Spiritual Poetry Meetup Readings

There Is No Word for Goodbye – Mary TallMountain https://blog.stabenow.com/2015/11/27/poem-for-the-month/ Quote from Lahiri Mahasaya:  “Always remember that you belong to...

Broken Dreams – William Butler Yeats https://pickmeuppoetry.org/broken-dreams-by-william-butler-yeats/ Buoyancy – Jalaluddin Rumi https://rumidays.blogspot.com/2011/03/buoyancy.html Silent Friend of Many Distances – Rainer Maria...

Offering: First Rice – Heid Erdrich From When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through (ed....

Here are some links and readings from our gathering in honor of Thich Nhat Hanh after his passing on January...

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

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...

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....

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 –...

The Dead – Billy Collins https://wordsfortheyear.com/2015/10/31/the-dead-by-billy-collins-and-special-announcement/ I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great  - Stephen Spender https://thehurlyburly.blogspot.com/2007/11/i-think-continually-of-those-who-were.html Only...

Sonnets 29, 30, and 31 – William Shakespeare https://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/sonnets/sonnet_view.php?Sonnet=all&pleasewait=1&msg=pl Verses from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam “O Friend, for the...