by admin | Apr 30, 2024 | Poems by Men, Secular/Modern Era
Every tan rolling meadow will turn into housingFreeways are clogged all dayAcademies packed with scholars writing papersCity people lean and darkThis land most realAs its western-tending golden slopesAnd bird-entangled central valley swampsSea-lion, urchin...
by admin | Apr 29, 2024 | Buddhist, Poems by Men
At Yahiko Mountainyou can seeboth flowersand children bloom.
by admin | Apr 28, 2024 | Muslim/Sufi, Poems by Men
Ah, what was there in that light-giving candle that it set fire to the heart, and snatched the heart away?You who have set fire to my heart, I am consumed, O friend; come quickly, quickly!The form of the heart is not a created form, for the beauty of God manifested...
by admin | Apr 27, 2024 | Poems by Men, Secular/Modern Era
Lie back daughter, let your headbe tipped back in the cup of my hand.Gently, and I will hold you. Spreadyour arms wide, lie out on the streamand look high at the gulls. A dead-man’s float is face down. You will diveand swim soon enough where this tidewaterebbs...
by admin | Apr 27, 2024 | Poems, Poems by Men, Secular/Modern Era
How long does it take to make the woods?As long as it takes to make the world.The woods is present as the world is, the presenceof all its past and of all its time to come.It is always finished, it is always being made, the actof its making forever greater than the...
by admin | Apr 26, 2024 | Muslim/Sufi, Poems by Men
IDo notWant to step so quicklyOver a beautiful line on God’s palmAs I move through the earth’sMarketplaceToday.I do not want to touch any object in this worldWithout my eyes testifying to the truthThat everything isMy Beloved.Something has happenedTo my...
