by admin | Jul 8, 2024 | Buddhist, Poems by Women
a dandelionnow and then interruptingthe butterfly’s dream
by admin | Jul 8, 2024 | Poems by Women, Secular/Modern Era
You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesFor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your bodylove what it loves.Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.Meanwhile the world goes...
by admin | Jul 5, 2024 | Christian, Poems by Men
When in the soul of the serene discipleWith no more Fathers to imitatePoverty is a success,It is a small thing to say the roof is gone:He has not even a house.Stars, as well as friends,Are angry with the noble ruin.Saints depart in several directions.Be still:There is...
by admin | Jun 30, 2024 | Hindu, Poems by Men
The richwill make temples for Siva.What shall I,a poor man,do?My legs are pillars,the body the shrine,the head a cupolaof gold.Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers,things standing shall fall,but the moving ever shall stay.
by admin | Jun 26, 2024 | Buddhist, Poems by Men
Something dropped! It is no other thing;Right and left, there is nothing earthy:Rivers and mountains and the great earth,–In them all revealed is the Body of the Dharmaraja.
