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Mad for Poetry

  If you enjoy this blog, why not receive your spiritual boost for the week in your inbox! Click here to join The Way of the River comrades who receive Reflections, my weekly love letter! Beloved- This week, I am mad for poetry. Typo: “made for poetry,” and perhaps that too. I met Maya Angelou when […]

Poetry Makes Nothing Happen?

I wrote a post in Facebook yesterday out of despair and a sense of deep longing for truth, beauty, goodness, and most of all, direction. I wrote about how terrible things are right now in the United States. How much privilege we have, many of us, and how we (mostly) stand (mostly) idly by (mostly). […]

Poem of the Day: the Real

I have heard the Sufis sing of Allah – God – the One – Oneness – the Real. I love this Oneness, the Real. Oneness with Its 99 names, none of which can capture, contain or comprehend You. O Universe Whoe lives within and beyond and through us, As the soft-furred bunny asked, How do […]

Morning meditation: The Forgetful Ones.

We are the Forgetful Ones. We are the Ones Who Fail to Remember. To remember You, great Source From Whom all things proceed, To which all return in the the fullness of time; To remember one another, The suffering, hunger, and Madness Surrounding us always like air. Madness of over and above, Trampled and below. […]

Are We Grieving? (thoughts on some poetry)

There are two poems for fall that I love best. One, “Ode to the West Wind,” I’ve written about in Reflections. The other is by Gerard Manley Hopkins, one of my all-time favorite poems. (Check out “Pied Beauty” for sheer glory of words.) The Hopkins is called “Spring and Fall,” and has the dedication, “to […]

Watched By Every Human Love

from “Lullaby” by W.H. Auden Beauty, midnight, vision dies: Let the winds of dawn that blow Softly round your dreaming head Such a day of sweetness show Eye and knocking heart may bless, Find the mortal world enough; Noons of dryness see you fed By the involuntary powers, Nights of insult let you pass Watched […]

All That Has Never Yet Been Spoken

My heart needed this poem today. Perhaps yours does too? “I Believe in All That Has Never Yet Been Spoken” Rainer Maria Rilke English version by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy I believe in all that has never yet been spoken. I want to free what waits within me so that what no one has […]