by admin | Aug 7, 2024 | Buddhist, Poems by Men
When there is deep abundancethere is nowhere to abide.There is nowhere to restor grasp ontoand yet there is restThe sky abidesyet it never rests.Neither can we say thatthe sky is not always at rest.We talk about the skyas if it were somethingas if it actually exists...
by admin | Aug 6, 2024 | Buddhist, Poems by Men
A nightingale’s songBrings me out of a dream:The morning glows.
by admin | Aug 5, 2024 | Muslim/Sufi, Poems by Men
OnlyThe IlluminedOneWho keepsSeducing the formless into formHad the charm to win myHeart.Only a Perfect OneWho is alwaysLaughing at the wordTWOCan make you knowOfLove.
by admin | Aug 4, 2024 | Muslim/Sufi, Poems by Men
Lord, send me staggering with the wineOf Your love!Ring my feetWith the chains of Your slavery!Empty me of everything but Your loveAnd in it destroy and resurrect me!Any hunger You awakenCan only end in Feast!
by admin | Aug 3, 2024 | Poems by Men, Secular/Modern Era
You ask me how to pray to someone who is not.All I know is that prayer constructs a velvet bridgeAnd walking it we are aloft, as on a springboard,Above landscapes the color of ripe goldTransformed by a magic stopping of the sun.That bridge leads to the shore of...
by admin | Aug 2, 2024 | Hindu, Poems by Men
‘He had revenge on Death, for he died well,’A poet wrote in life’s far distant spring,Stumbling on truth. Death’s fabled heaven and hellAnd drearier prospect yet the new times bringOf a blank nothingness hedge like a ringThe seeming self whose...
