by admin | Jun 20, 2024 | Christian, Poems by Women
A fish cannot drown in water,A bird does not fall in air.In the fire of creation,God doesn’t vanish:The fire brightens.Each creature God mademust live in its own true nature;How could I resist my nature,That lives for oneness with God?
by admin | Jun 9, 2024 | Hindu, Poems by Women
Unbreakable, O Lord,Is the loveThat binds me to You:Like a diamond,It breaks the hammer that strikes it.My heart goes into YouAs the polish goes into the gold.As the lotus lives in its water,I live in You.Like the birdThat gazes all nightAt the passing moon,I have...
by admin | Jun 1, 2024 | Poems by Women, Secular/Modern Era
In the middle of the night,My bedroom washed in moonlightAnd outsideThe faint hush-husingOf an ebbing tide,I see VenusClose toThe waning moon.I hear the bubbling hootOf a playful owl.Pierrot’s purrsRipple under my hand,And all this is bathedIn the scent of...
by admin | May 30, 2024 | Christian, Poems by Women
O moving force of Wisdom, encircling the wheel of the cosmos,Encompassing all that is, all that has life,in one vast circle.You have three wings: The first unfurls aloftin the highest heights.The second dips its way dripping sweat on the Earth.Over, under, and through...
by admin | May 27, 2024 | Hindu, Poems by Women
O infinite Consciousness,brimming with elixir,You live within my body,and I worship only You.I do not careif I die, take birth,or pass into some other state.These things are so ordinary now.
by admin | May 25, 2024 | Poems by Women, Secular/Modern Era
When I hear them callin the morning, beforeI am quite awake,my bed is already travelingthe daily rainbow,the arc toward evening;and the birds, leadingtheir own discreet livesof hunger and watchfulness,are with me all the way,always a little ahead of mein the...