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Dreamland. The subtle energies and alluring drives which unconsciously drive our waking life, and which we experience only passively in dreams, are here consciously mastered as a waking dream. Gabriella's voice rings with Hafiz's "bells of the travelling caravans." Gaz's drums and bells are a joyous chaos of heartbeats/energy currents/distractions. Divine music entrances the inner ear. We are novices in Love School, infinitely brighter and quicker than we ever imagined possible, but liable to explode into the hyper reaches of inner space, if our teacher and Guide wasn't keeping His Eye on us.

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Kas nadnist kih manzilgah-I-maqsud kujast
In qadar hast kih bang-jarasi miayad (Hafiz)
*Where the real dwelling of the Divine Beloved is, is not clear
Only that I hear the sound of bells (from the travelling caravans)”

Such celestial music! Are we dreaming, like those sleepwalkers?
Yes. But we’re awake. We are our dreams come true.
So- this is the uniform of my dreams?
Yes. Because you like to be in control!
But you like me in it?
You’re my dream girl!
Is that a bell or my heart ringing? Where are we? Oh, it’s a school! And you’re my dream teacher!
Let the lesson begin!

The divinest new teacher has come to our school.
In a swirling of stars, I eclipse every rule.

As his brilliant dark look unblinds my mind's eye
To his heart-piercing question, I glow like a fool.

I am deaf to the end of his first lesson bell;
All the bells in my heart are in tune with his call.

I’m as deaf to the world as love’s wonderstruck bell
Swung to heaven by Krishna and dying to fall.

I must hand him my pages of error and shame
With the angels a choir in my ears, high and cool.

Though you're dazed by my radiance: striking its chord
Is his liturgy ‘Love is the key to it all.’

I am deaf to the end of his first lesson bell;
All the bells in my heart are in tune with his call.

I’m as deaf to the world as love’s wonderstruck bell
Swung to heaven by Krishna and dying to fall.

To just drift through these corridors - echoing, bright -
Where his presence has lingered, is blissful, is cruel.

“Loving far-sighted Pupil, distracted, see Me.”
And his laser cuts straight to my heart, like a jewel.

I am deaf to the end of his first lesson bell;
All the bells in my heart are in tune with his call.

I’m as deaf to the world as love’s wonderstruck bell
Swung to heaven by Krishna and dying to fall.

© Gareth Calway 2016 published in the Sheriar Press volume http://garethcalway.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/6-degrees-of-separation-7-degrees-of.html

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from 6 Degrees Of Separation; 7 Degrees of Love (50th anniversary album), released January 31, 2019
Gabriella Tal - lead vocal, acoustic guitar
Gareth Calway - voices, backing vocals, drums and percussion
Picture is of Gabriella (and friends) at the feet of the Master in Mandali Hall in 1994.

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The Baba Lovers England, UK

The Baba Lovers are an Atlantic-transcending duo: English poet Gareth Calway and American singer-songwriter Gabriella Tal. The Beloved is Avatar Meher Baba, whose favourite poet was Hafiz and whose favourite poetic form the ghazal (a Persian love lyric). We met in India at the Meher Pilgrim Centre in Ahmednagar in 1994 and wrote a couple of songs. We reconnected online in 2016 and wrote an album. ... more

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