Spiritual Poetry Meetup Readings

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...

A Voice – Rawle Iam James Music of the Hours – Keelan Sri Ramakrishna – Excerpt from description of an...

Beloved Is Where We Begin – Jan Richardson https://www.afirstsip.com/2021/02/beloved-is-where-we-begin.html Immersion – Denise Levertov https://www.jonathanbyram.com/Immersion Quote from Ram Dass:  “See everything...

“The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth” – African Proverb...

Packing Up for Paradise – James Broughton https://intrinsicheart.com/packing-up-for-paradise/ “A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home”...

The beginning of the universe is the mother of all things – Lao Tzu, from Tao Te Ching, Verse 52...