About poetry commentary --
My observations on these poems should not be read as the single, absolute meaning. A poem, like a dream, has layers of meaning -- and that meaning can shift over time and from differing perspectives. My commentary is offered in order to suggest a starting point for you to begin your own exploration into the poem's meaning. Even if my explanation feels right on the mark, please don't stop there. We must discover each poem's meaning for ourselves; otherwise the poem and its explanation remain largely trapped in the intellect. Sacred poetry is transformative poetry. Until we feel a poem working its alchemy on our own awareness, we haven't discovered its heart...
~ Ivan
| Abhishiktananda, Swami (Le Saux, Henri) Arunachala is a symbol |
| Abhishiktananda, Swami (Le Saux, Henri) Return within |
| Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said A pious one with a hundred beads on your rosary |
| Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said Beg for Love |
| Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said Detached You are, even from your being |
| Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said If you do not give up the crowds |
| Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said If you keep seeking the jewel of understanding |
| Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said Love came |
| Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said Love came and emptied me of self |
| Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said Rise early at dawn, when our storytelling begins |
| Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said Sorrow looted this heart |
| Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said The day Love was illumined |
| Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said The sum total of our life is a breath |
| Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said Though burning has become an old habit for this heart |
| Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said When the desire for the Friend became real |
| Abulafia, Rabbi Abraham A Holy Tabernacle in the Heart (from Life of the Future World) |
| Abulafia, Rabbi Abraham Circles 4 (from Life of the Future World) |
| Abulafia, Rabbi Abraham Their mystery is (from Life of the Future World) |
| Adyashanti So Cheap |
| AE (Russell, George William) Star Teachers |
| AE (Russell, George William) The Place of Rest |
| Akha Where there is no sense of the world |
| Akhmatova, Anna A land not mine, still |
| al-Alawi, Ahmad Layla |
| Alighieri, Dante The love of God, unutterable and perfect |
| Allama Prabhu If it rains fire |
| Allama Prabhu Light |
| Allama Prabhu Looking for your light |
| Ammons, A. R. An Improvisation for Angular Momentum |
| Ammons, A. R. Eyesight |
| Ammons, A. R. Identity |
| Ammons, A. R. Next to Nothing |
| Ammons, A. R. Poetics |
| Ammons, A. R. Still |
| Angelou, Maya A Brave and Startling Truth |
| Angelou, Maya On the Pulse of Morning |
| Angelou, Maya Phenomenal Woman |
| Angelou, Maya Seek patience |
| Ansari, Khwaja Abdullah Give Me |
| Arabi, Muhyiddin ibn My heart wears all forms |
| Arabi, Muhyiddin ibn When my Beloved appears |
| Arabi, Muhyiddin ibn While the sun's eye rules my sight |
| Arapaho (Anonymous) Arapaho Ghost Dance Songs |
| Attar, Farid ud-Din A dervish in ecstasy |
| Attar, Farid ud-Din A slave's freedom |
| Attar, Farid ud-Din Invocation |
| Attar, Farid ud-Din Looking for your own face |
| Attar, Farid ud-Din Mysticism |
| Attar, Farid ud-Din The angels have bowed down to you and drowned |
| Attar, Farid ud-Din The Dullard Sage |
| Attar, Farid ud-Din The Lover |
| Attar, Farid ud-Din The moths and the flame |
| Attar, Farid ud-Din The Nightingale |
| Attar, Farid ud-Din The peacock's excuse |
| Attar, Farid ud-Din The pilgrim sees no form but His and knows |
| Attar, Farid ud-Din The Simurgh |
| Aurobindo The Word of The Silence |
| Ayaz Coming to know You |
| Bacharach, Naftali A Poem for the Sefirot as a Wheel of Light |
| Badakhshani, Binavi Clear Wine |
| Basava The eating bowl is not one bronze |
| Basava The pot is a God |
| Basava The Temple and the Body |
| Basava The waters of joy |
| Basava Where they feed the fire |
| Basho, Matsuo A banana plant in the autumn gale |
| Basho, Matsuo awakened |
| Basho, Matsuo Come, let's go |
| Basho, Matsuo Crow's |
| Basho, Matsuo Fever-felled half-way |
| Basho, Matsuo Skylark |
| Basho, Matsuo The temple bell dies away |
| Basho, Matsuo Year's end |
| Battacharya, Mahendranath Oh Ma Kali, for a long time now |
| Battacharya, Mahendranath Screening its face amongst lotus stalks |
| Battacharya, Mahendranath Tell me, what are you doing now, Mind |
| Bays, Hogen In this passing moment |
| Bedil, Abdul-Qader Creation's Witness |
| Bedil, Abdul-Qader His Living Proof |
| Berrigan, Daniel Credentials |
| Berry, Wendell A Spiritual Journey |
| Berry, Wendell How to Be a Poet |
| Berry, Wendell Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front |
| Berry, Wendell Sabbaths 1985, V |
| Berry, Wendell Sabbaths 1999, VII |
| Berry, Wendell Testament |
| Berry, Wendell The Peace of Wild Things |
| Berry, Wendell The Real Work |
| Berry, Wendell The Wild Geese |
| Berry, Wendell To Know the Dark |
| Blake, William Awake! awake O sleeper of the land of shadows (from Jerusalem) |
| Blake, William The Divine Image |
| Booth, Philip First Lesson |
| Booth, Philip How to See a Deer |
| Brabazon, Francis Dawn is a Friend |
| Broughton, James Not dawdling |
| Bulleh Shah Bulleh! to me, I am not known |
| Bulleh Shah Chanting, chanting the Beloved’s name |
| Bulleh Shah One Thread Only |
| Bulleh Shah Remove duality and do away with all disputes |
| Buson Clinging to the bell |
| Buson Miles of frost |
| Buson On these southern roads |
| Buson spring rain |
| Buson This cold winter night |
| Buson winter moon |
| Catherine of Siena We were enclosed (from Prayer 20) |
| Cavafy, Constantine P. Ithaca |
| Chikako, Jusammi On this summer night |
| Ching-Yuen, Loy No use fretting over gold, beauty or fame; |
| Chiyo-ni, Fukuda loneliness |
| Chiyo-ni, Fukuda whatever I pick up |
| Clare of Assisi Draw me after You! |
| Clare of Assisi Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! |
| Clare of Assisi What you hold, may you always hold |
| Clare of Assisi When You have loved, You shall be chaste |
| Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Kubla Khan |
| Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Reason |
| Colliver, Andrew Come |
| Colliver, Andrew Good Medicine |
| Colliver, Andrew Nocturne |
| Colliver, Andrew The Further You Go |
| cummings, e. e. i carry your heart with me |
| cummings, e. e. i thank You God for most this amazing |
| cummings, e. e. let it go -- the |
| cummings, e. e. love is a place |
| cummings, e. e. may my heart always be open to little |
| Dariya Sahib of Bihar The musk is within the deer |
| Dariya Sahib of Bihar Who can describe the Source of the universe |
| Dasimayya, Devara Suppose you cut a tall bamboo |
| Dasimayya, Devara The Hovering One |
| Dasimayya, Devara To the utterly at-one with Siva |
| Dasimayya, Devara What can I hurt now |
| Dasimayya, Devara Whatever It was |
| Dickinson, Emily Always Mine! |
| Dickinson, Emily Forever -- is composed of Nows |
| Dickinson, Emily I'm ceded--I've stopped being Theirs |
| Dickinson, Emily Me from Myself -- to banish |
| Dickinson, Emily Some keep the Sabbath going to the Church |
| Dickinson, Emily Take Your Heaven further on |
| Dickinson, Emily There came a Day at Summer's full |
| Dickinson, Emily 'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! |
| Dickinson, Emily Who has not found the Heaven--below |
| Dionysius the Areopagite Lead us up beyond light |
| Dogen, Eihei Ching-ch'ing's raindrop sound |
| Dogen, Eihei Impermanence |
| Dogen, Eihei In the stream |
| Dogen, Eihei midnight -- no waves, no wind |
| Dogen, Eihei One of six verses on snow: |
| Dogen, Eihei True person manifest throughout the ten quarters of the world |
| Dogen, Eihei Worship |
| Dogen, Eihei Zazen |
| Eldar Edda (Anonymous) Odin's Shaman Song (from Eldar Edda) |
| Eliot, T. S. At the still point of the turning world (from The Four Quartets) |
| Eliot, T. S. I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you (from Four Quartets) |
| Emre, Yunus A single word can brighten the face |
| Emre, Yunus Knowledge should mean a full grasp of knowledge: |
| Emre, Yunus Let's Take Yunus Emre |
| Emre, Yunus One Who Is Real Is Humble |
| Emre, Yunus The drink sent down from Truth |
| Emre, Yunus The lover is outcast and idle |
| Emre, Yunus Those who became complete |
| Emre, Yunus True speech is the fruit of not speaking |
| Emre, Yunus We entered the house of realization |
| Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Bol - Speak |
| Farid, Baba Sheikh I thought I was alone who suffered |
| Feng-kan (Big Stick) Actually there isn't a thing |
| Feuerstein, Georg Odin's Ordeal |
| Francis of Assisi Let the whole of mankind tremble |
| Francis of Assisi Prayer Inspired by the Our Father |
| Francis of Assisi The Canticle of Brother Sun |
| Francis of Assisi The Canticle of Brother Sun |
| Francis of Assisi The Praises of God |
| Francis of Assisi The Prayer Before the Crucifix |
| Galib, Seyh Love is a lamp of God, I am its moth |
| Ganjavi, Mahsati The Pathway Finally Opened |
| Gascoigne, Dame Catherine One thing alone I crave / Unum sit mihi totum |
| Ghalib, Mirza Let the ascetics sing of the garden of Paradise |
| Ghalib, Mirza The drop dies in the river |
| Ghalib, Mirza The Footprint |
| Gibran, Kahlil Bewildered |
| Gibran, Kahlil Giving |
| Gibran, Kahlil Good and Evil |
| Gibran, Kahlil Pain |
| Gibran, Kahlil Reason and Passion |
| Gibran, Kahlil Self-Knowledge |
| Gikatilla, Joseph The Nut Garden |
| Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Ha! What is this dance of bliss (from Faust) |
| Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Something Like the Sun |
| Gosain, Haude On the other shore |
| Govindasvami Holy sixth day |
| Granger, Ivan M. Adi Atman 9: you you |
| Granger, Ivan M. All You Gurus |
| Granger, Ivan M. Bent |
| Granger, Ivan M. City Fox |
| Granger, Ivan M. Every Shaped Thing |
| Granger, Ivan M. Holy Ground |
| Granger, Ivan M. How Can I Explain? |
| Granger, Ivan M. in love with the new sun |
| Granger, Ivan M. Medusa |
| Granger, Ivan M. Parched |
| Granger, Ivan M. Rain Upcountry |
| Granger, Ivan M. The Warbler Knows |
| Granger, Ivan M. Thief of hearts |
| Granger, Ivan M. To goslings |
| Granger, Ivan M. Trinket |
| Granger, Ivan M. Twelve Ways to Lose Your Head on Maui |
| Granger, Ivan M. When the Spring Thaw Comes |
| Granum Sinapis (Anonymous) Granum Sinapis |
| Guilhem IX of Poitou Joyous in love, I make my aim |
| Gyatso, Kelsang Little Tiger |
| Hadewijch All things |
| Hadewijch God must give us a renewed mind (from Vale Millies) |
| Hadewijch Love has subjugated me |
| Hadewijch The Queen of Sheba |
| Hadewijch You who want |
| Hafiz A New World |
| Hafiz Cupbearer, it is morning, fill my cup with wine |
| Hafiz It Is Time to Wake Up! |
| Hafiz Spring and all its flowers |
| Hafiz Sun Rays |
| Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) A Still Cup |
| Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) No Conflict |
| Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) The Great Religions |
| Hakuin Hakuin's Song of Zazen |
| Hakuin Past, present, future: unattainable |
| Hakuin The monkey is reaching |
| Hallaj, Mansur al- I Witnessed My Maker |
| Hallaj, Mansur al- If They Only Knew |
| Hallaj, Mansur al- Kill me, my faithful friends |
| Hallaj, Mansur al- You glide between the heart and its casing |
| Hallaj, Mansur al- You Went Away but Remained in Me |
| Hallaj, Mansur al- Your spirit is mingled with mine |
| Hamadani, Ayn al-Qozat Nonexistence |
| Hamadani, Ayn al-Qozat Within the eye of the eye |
| Han-shan (Cold Mountain) Above Cold Mountain the moon shines alone |
| Han-shan (Cold Mountain) Children I implore you |
| Han-shan (Cold Mountain) Here's a message for the faithful |
| Han-shan (Cold Mountain) Someone lives in a mountain gorge |
| Han-shan (Cold Mountain) This rare and heavenly creature |
| Hanh, Thich Nhat Full Moon Festival |
| Hanh, Thich Nhat Interrelationship |
| Hanh, Thich Nhat Looking for Each Other |
| Hanh, Thich Nhat Please Call Me by My True Names |
| Hanh, Thich Nhat Walking Meditation |
| Hao-jan, Meng Master I's Chamber in the Ta-yu Temple |
| Hatun, Zeynep I am a fountain, You are my water |
| Hawaiian (Anonymous) Ho'opuka E Ka La (Rise, O Sun) |
| Hayati, Bibi Before there was a hint of civilization |
| Hayati, Bibi How can I see the splendor of the moon |
| Hayati, Bibi Is it the night of power |
| Hekhalot Hymns (Anonymous) The Face of God |
| Herbert, George Church Monuments |
| Herbert, George The Altar |
| Herbert, George The Elixir |
| Heschel, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Intimate Hymn |
| Heschel, Rabbi Abraham Joshua The Word Most Precious |
| Hildegard von Bingen Ave generosa / Hymn to the Virgin |
| Hildegard von Bingen Holy Spirit of Fire |
| Hildegard von Bingen Laus Trinitati / Antiphon for the Trinity |
| Hildegard von Bingen O Euchari in leta via / Sequence for Saint Eucharius |
| Hildegard von Bingen O most noble Greenness, rooted in the sun |
| Hildegard von Bingen O nobilissima viriditas |
| Hildegard von Bingen O spectabiles viri / Antiphon for Patriarchs and Prophets |
| Hildegard von Bingen O virga mediatrix / Alleluia-verse for the Virgin |
| Hirshfield, Jane Metempsychosis |
| Hirshfield, Jane The Task |
| Hirshfield, Jane Tree |
| Holderlin, Friedrich All the Fruit... |
| Hopkins, Gerard Manley God's Grandeur |
| Howe, Marie Annunciation |
| Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [1] There is the leisurely one (from The Shodoka) |
| Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [14] The best student goes directly to the ultimate (from The Shodoka) |
| Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [16] When I consider the virtue of abusive words (from The Shodoka) |
| Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [19] Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen (from The Shodoka) |
| Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [25] Just take hold of the source (from The Shodoka) |
| Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [39] Right here it is eternally full and serene (from The Shodoka) |
| Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [46] People hear the Buddha's doctrine of immediacy (from The Shodoka) |
| Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [48] In the sandalwood forest, there is no other tree (from The Shodoka) |
| Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [52] From my youth I piled studies upon studies (from The Shodoka) |
| Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [55] When all is finally seen as it is, (from The Shodoka) |
| Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [56] The hungry are served a king's repast (from The Shodoka) |
| Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [60] The remarkable power of emancipation (from The Shodoka) |
| Ibn al-Farid, Umar Compared to my dawn (from The Poem of the Sufi Way) |
| Ibn al-Farid, Umar I sought her from myself (from The Poem of the Sufi Way) |
| Ibn al-Farid, Umar In memory of the beloved (from The Wine Ode (al-Khamriyah)) |
| Ibn al-Farid, Umar In truth, I led my prayer leader in prayer (from The Poem of the Sufi Way) |
| Ibn al-Farid, Umar No one speaks (from The Poem of the Sufi Way) |
| Ibn al-Farid, Umar Resist the calls of wrangling talk (from The Poem of the Sufi Way) |
| Ibn al-Farid, Umar They say to me: "Do describe it (from The Wine Ode (al-Khamriyah)) |
| Ibn al-Farid, Umar Unveiling herself revealed (from The Poem of the Sufi Way) |
| Ibn al-Farid, Umar Whispering, then listening close (from The Poem of the Sufi Way) |
| Ibn Ata' Illah A feeling of discouragement when you slip up |
| Ibn Ata' Illah How utterly amazing is someone who flees from something he cannot escape |
| ibn Gabirol, Solomon Ecstasy |
| ibn Gabirol, Solomon Rise and open the door that is shut |
| ibn Gabirol, Solomon Thou Livest |
| Ikkyu (Sojun, Ikkyu) A Fisherman |
| Ikkyu (Sojun, Ikkyu) Every day, priests minutely examine the Law |
| Ikkyu (Sojun, Ikkyu) inside the koan clear mind |
| Iraqi, Fakhruddin As sunlight is attributed to the moon, so is the Beloved's form ascribed to the lover; but in truth |
| Iraqi, Fakhruddin Every word of every tongue is |
| Iraqi, Fakhruddin Everywhere veiled |
| Iraqi, Fakhruddin It speaks to me in the silence of this one |
| Iraqi, Fakhruddin Love plays its lute behind the screen |
| Iraqi, Fakhruddin My eyes so fix |
| Iraqi, Fakhruddin The world but seems to be |
| Iraqi, Fakhruddin These perfumes |
| Iraqi, Fakhruddin Whether they know Thee or not |
| Islam, Nazrul He who has seen my Mother |
| Issa, Kobayashi Autumn wind |
| Issa, Kobayashi Buddha's body |
| Issa, Kobayashi does the woodpecker |
| Issa, Kobayashi Don't weep, insects |
| Issa, Kobayashi even poorly planted |
| Issa, Kobayashi From burweed |
| Issa, Kobayashi In my hut |
| Issa, Kobayashi into morning-glories |
| Issa, Kobayashi Never forget |
| Issa, Kobayashi Reflected |
| Issa, Kobayashi stillness |
| Issa, Kobayashi Where there are humans |
| Izzet, Asik Ali The Path of the Beautiful |
| Jacobsen, Rolf Moon and Apple |
| Jacobsen, Rolf When They Sleep |
| Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) As air carries light poured out by the rising sun |
| Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) How the Soul Through the Senses Finds God in All Creatures |
| Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) Love beyond all telling (from Self-Annihilation and Charity Lead the Soul...) |
| Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) Love, where did You enter the heart unseen? (from In Praise of Divine Love) |
| Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) Now, a new creature |
| Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) Oh, the futility of seeking to convey (from Self-Annihilation and Charity Lead the Soul...) |
| Jakushitsu Gathering Tea |
| Jakushitsu Sitting in the Mountains |
| Jan, Chiao To Be Shown to the Monks at a Certain Temple |
| Janabai You leave your greatness behind you |
| Janabai You must accept those who surrender to you |
| Jayadeva When he quickens all things (from The Gitagovinda) |
| Jeffers, Robinson Carmel Point |
| Jimenez, Juan Ramon I Am Not I |
| Jimenez, Juan Ramon Oceans |
| Jimenez, Juan Ramon Who Knows What is Going On |
| Jnaneshwar Knowledge and Ignorance (from Amritanubhav) |
| Jnaneshwar The Union of Shiva and Shakti (from Amritanubhav) |
| John of the Cross Dark Night |
| John of the Cross I Entered the Unknown |
| John of the Cross Love's Living Flame |
| John of the Cross On the Communion of the Three Persons (from Romance on the Gospel) |
| John of the Cross The Fountain |
| John of the Cross The Sum of Perfection |
| Kabir Between the conscious and the unconscious, the mind has put up a swing |
| Kabir He's that rascally kind of yogi |
| Kabir Hey brother, why do you want me to talk? |
| Kabir My body is flooded |
| Kabir The Drop and the Sea |
| Kabir The Lord is in Me |
| Kabir Within this earthen vessel |
| Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) In the cloud raindrops swirl |
| Kalidasa Exhortation of the Dawn |
| Kalidasa Waking |
| Kamalakanta Ever-blissful Kali |
| Kamalakanta Is my black Mother Syama really black? |
| Kamalakanta O Kali, my Mother full of Bliss! |
| Kamalakanta The black bee of my mind is drawn in sheer delight |
| Kanaka'ole, Edith E ho mai |
| Kerouac, Jack The Scripture of the Golden Eternity |
| Khayyam, Omar [1] AWAKE! for Morning in the Bowl of Night |
| Khayyam, Omar [10] With me along the strip of Herbage strown |
| Khayyam, Omar [11] Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough |
| Khayyam, Omar [32] There was a Door to which I found no Key |
| Khayyam, Omar [4] Now the New Year reviving old Desires |
| Khayyam, Omar [41 - later edition] Perplext no more with Human or Divine Perplext no more with Human or Divine |
| Khayyam, Omar [42 - later edition] Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit |
| Khayyam, Omar [45] But leave the Wise to wrangle, and with me |
| Khayyam, Omar [46] For in and out, above, about, below |
| Khayyam, Omar [6] And David's Lips are lock't; but in divine |
| Khayyam, Omar [66] So while the Vessels one by one were speaking |
| Khayyam, Omar [71] And much as Wine has play'd the Infidel |
| Khayyam, Omar [74] Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane |
| Khusrow Dehlawi, Amir I Asked |
| Khusrow Dehlawi, Amir The River of Love |
| Kirmani, Awhad al-Din Swept Away |
| Ko Un A Smile |
| Ko Un Two beggars |
| Krishnamurti, Jiddu I Am All |
| Krishnamurti, Jiddu I have no name (from The Song of Life) |
| Kuhi of Shiraz, Baba In the market, in the cloister--only God I saw |
| Lakota (Anonymous) Three Lakota Songs |
| Lalan As the man and the woman in me |
| Lalla Coursing in emptiness |
| Lalla Don't flail about like a man wearing a blindfold |
| Lalla I traveled a long way seeking God |
| Lalla Intense cold makes water ice |
| Lalla Learning the scriptures is easy |
| Lalla One shrine to the next, the hermit can't stop for breath |
| Lalla To learn the scriptures is easy |
| Latif Bhitai, Shah Abdul If you are seeking Allah |
| Lawrence, D. H. I Am Like a Rose |
| Lawrence, D. H. Pax |
| Lawrence, D. H. Song of a Man Who Has Come Through |
| Lee, Li-Young Nativity |
| Lee, Li-Young One Heart |
| Lee, Li-Young Out of Hiding |
| Lee, Li-Young Praise Them |
| Levertov, Denise Beginners |
| Levertov, Denise Illustrious Ancestors |
| Levertov, Denise Looking, Walking, Being |
| Levertov, Denise Primary Wonder |
| Levertov, Denise Scraps of moon |
| Levertov, Denise The Depths |
| Levertov, Denise The Fountain |
| Levertov, Denise Variation On A Theme By Rilke |
| Levertov, Denise Witness |
| Levine, Stephen Millennium Blessing |
| Levine, Stephen Trust Your Vision |
| Li Bai Self-Abandonment |
| Li Bai The birds have vanished into the sky |
| Li Bai Yellow Crane Terrace |
| Li Bai You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest |
| Llull, Ramon January (from The Book of the Lover and Beloved) |
| Lowitz, Leza Waiting |
| Lu Tung Pin People may sit till the cushion is worn through |
| Lu Tung Pin What is Tao? |
| Luria, Isaac A Poem for the Small Face |
| Machado, Antonio Hope says |
| Machado, Antonio I dreamt you took me |
| Machado, Antonio Last night, as I was sleeping |
| Machado, Antonio Last night, as I was sleeping [Bly] |
| Machado, Antonio Lord, You Tore from Me |
| Machado, Antonio Proverbs and Songs |
| Machado, Antonio Songs |
| Macy, Joanna Ecosattva Vows |
| Maghribi, Muhammad Shirin Each Way I Turned |
| Maghribi, Muhammad Shirin O End of Every Beginning |
| Maghribi, Muhammad Shirin The Moon of Your Love |
| Maghsoud, Moulana Shah Go to the Winery and exchange your robe for a drink of wine |
| Maghsoud, Moulana Shah The verbal unity comes from the words |
| Mahadevi, Akka Breath for fragrance |
| Mahadevi, Akka It was like a stream |
| Mahadevi, Akka Like a silkworm weaving |
| Mahadevi, Akka People, male and female, |
| Mahadevi, Akka Through Thee have I forgotten Thee! |
| Mahadevi, Akka You are the forest |
| Mahadevi, Akka You can confiscate |
| Maharshi, Ramana The Song of the Poppadum |
| Maneri, Sharafuddin Here there is no we or I or this or that |
| Maneri, Sharafuddin If You welcome me, then I am Your accepted one |
| Manikkavacakar Becoming sky & earth |
| Masahide Barn's burnt down |
| McCombs, Chris Is This Your Time? |
| Mechthild of Magdeburg A fish cannot drown in water |
| Mechthild of Magdeburg Effortlessly |
| Mechthild of Magdeburg Then shall I leap into love |
| Mei, Yuan Climbing the Mountain |
| Mei, Yuan Nearing Hao-pa |
| Mei, Yuan P'u-t'o Temple |
| Merton, Thomas A Practical Program for Monks |
| Merton, Thomas A Psalm |
| Merton, Thomas Follow my ways and I will lead you |
| Merton, Thomas In Silence |
| Merton, Thomas O Sweet Irrational Worship |
| Merton, Thomas Song for Nobody |
| Merton, Thomas Stranger |
| Merton, Thomas The Fall |
| Merton, Thomas The Sowing of Meanings |
| Merwin, W. S. Just Now |
| Milarepa The Profound Definitive Meaning |
| Milarepa The Song of Food and Dwelling |
| Milarepa The Song of Perfect Assurance (to the Demons) |
| Milarepa The Song on Reaching the Mountain Peak |
| Milosz, Czeslaw Forget |
| Milosz, Czeslaw Gift |
| Milosz, Czeslaw Late Ripeness |
| Milosz, Czeslaw Love |
| Milosz, Czeslaw On Angels |
| Mirabai I am true to my Lord |
| Mirabai No one knows my invisible life |
| Mirabai O I saw witchcraft tonight |
| Mirabai Out in a downpour |
| Mirabai The Beloved Comes Home |
| Mirabai The Dagger |
| Mirabai The Heat of Midnight Tears |
| Mirabai Unbreakable, O Lord |
| Misri, Niyazi Now No Trace Remains |
| Mistral, Gabriela Those Who Do Not Dance |
| Mueller, Lisel What is Left to Say |
| Mueller, Lisel Why I Need the Birds |
| Muhaiyaddeen, Bawa There is One God |
| Muktabai Where darkness is gone I live |
| Muktananda, Swami Mukteshwari |
| Muktananda, Swami That which was not, came |
| Nachmanides (Nachman, Moses ben) The Soul Speaks (from Hymn on the Fate of the Soul) |
| Nagarjuna Change |
| Namdev The drum with no drumhead beats |
| Nammalvar O Lord, infinite in Thy glory, |
| Nammalvar The earth and the far-flung sky |
| Nammalvar While I was waiting eagerly for him |
| Nanak, Guru Ek Omkar |
| Nanak, Guru [Japji 8] From listening |
| Naropa The Summary of Mahamudra |
| Nasimi, Imadeddin Both worlds within my compass come, but this world cannot compass me |
| Navajo (Anonymous) Navajo Prayer - May it be beautiful |
| Nawaz, Gharib Riddle |
| Nawaz, Gharib The Second Jesus |
| Nematollah Vali, Shah I beheld my essence |
| Nematollah Vali, Shah The Point of the Circle |
| Neruda, Pablo Keeping Quiet |
| Neruda, Pablo Poetry |
| Neruda, Pablo The Poet's Obligation |
| Neruda, Pablo Too Many Names |
| Niffari (an-Niffari, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan) Stand at the throne (from The Standing Of the Presence Chamber and the Letter) |
| Nirmala truth is too simple for words |
| Nirmala why fear this moment |
| Nirmala words do not come |
| Novalis Uplifted is the stone |
| Nurbakhsh, Javad Come! |
| O'Brian, Ellen Grace Maya |
| O'Donohue, John For a New Beginning |
| Ojibway (Anonymous) Ojibway Song |
| Oliver, Colin Boundless |
| Oliver, Colin Endpoem |
| Oliver, Colin Here I see no-one |
| Oliver, Mary Can You Imagine? |
| Oliver, Mary Halleluiah |
| Oliver, Mary Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches? |
| Oliver, Mary In Blackwater Woods |
| Oliver, Mary Mindful |
| Oliver, Mary Mysteries, Yes |
| Oliver, Mary Spring |
| Oliver, Mary Sunrise |
| Oliver, Mary The Buddha's Last Instruction |
| Oliver, Mary The Journey |
| Oliver, Mary The Lark |
| Oliver, Mary The Ponds |
| Oliver, Mary Thirst |
| Oliver, Mary What I Have Learned So Far |
| Oliver, Mary What is There Beyond Knowing? |
| Oliver, Mary When Death Comes |
| Oliver, Mary Wild Geese |
| Oliver, Mary Yes! No! |
| Osborne, Arthur Arunachala |
| P'ang Yun (Layman P'ang) When the mind is at peace |
| Pampattic Cittar Dance o snake |
| Pampattic Cittar One must delve deep |
| Patrul Rinpoche Use the time of your life |
| Pawnee (Anonymous) Let Us See |
| Pima (Anonymous) Medicine Man's Song |
| Pima (Anonymous) The Creation of the Earth |
| Plunkett, Joseph Mary The Splendour of God |
| Porete, Marguerite Beguines say I err... |
| Porete, Marguerite Beloved, what do you want of me? |
| Porete, Marguerite Humility |
| Porete, Marguerite Peace of charity in the annihilated life |
| Qushayri When morning arose |
| Rabia al-Basri (Adawiyya, Rabia al-) I have two ways of loving You: |
| Rabia al-Basri (Adawiyya, Rabia al-) My joy |
| Rabia al-Basri (Adawiyya, Rabia al-) O God, Another Night is passing away |
| Rabia al-Basri (Adawiyya, Rabia al-) O my Lord, if I worship you |
| Rabia al-Basri (Adawiyya, Rabia al-) O my Lord, the stars glitter |
| Rabia al-Basri (Adawiyya, Rabia al-) Through and Through |
| Rabjampa, Longchen An Adamantine Song on the Ever-Present |
| Rahman Baba Soul Train |
| Ram Tzu (Liquorman, Wayne) Every time |
| Ram Tzu (Liquorman, Wayne) You are perfect |
| Ram Tzu (Liquorman, Wayne) You think of the Path |
| Ramakrishna Is there anyone in the universe |
| Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) I drink no ordinary wine |
| Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) In the world's busy market-place, O Shyama |
| Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Mother, am I Thine eight-months child? |
| Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Once for all, this time |
| Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) So I say: Mind, don't you sleep |
| Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Tell me, brother, what happens after death? |
| Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) This time I shall devour Thee utterly, Mother Kali! |
| Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Who is that Syama woman |
| Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Why disappear into formless trance? |
| Ramsay, Jay Blessed Unrest |
| Ramsay, Jay I saw a great light come down over London |
| Ramsay, Jay In the End: The Beginning |
| Rasakhan Enchanted |
| Rasakhan Nectar Radha |
| Ravidas When I existed |
| Reninger, Elizabeth Bird Bath |
| Reninger, Elizabeth Dawn |
| Reninger, Elizabeth True Love |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria A Walk |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria Ah, not to be cut off |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria As once the winged energy of delight |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria Buddha in Glory |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria For your sake poets sequester themselves |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria I believe in all that has never yet been spoken |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria I find you, Lord, in all Things and in all |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria I live my life in widening circles |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria Silent friend of many distances, feel |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria Sunset |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria The Man Watching |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria Want the change |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing |
| Roethke, Theodore In a Dark Time |
| Roethke, Theodore The Right Thing |
| Roethke, Theodore Was it Light? |
| Rosenstock, Gabriel a star |
| Rosenstock, Gabriel Fresh Paint / Péint Úr (from The Last Sasquatch) |
| Rosenstock, Gabriel frosty morning |
| Rosenstock, Gabriel I create silences |
| Rosenstock, Gabriel inch by inch |
| Rosenstock, Gabriel Look! a tree |
| Rosenstock, Gabriel to fully explore |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin During the day I was singing with you |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Fasting |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin I lost my world, my fame, my mind |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin I'm neither beautiful nor ugly |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Inner Wakefulness |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Keep on knocking |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Like This |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin look at love |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Love is Here |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin No end to the journey |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin No One Here but Him |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Only Breath |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Secret Language |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Suddenly, in the sky at dawn, a moon appeared |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin That moon which the sky never saw |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin The Absolute works with nothing |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin The grapes of my body can only become wine |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin The minute I heard my first love story |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin The Thirsty |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin There is some kiss we want |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin This moment |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin We are the mirror as well as the face in it |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Whoever finds love |
| Ryokan Autumn's first drizzle |
| Ryokan Even if you consume as many books |
| Ryokan First days of spring -- the sky |
| Ryokan The I Ching States Happiness Lies in the Proper Blend of: |
| Ryokan The thief left it behind |
| Ryokan The winds have died, but flowers go on falling |
| Ryokan Thinking |
| Ryokan This world |
| Ryokan You stop to point at the moon in the sky |
| Sa'di All Adam's offspring form one family tree |
| Sa'di If one His praise of me would learn |
| Sanai, Hakim Belief brings me close to You |
| Sanai, Hakim Bring all of yourself to his door |
| Sanai, Hakim Meditation |
| Sanai, Hakim Mystic Chat |
| Sanai, Hakim Naked in the Bee-House |
| Sanai, Hakim No tongue can tell Your secret |
| Sanai, Hakim Streaming |
| Sanai, Hakim The Good Darkness |
| Sanai, Hakim The way to You |
| Sanai, Hakim There is no place for place! |
| Sanai, Hakim When he admits you to his presence |
| Santoka (Taneda, Santoka) Hailstones, too |
| Santoka (Taneda, Santoka) If there are mountains, I look at the mountains |
| Sarmad Every man who knows his secret |
| Sarmad He dwells not only in temples and mosques |
| Sarmad My heart searched for your fragrance |
| Sarmad Once I was bathed in the Light of Truth within |
| Sarmast, Sachal Friend, this is the only way |
| Sarton, May The Work of Happiness |
| Sarton, May Unison Benediction |
| Schneider, Pat Instructions for the Journey |
| Schneider, Pat The Patience of Ordinary Things |
| Shabistari, Mahmud One Light |
| Shabistari, Mahmud Reason (from The Secret Rose Garden) |
| Shabistari, Mahmud The Beloved Guest |
| Shabistari, Mahmud The Marriage of the Soul (from The Secret Rose Garden) |
| Shabistari, Mahmud The Tavern Haunters |
| Shabkar (Rangdrol, Shabkar Tsogdruk) All sounds are the resonance of voidness |
| Shabkar (Rangdrol, Shabkar Tsogdruk) One must remain in the vastness |
| Shabkar (Rangdrol, Shabkar Tsogdruk) See how, shaped by the excellence of the path |
| Shabkar (Rangdrol, Shabkar Tsogdruk) The mind has neither color nor form |
| Shankara Nirvana Shatakam |
| Shankara You are my true self, O Lord |
| Shih Shu as flowing waters disappear into the mist |
| Shih Shu mountain sounds carry a chill wisdom |
| Shih-te (Pickup) Behold the glow of the moon |
| Shih-te (Pickup) Doesn't anyone see |
| Shikibu, Izumi Although the wind |
| Shikibu, Izumi Watching the moon |
| Shiwu (Stonehouse) Outside the door I made but don't close |
| Shiwu (Stonehouse) To glorify the Way what should people turn to |
| Shiwu (Stonehouse) Trying to become a Buddha is easy |
| Silesius, Angelus Eternity is time |
| Silesius, Angelus God, whose love and joy are present everywhere |
| Silesius, Angelus In Spirit senses are |
| Silesius, Angelus So many droplets in the sea, in bread so many grains |
| Simnani, Ala al-Dawla What Was |
| Sinan, Ummi The Rose |
| Singh, Darshan How did I ever think silence the language of love? |
| Singh, Darshan How should I tell of the feeling that reigns |
| Sivavakkiyar In bricks and in granite |
| Snyder, Gary At Tower Peak |
| Snyder, Gary For All |
| Snyder, Gary How Poetry Comes to Me |
| Snyder, Gary Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout |
| Snyder, Gary No Matter, Never Mind |
| Snyder, Gary On Top |
| Solovyov, Vladimir All in azure today |
| Solovyov, Vladimir Triumphing over death from the start (from Three Meetings) |
| Soseki, Muso At the Nachi Kan'non Hall |
| Soseki, Muso Clear Valley |
| Soseki, Muso Temple of Eternal Light |
| Soseki, Muso Toki-no-Ge (Satori Poem) |
| Soseki, Natsume The lamp once out |
| Soseki, Natsume Watch birth and death |
| Sri Chinmoy (Kumar Ghose, Chinmoy) Flames |
| Sri Chinmoy (Kumar Ghose, Chinmoy) The Absolute |
| Stafford, William Any Morning |
| Stafford, William At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border |
| Stafford, William Cutting Loose |
| Stafford, William Starting with Little Things |
| Stafford, William You Reading This, Be Ready |
| Stevens, Wallace The house was quiet and the world was calm |
| Stevens, Wallace Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird |
| Sun Buer Refining the Spirit |
| Swir, Anna Happy as a Dog's Tail |
| Swir, Anna My Body Effervesces |
| Swir, Anna Myself and My Person |
| Swir, Anna Priceless Gifts |
| Symeon the New Theologian By what boundless mercy, my Savior |
| Symeon the New Theologian How is it I can love You |
| Symeon the New Theologian The fire rises in me |
| Symeon the New Theologian The Light of Your Way |
| Symeon the New Theologian We awaken in Christ's body |
| Symeon the New Theologian What is this awesome mystery |
| Szekely, Edmond Bordeaux God Speaks to Man |
| Szekely, Edmond Bordeaux I will praise thy works (from The Communions) |
| Szymborska, Wislawa A Contribution to Statistics |
| Szymborska, Wislawa Miracle Fair |
| Szymborska, Wislawa The Camel |
| Tagore, Rabindranath (1) Thou hast made me endless (from Gitanjali) |
| Tagore, Rabindranath (101) Ever in my life have I sought thee with my songs (from Gitanjali) |
| Tagore, Rabindranath (103) In one salutation to thee, my God (from Gitanjali) |
| Tagore, Rabindranath (38) I want thee, only thee (from Gitanjali) |
| Tagore, Rabindranath (80) I am like a remnant of a cloud of autumn (from Gitanjali) |
| Tagore, Rabindranath (84) It is the pang of separation that spreads throughout the world (from Gitanjali) |
| Tagore, Rabindranath I touch God in my song |
| Tagore, Rabindranath Listen, can you hear it? (from The Lover of God) |
| Tagore, Rabindranath On many an idle day have I grieved over lost time (from Gitanjali) |
| Taliesin A Poem for the Wind |
| Tennyson, Alfred Flower in the crannied wall |
| Tennyson, Alfred The Higher Pantheism |
| Teresa of Avila In the Hands of God |
| Teresa of Avila On Those Words "I am for My Beloved" |
| Teresa of Avila You are Christ's Hands |
| Thomas, R. S. But the silence in the mind |
| Thomas, R. S. The Bright Field |
| Thomas, R. S. The Moor |
| Thomas, R. S. Via Negativa |
| Tolkien, J. R. R. All That is Gold Does Not Glitter (Gandalf's Song of Aragorn) |
| Tolkien, J. R. R. Elbereth |
| Tolkien, J. R. R. Frodo's Lament for Gandalf |
| Tolkien, J. R. R. Gandalf's Song of Lórien |
| Tolkien, J. R. R. One Ring |
| Tolkien, J. R. R. The Song of Beren and Lúthien |
| Tolkien, J. R. R. Upon the hearth the fire is red |
| Traherne, Thomas Love |
| Trinley, Karma A Song on the View of Voidness |
| Trungpa, Chogyam Sutra |
| Trungpa, Chogyam The Education of the Warrior |
| Tsogyel, Yeshe The Supreme Being is the Dakini Queen of the Lake of Awareness! |
| Tsvetaeva, Marina I know the truth |
| Tsvetaeva, Marina The gold that was my hair has turned |
| Tukaram All men to me are god-like Gods! |
| Tulsi Sahib Sound Celestial |
| Tulsi Sahib Within This Body |
| Ungar, Lynn Boundaries |
| Valad, Sultan The Soul That Does not Live in God is not Alive |
| Vaughan, Henry The Morning Watch |
| Vaughan, Henry The Night |
| Vaughan, Henry Vanity of Spirit |
| Vidyapati All my inhibition left me in a flash |
| Vidyapati As the mirror to my hand |
| Vidyapati My friend, I cannot answer when you ask me to explain |
| Vidyapati The moon has shone upon me |
| Vivekananda In dense darkness, O Mother |
| Walcott, Derek Earth |
| Walcott, Derek Love After Love |
| Walters, Dorothy After |
| Walters, Dorothy Hymn to the Nameless One |
| Walters, Dorothy If You Want |
| Walters, Dorothy Preparing to Greet the Goddess |
| Walters, Dorothy Still Life |
| Walters, Dorothy The Abundance of Brightness |
| Walters, Dorothy Waiting |
| Wei, Wang Cooling Off |
| Whitman, Walt [1] I celebrate myself, and sing myself (from Song of Myself) |
| Whitman, Walt [17] These are really the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me (from Song of Myself) |
| Whitman, Walt [3] I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end (from Song of Myself) |
| Whitman, Walt [4] Trippers and askers surround me (from Song of Myself) |
| Whitman, Walt [44] It is time to explain myself -- let us stand up (from Song of Myself) |
| Whitman, Walt [5] I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you (from Song of Myself) |
| Whitman, Walt [6] A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands (from Song of Myself) |
| Whitman, Walt Grand is the Seen |
| Whyte, David All the True Vows |
| Whyte, David It is Not Enough |
| Wordsworth, William Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows (from The Prelude, Book 1) |
| Wordsworth, William Such was the Boy--but for the growing Youth (from The Excursion, Book 1) |
| Wordsworth, William The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star (from Ode. Intimations of Immortality) |
| Wordsworth, William Thus while the days flew by, and years passed on (from The Prelude, Book 2) |
| Wright, Richard I am nobody: |
| Wu Men Hui-k'ai Moon and clouds are the same |
| Wu Men Hui-k'ai One instant is eternity |
| Wu Men Hui-k'ai Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn |
| Wu Men Hui-k'ai The Great Way has no gate |
| Yakut (Anonymous) Yakut Prayer |
| Yamei Swallowing |
| Yannai The Celestial Fire |
| Yeats, William Butler Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven |
| Yeats, William Butler The Lake Isle of Innisfree |
| Yen-shou, Yung-ming Immovable Mind |
| Yitzchak of Berditchov, Levi Where I wander -- You! |
| Yogananda, Paramahansa O Spirit, reveal Thyself as Thou art |
| Yogananda, Paramahansa OM |
| Yogananda, Paramahansa Prayer for the Great Enlightenment |
| Yogananda, Paramahansa Samadhi |
| Yogananda, Paramahansa What bliss at the sight of Thy light! |
| Yun-k'an Tzu by willow's shade |
| Yun, Hsu An Exquisite Truth |
| Yun, Hsu Heart of the Buddha |
| Yun, Hsu Mirror Pond on Mount Taibo in Shanxi |
| Yun, Hsu Searching for the Dharma |
| Zohar (Leon, Moses de) Inside the hidden nexus (from Jacob's Journey) |
| Zohar (Leon, Moses de) The Gates (from Openings) |
