by admin | Jul 8, 2024 | Poems by Women, Secular/Modern Era
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...
by admin | Jun 25, 2024 | Poems by Men, Secular/Modern Era
When the world comes clear,changeless in its changingand everywhere revealed,the sun might be lightinga rendered wall inscribedby winter tree’s shadow;when the world comes clearlight might seem to shiftto show a morning free of any other time;when the world...
by admin | Jun 19, 2024 | Poems by Men, Secular/Modern Era
Does Time, as it passes, really destroy?It may rip the fortress from its rock;but can this heart, that belongs to God,be torn from Him by circumstance?Are we as fearfully fragileas fate would have us believe?Can we ever be severedfrom childhood’s deep...
by admin | Jun 18, 2024 | Poems by Men, Secular/Modern Era
Let others probe the mystery if they can.Time-harried prisoners of Shall and Will –The right thing happens to the happy man.The bird flies out, the bird flies back again:The hill becomes the valley, and is still;Let others delve that mystery if they can.God...
by admin | Jun 14, 2024 | Poems by Men, Secular/Modern Era
(To remind myself)iMake a place to sit down.Sit down. Be quiet.You must depend uponaffection, reading, knowledge,skill — more of eachthan you have — inspiration,work, growing older, patience,for patience joins timeto eternity. Any readerswho like your...
by admin | Jun 10, 2024 | Poems by Men, Secular/Modern Era
(After Ansari)Who walks on wateris no better than a straw.Who flies in the airis no better than a fly.Be without equal:become nothing.Find the real selfwhere no self exists.The heart resignsand the eye seesnothing but God.
