by admin | May 23, 2024 | Buddhist, Poems by Men
In my middle years I love the Daoand by Deep South Mountain I make my home.When happy I go alone into the mountains.Only I understand this joy.I walk until the water ends, and sitwaiting for the hour when clouds rise.If I happen to meet an old woodcutter,I chat with...
by admin | May 22, 2024 | Muslim/Sufi, Poems by Men
Though burning has become an old habit for this heart,I dare not think of Your company.What would a moth meanto the fire that burns worlds?
by admin | May 21, 2024 | Judaism, Poems by Men
Before I was, Thy mercy came to me,inverting void and being Thou madest me to be.Who wrought my image, poured my essenceinto the crucible and gave me shape?Who breathed a soul into meopened the belly of Sheol and took me out?Who led me from childhood until here?Who...
by admin | May 19, 2024 | Poems by Men, Secular/Modern Era
In the tides of life and actionI rise and descendand fling the shuttle back and forth.The cradle and the grave,a perennial sea,a flickering fabric,a glowing life,I toil at the whirring loom of timeand weave the godhead’s living vesture.
by admin | May 18, 2024 | Muslim/Sufi, Poems by Men
mother, i may have been a naughty child,but i am your child nevertheless!you own the world, mother, you are the queen of the world,and look at me, i go about in the habit of a beggar.you are bent on neglecting me,but i love you anyway, it is you, only you that i call...
by admin | May 17, 2024 | Buddhist, Poems by Men
To what shallI liken the world?Moonlight, reflectedIn dewdrops,Shaken from a crane’s bill.
