Fall Toward the Glassblower’s Breath (aka “The New Rule”) – Jalaluddin Rumi
https://thepoetryplace.wordpress.com/2016/01/30/the-new-rule-by-rumi/
Within the Body You Are Wearing – Robert K. Hall
https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/words-of-wonder/within-the-body-you-are-wearing-robert-k-hall/
Drink Your Tea – Thich Nhat Hanh
https://www.poetseers.org/spiritual-and-devotional-poets/buddhist/thich-nhat-hahn/thichp/drink-your-tea/
Love After Love – Derek Walcott
https://poems.com/poem/love-after-love/
Cold Rain – Graham Nash
https://genius.com/Crosby-stills-and-nash-cold-rain-lyrics
The Journey Starts Here – Jalaluddin Rumi
https://dailyrumi.livejournal.com/241145.html
Reunion – Albert Huffstickler
https://intrinsicheart.com/coming-home-to-yourself/
Issa’s Cricket – Kobayashi Issa (translated by Jane Hirshfield)
https://www.jannieedwards.ca/post/for-the-love-of-issa-s-haiku
An article by Jane Hirshfield that includes this poem and a brief commentary, along with 21 other spiritual poems, can be found at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/68606/spiritual-poetry
What I Must Tell Myself – David Whyte
https://www.nahalatshalom.org/ss-05008-2020poem/davidwhyte
The Present – W.S. Merwin
https://merwinconservancy.org/poems/the-present-by-w-s-merwin/
After each Spiritual Poetry Meetup we generally hang out a little online and chat without more readings, but in honor of Nikki Giovanni, who died on December 9, 2024, we read two of Nikki Giovanni’s poems afterwards: “Balances” https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/balances and “A Journey” https://poets.org/poem/journey/print.” Our thanks to Nikki Giovanni for all she gave to us.
Art Credit: Japanese Tea Ceremony
https://littleprayertea.com/blogs/our-blog/hosting-a-traditional-japanese-tea-ceremony-a-step-by-step-guide
