by admin | Apr 17, 2023 | Christian, Poems by Women
All thingsare too smallto hold me,I am so vastIn the InfiniteI reachfor the UncreatedI havetouched it,it undoes mewider than wideEverything elseis too narrowYou know this well,you who are also there
by admin | Apr 12, 2023 | Poems by Women, Secular/Modern Era
Old Woman Census-taker,Death the Trickster,when you’re going along,don’t you meet my baby.Sniffing at newborns,smelling for the milk,find salt, find cornmeal,don’t find my milk.Anti-Mother of the world,People-Collector –on the beaches and...
by admin | Apr 7, 2023 | Poems by Women, Secular/Modern Era
Oh you are coming, coming, coming,How will hungry Time put by the hours till then? –But why does it anger my heart to long soFor one man out of the world of men?Oh I would live in myself onlyAnd build my life lightly and still as a dream –Are not my...
by admin | Apr 6, 2023 | Poems by Women, Secular/Modern Era
Sometimes the mountainis hidden from me in veilsof cloud, sometimesI am hidden from the mountainin veils of inattention, apathy, fatigue,when I forget or refuse to godown to the shore or a few yardsup the road, on a clear day,to reconfirmthat witnessing...
by admin | Apr 2, 2023 | Hindu, Poems by Women
The full moon day of Margazhi is hereWhat an auspicious day it is!O dear ornamented girls who thrive in Brindavana, overflowing with prosperityCome along, let us go bathe,Come along if you so desire.Narayana –The son of Nandagopa, whose sharp spear is readily so...
by admin | Mar 27, 2023 | Hindu, Poems by Women
Word, Thought, Kula and Akula cease to be there!Neither silence nor yogic postures gain you admission there;Neither Shiva, nor Shakti abide there!Whatever remains is That; this is the Lesson!