by admin | Feb 23, 2024 | Poems by Women, Secular/Modern Era
Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelousto be understood.How grass can be nourishing in themouths of the lambs.How rivers and stones are foreverin allegiance with gravitywhile we ourselves dream of rising.How two hands touch and the bondswill never be broken.How...
by admin | Feb 20, 2024 | Hindu, Poems by Women
Day will be erased in night.The ground’s surface will extend outward.The new moon will be swallowedin eclipse, and the mind in meditationwill be completely absorbedby the Void inside it.
by admin | Feb 19, 2024 | Poems by Women, Secular/Modern Era
Yesterday, before dawnI was crucified again.The iron spikes were thoughtsbiting soft flesh.The toothache of fear, the panic-bell clangin my skull,the Judas kiss of self-betrayal.When the death bird swooped into peck loosethe string bag of my beliefs–everything...
by admin | Feb 17, 2024 | Poems by Women, Secular/Modern Era
We, unaccustomed to courageexiles from delight,live coiled in shells of lonelinessuntil love leaves its high holy templeand comes into our sightto liberate us into life.Love arrivesand in its train come ecstasiesold memories of pleasureancient histories of pain.Yet if...
by admin | Feb 16, 2024 | Christian, Poems by Women
The universe does notrevolve around you.The stars and planets spinningthrough the ballroom of spacedance with one anotherquite outside of your small life.You cannot hold gravityor seasons; even air and waterinevitably evade your grasp.Why not, then, let go?You could...
by admin | Feb 15, 2024 | Christian, Poems by Women
You who would read this book,If you indeed wish to grasp it,Think about what you say,For it is very difficult to comprehend;Humility, who is keeper of the treasury ofKnowledgeAnd the mother of the other Virtues,Must overtake you.Theologians and other clerks,You will...
