by admin | Aug 5, 2024 | Muslim/Sufi, Poems by Men
OnlyThe IlluminedOneWho keepsSeducing the formless into formHad the charm to win myHeart.Only a Perfect OneWho is alwaysLaughing at the wordTWOCan make you knowOfLove.
by admin | Aug 4, 2024 | Christian, Poems by Women
A dove gazed inthrough a latticed window:there balm rained down on her face,raining from lucentMaximin.The heat of the sun blazed outto irradiate the dark:a bud burst open, jewel-like,in the temple of the heart(limpid and kind his heart).A tower of cypress is he,and...
by admin | Aug 4, 2024 | Muslim/Sufi, Poems by Men
Lord, send me staggering with the wineOf Your love!Ring my feetWith the chains of Your slavery!Empty me of everything but Your loveAnd in it destroy and resurrect me!Any hunger You awakenCan only end in Feast!
by admin | Aug 3, 2024 | Poems by Men, Secular/Modern Era
You ask me how to pray to someone who is not.All I know is that prayer constructs a velvet bridgeAnd walking it we are aloft, as on a springboard,Above landscapes the color of ripe goldTransformed by a magic stopping of the sun.That bridge leads to the shore of...
by admin | Aug 2, 2024 | Hindu, Poems by Men
‘He had revenge on Death, for he died well,’A poet wrote in life’s far distant spring,Stumbling on truth. Death’s fabled heaven and hellAnd drearier prospect yet the new times bringOf a blank nothingness hedge like a ringThe seeming self whose...
