by admin | Aug 25, 2024 | Poems by Women, Secular/Modern Era
We are children of our era;our era is political.All affairs, day and night,yours, ours, theirs,are political affairs.Like it or not,your genes have a political past,your skin a political cast,your eyes a political aspect.What you say has a resonance;what you are...
by admin | Aug 24, 2024 | Muslim/Sufi, Poems by Men
Tell me, O Swan, your ancient tale.From what land do you come, O Swan? to what shore will you fly?Where would you take your rest, O Swan, and what do you seek?Even this morning, O Swan, awake, arise, follow me!There is a land where no doubt nor sorrow have rule: where...
by admin | Aug 22, 2024 | Muslim/Sufi, Poems by Men
Oh Beloved Master, you are the Emperor!I am eternally grateful to you.If I had a hundred thousand lives –I would sacrifice every one to them at your feet.You drowned me in the Eternal Ocean of Onenessand transformed me into an Ocean like yourself.In the...
by admin | Aug 19, 2024 | Hindu, Poems by Men
In whom longing for the Beloved hath taken abode,Every moment his body becometh feeble and enervated.A stream of tears constantly flows from his eyes;The pangs of pain ceaselessly smart his body and mind.Like rivers in Sawan and Bhadon, overflows the stream of my...
by admin | Aug 14, 2024 | Muslim/Sufi, Poems by Men
Selfhood can demolish the magic of this world;But our belief in The One is not comprehended by all.Have a seer’s eye, and light will dawn on thee;As a river and its waves cannot remain apart.The light of God and knowledge are not in rivalry,But so the pulpit...
by admin | Aug 13, 2024 | Poems by Women, Secular/Modern Era
Nature and God — I neither knewYet Both so well knew meThey startled, like ExecutorsOf My identity.Yet Neither told — that I could learn –My Secret as secureAs Herschel’s private interestOr Mercury’s affair —
