Sekiso

The Spring Is Flowing Even Now

by Intrinsic Heart

January 13, 2021

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Don’t ask why the pine trees In the front garden Are gnarled and crooked. The straightness They were born with...

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- A Clear Midnight
- A Dark Wine So Potent
- A Heart Is Given
- A Note from Vincent van Gogh
- A Walk
- After Robert Bly's "The Third Body"
- All My Body Calls
- Allegro
- An Abyss of Light
- An Infinite Connection
- An Inner Richness
- Another Unity
- April 2022 Readings
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- Are You Omnipresent?
- Asymmetry Moves the World
- At the Shore of Silence
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- Awake in a House Wrapped in Sleep
- Bald Eagle
- Be Ahead of All Parting
- Be Melting Snow
- Beannacht / Blessing
- Behind All Words, the Unsayable Stands
- Behind the Lines: The Portal of Poetry
- Beloved Is Where We Begin
- Blessing at the Burning Bush
- Blessing for the Place Between
- Blessing the Body
- Blessing the Way
- Blessings
- Buddha in Glory
- Building Your Ship
- Buoyancy
- Bursts of Kindness and Compassion
- Bursts of Light and Fire
- Bursts of Resilience
- Bursts of Zen and Tao
- Cargo
- Celebrating Lunar New Year
- Clarity
- Come With Us
- Coming Home to Yourself
- Continue
- Dazzle of Day
- December 2021 Readings
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- December 2023 Readings
- Demonstrations
- Diamonds Are Borne
- Drink as Deep as You Can
- Each of Us Limitless
- Eagle Poem
- Eternity
- Expect the Unexpected
- Facing the Moon, There Is No End
- February 2022 Readings
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- For Those Who Have Far to Travel
- For When People Ask
- From the Mountain
- Gather the Fringes of Your Garment
- Giving Life to All Life
- Happy
- Having Come This Far
- Here, Always Here
- Hold Everything Dear
- How Each Day Is a Holy Place
- How Long Does It Take to Make the Woods?
- I Call to You From Time
- I Dreamed I Lived in Austin
- I Have Roads in Me
- I Live Now in a Sky-House
- I Love You
- I Need the Sea
- I Would Like to Describe
- Impermanence
- Important
- In Gratitude
- In the Point of Rest
- Inside This Clay Jug
- It Makes Sense to Me Now
- It Won’t Be the Way You Think
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- July 2021 Readings
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- Just Before Dawn
- Kindness
- Lakol Wicoun
- Lantern - Some Evening
- Late Feast
- Laundromat
- Leap Before You Look
- Leave Childhood
- Let Us Meet at the True Source
- Light and Fire
- Listen
- Magic
- Magritte, Hegel, and Where Do We Go From Here?
- March 2022 Readings
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- March 2024 Readings
- March 2025 Readings
- May 2022 Readings
- May 2023 Readings
- May 2024 Readings
- Meditation in Wyatt’s
- Much to Be Learned from a Rainstorm
- My Life Is Not This Steeply Sloping Hour
- My Secret Heart
- No Expectations, No Plans
- Nobodies and Somebodies: "Dishwashers and Other Forgotten Angels" by Albert Huffstickler
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- November 2022 Readings
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- November 2024 Readings
- October 2021 Readings
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- oh what is that beautiful thing that just happened?
- One Whisper of The Beloved
- Only When I Am Quiet and Do Not Speak
- Ordinary Beautiful
- Our Courageous Life
- Packing Up for Paradise
- Passing Through a Doorway
- Passover Remembered
- Presiding Over an Eclipse
- Primary Wonder
- Quiet
- Quite Beautiful Myself
- Readings from Bursts of Light and Fire Pop-Up Spiritual Poetry Meetup, July 30, 2022
- Readings from Special Thich Nhat Hanh Spiritual Poetry Meetup January 29, 2022
- Remember
- Rest Note
- Romanesque Arches
- September 2021 Readings
- September 2022 Readings
- September 2023 Readings
- September 2024 Readings
- Shoulders
- Silence
- Sing, Sing, Sing
- Solstice
- Some Say You're Lucky
- Song of a Man Who Has Come Through
- Sunday Morning
- Sunset
- Sweet Is the Oneness
- Sweetness, Always
- Table
- Takuhatsu - A Poem by Ryokan
- Thanks
- The Astonishing Reality of Things
- The Avowal
- The Beginning of Real Time
- The Birds Keep Saying I Love You
- The Bottom Is Pebbly With Stars
- The Cure
- The Fall
- The Flame That Burns Forever
- The Flowers Are Leaning In
- The Flute of Interior Time
- The Forest
- The Glass Between
- The Good News
- The Ground at Our Feet
- The Intrinsic Way
- The Lost Poem
- The Middle Way, Wherever We Are
- The Moon Shows the Way
- The Opening of Eyes
- The Platform of Tai Chi
- The Question
- The Sacred Mystery
- The Sea
- The Second Music
- The Seven of Pentacles
- The Spring Is Flowing Even Now
- The Unbroken
- The Visit of Love
- The Way
- The Way It Is
- The Whole Existence Consists of Light
- The Widening Sky
- The Winged Energy of Delight
- There But for the Grace
- There Is No Word for Goodbye
- Things I Didn't Know I Loved
- This Ball in My Pocket, Can You See How Priceless It Is?
- This Embodied Life - The Spirit Likes to Dress Up (with a poem by Mary Oliver)
- This Rain
- To Go Into a Forest Alone
- To Look at Any Thing
- Too Many Names
- Turning
- Two Poems by Lynn Ungar
- Two Poems by Rumi
- Two Poems for the New Year
- Under Ideal Conditions
- Underwater Excavation
- Unending Love
- Unison Benediction
- View from a Mountain
- Walking from Honduras
- Water's Prayer - A little rain, a little snow, love, trust, and beauty
- We Don't Know
- We Grow Accustomed to the Dark
- What Do Poems Do? And Is That Your Real Nose? And The Best Poem Ever.
- What I Must Tell Myself
- What the River Says, I Say
- What They Did Yesterday Afternoon
- What Time Is It? It Is By Every Star
- When I Am Among the Trees
- When I Am Among the Trees
- When Poetry Came to Me
- When You See Water
- Where Eternity Flows
- Where We Fail, Catch Hold Again, and Climb
- Who Says Words With My Mouth
- Who Understands Me But Me
- Why I Stay Up Late
- Would You Bow?
- Written on the Wall
- You Are That Freshness - Praise to the Emptiness
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