Poetry & More

Totally conscious, and apropos of nothing, you come to me. Is someone here? I ask. The moon. The full moon...

Don’t Go Anywhere Without Me (Ghazal 2195) (Also titled: In the Arc of Your Mallet) – Jalaluddin Rumi (translated by...

We go through life trying to find harmony and balance, yet we often overlook the harmony and balance that are...

The Lost Poem My father carried a poem with him all through his internment in Cabanatuan prison camp in the...

Holy Spirit, giving life to all life, moving all creatures, root of all things, washing them clean, wiping out their...

When I Come Near the Red Peony Flower - Robert Bly https://beautywelove.blogspot.com/2010/02/when-i-come-near-red-peony-flower.html?m=0 Excerpt from Preface to All About Love: New...

What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly...

I dreamed I lived in Austin with legs like a sparrow and a hungry heart. I was looking for God...

A Noiseless Patient Spider – Walt Whitman https://whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/1891/poems/255 Meditation in Wyatt’s – Albert Huffstickler https://intrinsicheart.com/meditation-in-wyatts/ Finding a Teacher – W.S....

So much is implied in the word “takuhatsu.”  Traditionally, it’s the practice of monks going door to door with their...