52 Writing Prompts from the Poems of Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore

Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore was a trailblazing Beat/Sufi poet whose work speaks simultaneously to the human – to love, sensuality, laughter, family, everyday life, grief, and death – and to the reader’s transcendent awareness, longing for the Real beyond material limitations. It is an achingly frank record of one man’s spiritual journey, a deeply personal prayer that (re)connects us to the universal through the specificity of his lived experience.

In life, Abdal-Hayy was a man of profound generosity and multidisciplinary creativity, who enthusiastically encouraged artists to express their wonder, joy, sorrow, curiosity and devotion through the mediums of their own cultures and times. It is in this spirit that these prompts have been prepared, offering glimpses of lightning brilliance to kindle your own literary light displays – no doubt just as unique and extraordinary.