The Winged Energy of Delight
Yesterday before bedtime I read Rumi’s poem “The Window Within the Soul.” I gave into the temptation to pull just...
The Birds Keep Saying I Love You
I cannot do my work Because the birds keep saying I love you They rustle the leaves, they flutter and...
March 2022 Readings
Broken Dreams – William Butler Yeats https://pickmeuppoetry.org/broken-dreams-by-william-butler-yeats/ Buoyancy – Jalaluddin Rumi https://rumidays.blogspot.com/2011/03/buoyancy.html Silent Friend of Many Distances – Rainer Maria...
What They Did Yesterday Afternoon
they set my aunt’s house on fire i cried the way women on tv do folding at the middle like...
The Personal Is the Universal
Whenever we care passionately about something, it’s always personal. That intensity of feeling has a deeply personal quality. It has...
Two Poems by Rumi
Roses Underfoot If anyone asks you to say who you are, say without hesitation, soul within soul within soul. There's...
Drink as Deep as You Can
In every moment there is something to look at, something to feel, something to taste—a flavor in the atmosphere, a...
February 2022 Readings
Offering: First Rice – Heid Erdrich From When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through (ed....
The Visit of Love
Love, I didn't expect you so late: the lamps were extinguished by my tears. Only an ember shone in the...
Unending Love
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times… In life after life, in age after age, forever....
There is meaning, intrinsic meaning, in every moment.