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Silence

 

 

 

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Silence
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Stillness
Stillness
Stillness

Poems with the theme of Silence

  Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said [210] When the desire for the Friend became real,
  Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said [324] Beg for Love.
  Adyashanti Rest and Be Taken
  Ashford, Eric Ecstasy
  Ashford, Eric Perfectly
  Aurobindo, Sri The Word of The Silence
  Berry, Wendell Sabbaths 1999, VII
  Berry, Wendell The Silence
  Berry, Wendell What We Need Is Here
  Brabazon, Francis Dawn is a Friend
  Ching-Yuen, Loy To know Tao
  Chinmoy, Sri At Last I Shall Listen
  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement
  cummings, e. e. i am a little church(no great cathedral)
  Dickinson, Emily [1053] It was a quiet way --
  Ghalib, Mirza Let the ascetics sing of the garden of Paradise --
  Ghalib, Mirza These divine verses,
  Gibran, Kahlil Prayer (from The Prophet)
  Gibran, Kahlil Self-Knowledge (from The Prophet)
  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Oh, happy he who still can hope in our day (from Faust)
  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang The Second Poem the Night-Walker Wrote
  Granger, Ivan M. Naked
  Granger, Ivan M. Twelve Ways to Lose Your Head on Maui
  Granger, Ivan M. rock doves mourn
  Granger, Ivan M. City Fox
  Hafiz The Essence of Grace
  Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) Geronimo
  Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) The Source
  Hirshfield, Jane The Heart's Counting Knows Only One
  Holmes, Dick Given
  Holmes, Dick Words Call to You
  Holmes, Dick You Have Me
  Ibn al-Farid, Umar Resist the calls of wrangling talk, (from The Poem of the Sufi Way)
  Iraqi, Fakhruddin It speaks to me in the silence of this one
  Jacobsen, Rolf The Silence Afterwards
  Jimenez, Juan Ramon I Am Not I
  Kabir still the body
  Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) In the pre-dawn hours
  Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) Look into the mirror of a loving heart
  Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) Take Refuge in Silence
  Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) The mountain stands steady in its grandeur,
  Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) The Way To Peace
  Kerouac, Jack The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
  Khayyam, Omar [63] None answer'd this; but after Silence spake
  Ko Un Indangsu sea, shine dark blue,
  Lalla (Ded, Lal) Word, Thought, Kula and Akula cease to be there!
  Lawrence, D. H. Deeper Than Love
  Lee, Li-Young Nativity
  Lee, Li-Young Night Mirror
  Lee, Li-Young Out of Hiding
  Levertov, Denise Illustrious Ancestors
  Levertov, Denise The Fountain
  Machado, Antonio Siesta
  Maharshi, Ramana The Marital Garland of Letters
  Maharshi, Ramana The Song of the Poppadum
  Mathias, Michael The Tower of Silence
  Mathias, Michael (2) Dukkha - The Cause of All Suffering (from The Cosmic Soul and the World Tree)
  Mathias, Michael (6) Ramana Seeks out the Mountain of Arunachala (from The Cosmic Soul and the World Tree)
  Mathias, Michael (10) The Tree of Kabbalah - The Kiss (from The Cosmic Soul and the World Tree)
  McCombs, Chris Go Deeper
  McCombs, Chris Roos O Shab
  McCombs, Chris Swan Born
  McCombs, Chris The Student & The Sage
  McCombs, Chris Your Pilot
  Mei, Yuan Just Done
  Merton, Thomas A Messenger from the Horizon
  Merton, Thomas A Practical Program for Monks
  Merton, Thomas Aubade -- The City
  Merton, Thomas In Silence
  Merton, Thomas Night-Flowering Cactus
  Merton, Thomas Stranger
  Merton, Thomas The Sowing of Meanings
  Meshullam da Piera Song at Dawn
  Nasimi, Imadeddin Both worlds within my compass come, but this world cannot compass me.
  Nevins, Shawn From far across the green hills,
  Nevins, Shawn I AM
  Nevins, Shawn Listen for the sound of no wind.
  Niffari (an-Niffari, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan) The Standing "My Time Has Come"
  Nirmala it is here
  Nirmala why fear this moment
  Novalis Uplifted is the stone --
  O'Donohue, John A Blessing for Equilibrium
  O'Donohue, John A Blessing for One Who is Exhausted
  O'Donohue, John The Inner History of a Day
  Oliver, Colin The Blue Chair
  Oliver, Mary Praying
  Oliver, Mary Spring
  Oliver, Mary This World
  Osborne, Arthur Be Still
  Po, Li In the Quiet Night
  Porete, Marguerite Humility
  Porete, Marguerite O Lover of gentle nature,
  Reninger, Elizabeth BirdBath
  Reninger, Elizabeth Late Autumn
  Reninger, Elizabeth Reflection
  Reninger, Elizabeth Wood Pile
  Rilke, Rainer Maria I am, O Anxious One. Don't you hear my voice
  Rilke, Rainer Maria Silent friend of many distances, feel
  Rilke, Rainer Maria The Second Elegy (from The Duino Elegies)
  Rilke, Rainer Maria To Music
  Rosenstock, Gabriel (33) I create silences (from Uttering Her Name)
  Rosenstock, Gabriel (61) in a Transylvanian mud-bath (from Uttering Her Name)
  Rumi, Jelaluddin [1115] The minute I'm disappointed, I feel encouraged.
  Rumi, Jelaluddin You are closer to me than myself (Ghazal 2798)
  Ryokan The winds have died, but flowers go on falling;
  Sanai, Hakim Meditation
  Sanai, Hakim The Wild Rose of Praise
  silent lotus Entrapped
  silent lotus Feel the Peace
  silent lotus Hurdles
  silent lotus In the Clearing
  silent lotus The Hush
  silent lotus The Temple Walls
  silent lotus There Dwells an Innocence
  Sinan, Ummi The Rose
  Singh, Darshan How did I ever think silence the language of love?
  Solovyov, Vladimir All in azure today
  Solovyov, Vladimir Sophia in Egypt (from Three Meetings)
  Solovyov, Vladimir Three Meetings
  Stein, Edith I Will Remain With You...
  Tagore, Rabindranath (84) It is the pang of separation that spreads throughout the world (from Gitanjali)
  Tagore, Rabindranath (103) In one salutation to thee, my God (from Gitanjali)
  Teresa of Avila In the Hands of God
  Therese of Lisieux The Atom of Jesus-Host
  Tilopa Song of the Mahamudra (Tilopa's Song to Naropa)
  Tu Fu Visiting the Monastery at Lung-men
  Tukaram Thou art more kind than mother dear,
  Vaughan, Henry The Night
  Walters, Dorothy Still Life
  Whyte, David All the True Vows
  Whyte, David It is Not Enough
  Wordsworth, William Such was the Boy--but for the growing Youth (from The Excursion, Book 1)
  Yogananda, Paramahansa God! God! God!
  Yogananda, Paramahansa Prayer for the Great Enlightenment
  Yogananda, Paramahansa Samadhi
  Yoka Genkaku (Xuanjue, Yongjia) [22] I have entered the deep mountains to silence and beauty; (from The Shodoka)
  Zorman, Alenka no one on the mountain


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