The moon is a sow
and grunts in my throat
Her great shining shines through me
so the mud of my hollow gleams
and breaks in silver bubb
For the small things – Thankfulness?
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Praises
I praise those things I always take for granted:-
The tap my sister turns on for my bath
Every time I stay, the safety pin
Words?
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Oranges
Be careful of words,
even the miraculous ones.
For the miraculous we do our best,
sometimes they swarm like insects
and lea
dahlia
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They brought me a quilled, yellow dahlia,
Opulent, flaunting.
Round gold
Flung out of a pale green stalk.
Round, ripe gold
Of maturity,
Meti
petals
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somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
Let us return?
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ultimate blue
Let us return to imperfection's school.
No longer wandering after Plato's ghost,
Seeking the garden where all fruit i
reflected
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Love
there is enough magic here
inside this one word
to change our world forever
mountain snow lying
across life's pasture a
s
Where everything is Music
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Don't worry about saving these songs,
And if one of our instruments breaks,
It doesn't matter.
We have fallen,
We have fallen in
Feast on your life !
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Love after Love
The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will
Love – always Love?
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eyes
Love is the cure.
Your pain will keep giving birth to more pain.
Just let your eyes breathe out love
as easily as a flower breath
Long Dark Days
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fall, leaves, fall
Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
Lengthen night and shorten day;
Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn
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The beautiful changes
The beautiful changes as a forest is changed
By a chameleon's tuning his skin to it;
As a mantis, arranged
On a green le
New Books on Poetry
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Making Nothing Happen
Five Poets Explore Faith and Spirituality
Gavin D'Costa, University of Bristol, UK, Elean
New Year Resolution: Silence and Reflection
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cushion
it's possible to sit
in meditation
until the cushion is
worn flat
and never know
the thing that is.
let me tell you
about that th
New Year Resolutions : Dig deeper into God
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a tree
God
is a tree said Kabir
a tree in the forest; when the woodsmen come
to cut Him down
He will not defend Himself
New Year Resolution: Embrace Change
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hammered gold and gold enamelling
An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, a
New Year resolution: Follow the heart
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make friends with fire I look at my heart, such as it is, so much lower than what language can do;
New Year resolutions : attention…..
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The métier of blossoming
If humans could be
that intensely whole, undistracted, unhurried,
swift from sheer
unswerving impetus! If we c
Yellow
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A yellow flower
(Light and spirit)
Sings by itself
For nobody.
A golden spirit
(Light and emptiness)
Sings without a w
here’s to opening and upward
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here’s to opening and upward, to leaf and to sap
and to your(in my arms flowering so new)
self whose eyes smell of the sound of rain
and