Poetry & More

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...

What is this longing, this feeling that there is something to be found, something that is more important than anything,...

Soup and Salad When you mix ingredients in a bowl, it’s a salad. When you bake them, it’s a casserole....

Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of...

This magnificent poem by Nâzim Hikmet, “Things I Didn’t Know I Loved,” is all the more amazing when you realize...

For the Asking – Denise Levertov https://beautywelove.blogspot.com/2019/05/for-asking.html Quotes from Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Freeman Dyson Mary –...