by admin | Feb 1, 2024 | Poems by Women, Secular/Modern Era
In Sung China,two monks friends for sixty yearswatched the geese pass.Where are they going?one tested the other, who couldn’t say.That moment’s silence continues.No one will study their friendshipin the koan-books of insight.No one will remember their...
by admin | Jan 28, 2024 | Christian, Poems by Women
I am Yours and born of You,What do You want of me?Majestic Sovereign,Unending wisdom,Kindness pleasing to my soul;God sublime, one Being Good,Behold this one so vile.Singing of her love to you:What do You want of me?Yours, you made me,Yours, you saved me,Yours, you...
by admin | Jan 27, 2024 | Poems by Women, Secular/Modern Era
You keep waiting for something to happen,the thing that lifts you out of yourself,catapults you into doing all the things you’ve put offthe great things you’re meant to do in your life,but somehow never quite get to.You keep waiting for the planets to...
by admin | Jan 15, 2024 | Poems, Poems by Women, Secular/Modern Era
Are ligneous, muscular, chemical.Wear birch-colored feathers,green tunnels of horse-tail reed.Wear calcified spirals, Fibonaccian spheres.Are edible; are glassy; are clay; blue schist.Can be burned as tallow, as coal,can be skinned for garnets, for shoes.Cast shadows...
by admin | Jan 13, 2024 | Poems by Women, Secular/Modern Era
Me from Myself — to banish –Had I Art –Impregnable my FortressUnto All Heart –But since Myself — assault Me –How have I peaceExcept by subjugatingConsciousness?And since We’re mutual MonarchHow this beExcept by Abdication...
by admin | Jan 13, 2024 | Poems by Women, Secular/Modern Era
Ripeness iswhat falls away with ease.Not only the heavy apple,the pear,but also the dried brown strandsof autumn iris from their core.To let your bodylove this worldthat gave itself to your carein all of its ripeness,with ease,and will take itself from youin equal...
