Courtney Lum

I actually found Sufi poetry to be quite beautiful and interesting to read. I found the language and the imagery created in the poetry to be simple, yet truly beautiful. I liked how the poems were in reference to religious views of love, life, and death, and yet the religious views were not imposed and thrown upon the reader as a means of spreading their religion and converting new followers. The simple imagery, especially of that of death, is a huge theme in many of these poems, but death is not something that is feared, but almost revered in the poems. The poems make death sound natural and beautiful.