by admin | Aug 6, 2023 | Poems by Women
She silently streams towards me,slipping between bone and skin,cracking me open.She comes unbidden, unsought for and unbound.She comes, the great Unraveller,and in an instanceburns meutterlyto the ground.- from Agape: Poems of Love and AwakeningA copy of Agape: Poems...
by admin | Aug 3, 2023 | Poems by Women, Secular/Modern Era
We have a soul at times.No one’s got it non-stop,for keeps.Day after day,year after yearmay pass without it.Sometimesit will settle for awhileonly in childhood’s fears and raptures.Sometimes only in astonishmentthat we are old.It rarely lends a handin...
by admin | Jul 25, 2023 | Poems by Women, Secular/Modern Era
If Blame be my side — forfeit Me –But doom me not to forfeit Thee –To forfeit Thee? The very nameIs sentence from Belief — and Home —
by admin | Jul 22, 2023 | Hindu, Poems by Women
Listen, my friend, this road is the heart opening,Kissing his feet, resistance broken, tears all night.If we could reach the Lord through immersion in water,I would have asked to be born a fish in this life.If we could reach Him through nothing but berries and wild...
by admin | Jul 17, 2023 | Muslim/Sufi, Poems by Women
How can I see the splendor of the moonIf his face shines over my heart,Flaming like the sun?The Turks in his eyes charge through my soul,While untrue curling hairDefeats faith.Yet if he lifted the veil from his face,The world would be undone,The universe astounded.He...
by admin | Jul 15, 2023 | Poems by Women, Secular/Modern Era
We, this people, on a small and lonely planetTraveling through casual spacePast aloof stars, across the way of indifferent sunsTo a destination where all signs tell usIt is possible and imperative that we learnA brave and startling truthAnd when we come to itTo the...
