by admin | Apr 19, 2024 | Poems by Women, Secular/Modern Era
We die,Welcoming Bluebeards to our darkening closets,Stranglers to our outstretched necks,Stranglers, who neither care norcare to know thatDEATH IS INTERNAL.We pray,Savoring sweet the teethed lies,Bellying the grounds before alien gods,Gods, who neither know norwish...
by admin | Apr 9, 2024 | Poems by Women, Secular/Modern Era
You may thinkthat first lit flamewas the ultimate blaze,the holy fireentered at last.What do you know of furnaces?This is a sun that returnsagain and again, refining, igniting,pouring your spiritthrough a cloth of delicate golduntil all dross is takenand you are sweet...
by admin | Apr 3, 2024 | Hindu, Poems by Women
Just for a moment, flowers appearon the empty, nearly-spring tree.Just for a second, windthrough the wild thicket thorns.Self inside self, You are nothing but me.Self inside self, I am only You.What we are togetherwill never die.The why and how of this?What does it...
by admin | Mar 31, 2024 | Hindu, Poems by Women
I, Lalla, willingly entered through the garden-gate,There, O Joy! I found Siva united with Sakti;There and then I got absorbed drinking at the Lake of Nectar.Immune to harm am I, dead as I am to the world, though still alive.
by admin | Mar 27, 2024 | Poems by Women, Secular/Modern Era
as if drawing hislost leaves backup to nakedbranchesthe maple’s quietsilhouette pulls orangesilk from a wakinghorizonpauses herewith you on the cuspof dawn then with a singlecardinal burstsinto a fire of song …
by admin | Mar 17, 2024 | Muslim/Sufi, Poems by Women
A world there is for those in love with mines of precious stones,But bards select a different world as setting for their thrones.The bird who eats love’s magic grain lives on another plane –His nest beyond both worlds, ignoring riches, scorning fame.
