The Riverside Meadow, the Blue Lake, The Sweetness
A Meadow It was a riverside meadow, lush, from before the hay harvest, On an immaculate day in the sun...
I AND NOT-I
Only When I Am Quiet and Do Not Speak Only when I am quiet for a long time and do...
Silence
The reality that is present to us and in us: call it Being...Silence. And the simple fact that by being...
Perspective
Perspective And the mountains rose and eroded completely and the great sea flooded all and the great sea left and...
A Blessing Poem
A Blessing Poem The peace of loneliness be with you The peace of the far-from-home The peace of small things...
Beyond Cartography
Boulder Mountain We ask How did I end up here? or wonder why we don’t fit in our family. Later...
Sabbaths – VII
Sabbaths - VII Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this...
It’s the Words That Sing, They Soar and Descend
THE WORDS THEY SING It's the words that sing, they soar and descend. . . . I bow to them...
The Ordinary Miracles Begin
Today The ordinary miracles begin. Somewhere a signal arrives: “Now,” and the rays come down. A tomorrow has come. Open your...
I Said to My Soul, Be Still
Four Quartets, East Coker (excerpt) I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be...
There is meaning, intrinsic meaning, in every moment.