DISTRUSTING SHALLOW TRITE SPIRITUAL WORDS IS UNIVERSAL!!!

I just enjoyed a kind of cosmic chuckle.
I stumbled across some writing of the Persian poet Hafiz who was born around 1325.
He wrote ecstatic love poetry to the divine and had a wicked sense of humor.
(Never trust anyone with a spiritual bent than isn't funny.)
His writing is revered in Iran/Persia and quoted like proverbs.

Here he is making fun of "would be" spiritual poets.

A POETRY WORKSHOP

If I ever gave a poetry workshop,
here are some key factors I would elaborate upon
hoping to give you your money's worth.

---Watch out for the word "flower"
It can be lethal.

---Be equally on your guard for the word "rainbow"
and its (for the most part) assault on serious literature

---And the words "Butterfly" or "Star", I love them,
but I think they are best left off the page unless you
are desperate, and/or have not yet reached puberty.

---That about rounds out the general holy trinity of "don'ts"
in poems, from my perspective

---And if you every succumb to using the work "Flower, Rainbow,
or the B or S word more than twice in one book, unless it very
cleverly done----well

Well, you should really invite someone to shoot you!

Hafiz

And from my prayer/poems soon to be a book:

I can't stand 
High faulting love language
Or spiritual language
You can't stand on
I want gritty fierce earthy words
For my prayer

me