Come Have a Drink

Why all this grinning?See the moonThere in the sky…Horses running without riders…Gates opening by themselvesThere is somethingGoing on hereWhich you can’t seeCome have a drinkIt won’t kill you!Well…That’s not completely true

Is anyone there

Is anyone thereif soare you realeither way are youone or severalif the latterare you all at onceor do youtake turns not answeringis your answerthe question itselfsurviving the askingwithout endwhose question is ithow does it beginwhere does it come fromhow did it...

Wild Geese

You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesFor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your bodylove what it loves.Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.Meanwhile the world goes...

When in the soul of the serene disciple

When in the soul of the serene discipleWith no more Fathers to imitatePoverty is a success,It is a small thing to say the roof is gone:He has not even a house.Stars, as well as friends,Are angry with the noble ruin.Saints depart in several directions.Be still:There is...

The Temple and the Body

The richwill make temples for Siva.What shall I,a poor man,do?My legs are pillars,the body the shrine,the head a cupolaof gold.Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers,things standing shall fall,but the moving ever shall stay.