What's New in the Poetry Chaikhana
5/19/2020 | New Poem: | O Saghi, pass around that cup of wine, then bring it to me, by Hafiz |
4/19/2020 | New Poem: | skylark in the heavens, by Fukuda Chiyo-ni |
2/19/2020 | New Poem: | Priceless Gifts, by Anna Swir |
2/12/2020 | New Poem: | This autumn evening, by Richard Wright |
2/12/2020 | New Poem: | Did somebody call?, by Richard Wright |
2/12/2020 | New Poem: | At slow intervals, by Richard Wright |
2/12/2020 | New Poem: | All right, You Sparrows, by Richard Wright |
2/12/2020 | New Poem: | Make up you mind, Snail!, by Richard Wright |
2/12/2020 | New Poem: | Leaving its nest, by Richard Wright |
2/12/2020 | New Poem: | An apple blossom, by Richard Wright |
2/12/2020 | New Poem: | The day is so long, by Richard Wright |
2/11/2020 | New Poem: | I am nobody:, by Richard Wright |
2/11/2020 | New Poet: | Richard Wright |
2/4/2020 | New Poem: | She Comes, by Sabah Raphael Reed |
2/4/2020 | New Poem: | Always Coming Home, by Sabah Raphael Reed |
2/4/2020 | New Poem: | I and I, by Sabah Raphael Reed |
2/4/2020 | New Poem: | Fierce Rapture, by Sabah Raphael Reed |
2/4/2020 | New Poem: | Fana, Baqa, by Sabah Raphael Reed |
2/4/2020 | New Poem: | Winter, by Sabah Raphael Reed |
2/4/2020 | New Poem: | Toward the One, by Sabah Raphael Reed |
2/4/2020 | New Poet: | Sabah Raphael Reed |
1/5/2020 | New Poem: | Ecosattva Vows, by Joanna Macy |
1/5/2020 | New Poet: | Joanna Macy |
1/5/2020 | New Poem: | Epitaph, by Merrit Malloy |
1/5/2020 | New Poet: | Merrit Malloy |
12/22/2019 | New Poem: | snow, by Santoka (Santoka Taneda) |
12/18/2019 | New Poem: | The track of the swan through the sky, by Eihei Dogen |
12/10/2019 | New Poem: | does the woodpecker, by Kobayashi Issa Commentary added. |
11/26/2019 | Change to Poem: | Come, let's go, by Matsuo Basho Commentary expanded. |
11/15/2019 | Change to Poem: | [16] When I consider the virtue of abusive words (from The Shodoka), by Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku Commentary expanded. |
10/25/2019 | Change to Poem: | Outside the door I made but don't close, by Shiwu (Stonehouse) Commentary added. |
10/18/2019 | Change to Poem: | This cold winter night, by Buson Commentary added. |
9/18/2019 | Change to Poem: | Suppose you cut a tall bamboo, by Devara Dasimayya Commentary expanded. |
9/13/2019 | Change to Poem: | Still Life, by Dorothy Walters Commentary added. |
9/6/2019 | Change to Poem: | Beg for Love, by Abu-Said Abil-Kheir Commentary added. |
9/6/2019 | Change to Poet: | Dorothy Walters Biography updated. |
8/23/2019 | Fix to: | Major Website Fixes: The website has been completely updated to secure SSL format. Multiple links fixed throughout. |
8/9/2019 | Change to Poem: | Learning the scriptures is easy, by Lalla Commentary expanded. |
7/27/2019 | Change to Poem: | Every word of every tongue is, by Fakhruddin Iraqi Commentary added. |
7/12/2019 | Change to Poem: | Song for Nobody, by Thomas Merton Commentary added. |
7/12/2019 | New Poem: | does the woodpecker, by Kobayashi Issa |
7/3/2019 | Change to Poem: | Giving, by Kahlil Gibran Commentary expanded. |
6/28/2019 | Change to Poem: | No One Here but Him, by Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi Commentary expanded. |
6/20/2019 | Change to Poem: | inch by inch, by Gabriel Rosenstock Commentary added. |
6/7/2019 | Change to Poem: | Spring and all its flowers, by Hafiz Commentary expanded. |
6/5/2019 | New Poem: | Love, by George Herbert |
6/5/2019 | New Poem: | New Year Resolve, by May Sarton |
5/31/2019 | Change to Poem: | Waiting, by Leza Lowitz Commentary added. |
5/8/2019 | Change to Poem: | [1] AWAKE! for Morning in the Bowl of Night, by Omar Khayyam Commentary expanded. |
5/3/2019 | Change to Poem: | The Right Thing, by Theodore Roethke Commentary added. |
4/19/2019 | Change to Poem: | One Heart, by Li-Young Lee Commentary expanded. |
4/17/2019 | Change to Poem: | in love with the new sun, by Ivan M. Granger Commentary expanded. |
4/11/2019 | Change to Poem: | Something Like the Sun, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Commentary added. |
4/2/2019 | Change to Poem: | To goslings, by Ivan M. Granger Commentary expanded. |
3/22/2019 | Change to Poem: | Watching the moon, by Izumi Shikibu Commentary expanded. |
3/3/2019 | New Poem: | I have heard that today Hari will come, by Mirabai |
2/27/2019 | Change to Poem: | [56] The hungry are served a king's repast (from The Shodoka), by Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku Commentary expanded. |
2/21/2019 | Change to Poem: | Love came and emptied me of self, by Abu-Said Abil-Kheir Commentary expanded. |
1/30/2019 | Change to Poem: | The Work of Happiness, by May Sarton Commentary added. |
1/23/2019 | Change to Poem: | When Death Comes, by Mary Oliver Commentary added. |
1/17/2019 | Change to Poem: | At dusk, at dawn I gaze upon your beauty, by Darshan Singh Commentary expanded. |
11/21/2018 | Change to Poem: | Unison Benediction, by May Sarton Commentary added. |
11/21/2018 | New Poem: | Now I Become Myself, by May Sarton |
11/21/2018 | New Poem: | The Work of Happiness, by May Sarton |
11/21/2018 | New Poem: | Bliss, by May Sarton |
11/21/2018 | New Poem: | Unison Benediction, by May Sarton |
11/21/2018 | New Poet: | May Sarton |
11/15/2018 | Change to Poem: | The Summary of Mahamudra, by Naropa Commentary expanded. |
10/12/2018 | Change to Poem: | O Kali, my Mother full of Bliss!, by Kamalakanta Commentary expanded. |
9/28/2018 | Change to Poem: | Medusa, by Ivan M. Granger Commentary expanded. |
8/23/2018 | Change to Poem: | Instructions for the Journey, by Pat Schneider Commentary added. |
7/27/2018 | Change to Poem: | All the True Vows, by David Whyte Commentary added. |
7/13/2018 | Change to Poem: | You Reading This, Be Ready, by William Stafford Commentary added. |
7/5/2018 | Change to Poem: | Love After Love, by Derek Walcott Commentary added. |
6/18/2018 | New Poem: | Now you know the worst, by Wendell Berry |