Dear Earth
Often I have felt that I must praise my worldFor what my eyes have seen these many years And what my heart has loved. And often I have tried to start my lines:"Dear Earth," I say, and then I pause To...
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Cast All Your Votes For Dancing
I know the voice of depression Still calls to you.I know those habits that can ruin your life still send their invitations.But you are with the Friend now And look so much stronger.You can stay that...
View ArticleA Song on the End of the World
On the day the world endsA bee circles a clover,A fisherman mends a glimmering net.Happy porpoises jump in the sea,By the rainspout young sparrows are playingAnd the snake is gold-skinned as it should...
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When I die, Give what’s left of me awayTo children And old me that wait to die.And if you need to cry,Cry for your brother Walking the street beside you.And when you need me, Put your arms Around...
View ArticleContemplation on No Coming, No Going
This body is not me.I am not limited by this body.I am life without boundaries.I have never been born,and I have never died.readingsBuddhismTransitions
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Karainya Metta Sutta, excerpt
Let none through anger or ill-willWish harm upon another.Even as a mother protects with her lifeHer child, her only child,So with a boundless heartShould one cherish all living beings;Radiating...
View ArticleMigrant
Stranger in your homeland and strangeramongst strangersmonth after month you labour and every dayis the same as yesterday.But for you also there comesthe happiest of daysThat in which you return...
View ArticleFor Those Who Have Died
‘Tis a fearful thingto lovewhat death can touch.To love, to hope, to dream,and oh, to lose.A thing for fools, this,love,but a holy thing,to love what death can touch.For your life has lived in me;Your...
View ArticleLet My Heart Be Open
For the times when I could have made peace with my neighbor but picked a quarrel, forgive me. And forgive me too for the times when I could have accepted with grace an offer of friendship, or...
View ArticleFinite Freedom
“A human is essentially 'finite freedom'; freedom not in the sense of indeterminacy but in the sense of being able to determine their self through decisions in the center of their being. A human as...
View ArticleDoubletake
Human beings suffer,they torture one another,they get hurt and get hard.No poem or play or songcan fully right a wronginflicted and endured.readings
View ArticleOtherwise
I got out of bedon two strong legs.It might have beenotherwise. I atecereal, sweetmilk, ripe, flawlesspeach. It mighthave been otherwise.I took the dog uphillto the birch wood.All morning I didthe work...
View ArticleIf You Practice Patience
If you practice patience, you become more patientIf you become more patient, you become quiterIf you become quieter, you become more awareIf you become more aware, you become more compassionateIf you...
View ArticleSonnet XCIV
If I die, survive me with such sheer force that you waken the furies of the pallid and the cold, from south to south lift your indelible eyes, from sun to sun dream through your singing mouth. I don’t...
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