Issa’s Cricket – Kobayashi Issa (translated by Jane Hirshfield)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48702/on-a-branch-
In Blackwater Woods – Mary Oliver
https://lifeonthecutoff.wordpress.com/2011/10/29/in-backwater-woods-mary-oliver/
Courage – Anne Sexton
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8505443-Courage-by-Anne-Sexton
Box – Joy Harjo
https://intrinsicheart.com/bursts-of-kindness-and-compassion/ (scroll to second item on page)
The only problem with Haiku – Roger McGough
https://evanstonpubliclibrary.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/national-poetry-month-april-7th/
On Prayer – Czeslaw Milosz (translated by Robert Hass)
https://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/Poets/M/MiloszCzesla/OnPrayer/index.html
The Heart Sutra
Here are links to two translations:
http://www.kwanumeurope.org/dlfiles/chants/EN/EN_heart.pdf
https://thebuddhistcentre.com/system/files/groups/files/heart_sutra.pdf
(A translation given for the mantra in the last lines of the Heart Sutra is:
“Gone, gone, gone beyond, altogether gone, Oh what awakening!”)
Annunciation (aka “Even If I Don’t See It Again”) – Marie Howe
https://onbeing.org/poetry/annunciation/
There Is Some Kiss We Want – Jalaluddin Rumi
https://www.worldprayers.org/archive/prayers/celebrations/there_is_some_kiss.html
Inside This Clay Jug – Kabir
https://intrinsicheart.com/inside-this-clay-jug/
