Spiritual Poetry Meetup Readings

Now Is the Month of Maying - Thomas Morley https://genius.com/Kings-singers-now-is-the-month-of-maying-lyrics  1 Corinthians 13:4-8 – From the Bible, New International Version...

Sea Fever – John Masefield https://www.nationalpoetrylibrary.org.uk/online-poetry/poems/sea-fever# Some Questions You Might Ask – Mary Oliver https://www.poeticous.com/mary-oliver/some-questions-you-might-ask Some Say You’re Lucky –...

Song of Uvavnuk – Uvavnuk https://sica-usa.org/news/uvavnuks-song-reynold-weissinger/ The Widening Sky – Edward Hirsch https://intrinsicheart.com/the-widening-sky/ Song of the Flower – Kahlil Gibran...

The Great Secret – Daniel Ladinsky writing as Hafiz https://www.poetseers.org/the-poetseers/hafiz/i-heard-god-laughing-hafiz/the-great-secret/ Ash Wednesday – Louis Untermeyer https://www.poeticous.com/louis-untermeyer/ash-wednesday-shut-out-the-light-or-let-it-filter-through The Vegetables – Daniel...

Polish Into Gold – Mirabai (translated by Robert Bly) https://www.wisdomportal.com/PoetryAnthology2/Mirabai-Anthology.html (scroll down to the third poem from the end) When...

Blessing the Marriage (Ghazal 2667)– Jalaluddin Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks http://sunlightgroup.blogspot.com/2007/11/sunlight-this-marriage-ghazal-2667.html Marriage/We Open a Door - Philomene Long (former...

Matthew 25:31-46 – Malcolm Guite https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2021/19-november/comment/columnists/malcolm-guite-poet-s-corner What Katy Did (Excerpt – Stanzas 3 & 4) – Susan Coolidge (pen name...

The Sun Never Says – Daniel Ladinsky writing as Hafiz https://www.poetseers.org/the-poetseers/hafiz/hafiz-poems-the-gift/hafizdl/the-sun-never-says/ Amores (VIII) (aka “The Glory Is Fallen Out Of“)...

I’m Raising Children – V. Kali Nurigan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZMmGY_y7n0  (The poem begins at 1:25) Strange Fruit – Abel Meeropol, aka Lewis...

Quote from The Music Shop – Rachel Joyce “The way to heaven is not through the clouds. It's in the...