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A Morning Offering |
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Beannacht / Blessing |
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For Freedom |
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For Presence |
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In Praise of the Earth |
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Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said Rise early at dawn, when our storytelling begins |
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Adyashanti A Tendency to Shine |
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Adyashanti Today I Awoke |
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AE (Russell, George William) Unity |
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Ammons, A. R. Still |
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Andal The lotus is greeting the rising sun and the lily has closed its petals; (from Tiruppavai) |
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Angelou, Maya A Brave and Startling Truth |
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Angelou, Maya Caged Bird |
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Angelou, Maya Still I Rise |
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Ansari, Khwaja Abdullah Empty Me of Everything But Your Love |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The Nightingale |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The peacock's excuse |
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Aurobindo Reminiscence |
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Basho, Matsuo Fever-felled half-way |
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Battacharya, Mahendranath Screening its face amongst lotus stalks |
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Battacharya, Mahendranath Tell me, what are you doing now, Mind |
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Berry, Wendell Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front |
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Berry, Wendell The Peace of Wild Things |
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Berry, Wendell The Wish to Be Generous |
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Blake, William Awake! awake O sleeper of the land of shadows (from Jerusalem) |
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Blake, William Of the Sleep of Ulro! and of the passage through (from Jerusalem) |
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Booth, Philip Saying It |
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Brabazon, Francis Once God, that Great Being (from Stay With God) |
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Brabazon, Francis The Dawn-Song Of His Mouth (from Stay With God) |
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Broughton, James Having Come This Far |
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Broughton, James The Gardener of Eden |
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Bulleh Shah Bulleh! to me, I am not known |
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Bulleh Shah You alone exist; I do not, O Beloved! |
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Chiyo-ni, Fukuda a dandelion |
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement |
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Colliver, Andrew Nocturne |
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Crashaw, Richard To the Name above every Name, the Name of Jesus |
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cummings, e. e. i am a little church(no great cathedral) |
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cummings, e. e. i thank You God for most this amazing |
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cummings, e. e. now does our world descend |
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Dadu Dayal So priceless is the birth, O brother |
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Dogen, Eihei Like tangled hair |
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Dogen, Eihei One of six verses composed in An'yoin Temple in Fukakusa, 1230: |
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Feuerstein, Georg Squaring the Circle |
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Fox, John Home Equity |
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Galib, Seyh Love is a lamp of God, I am its moth |
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Gibran, Kahlil Bewildered |
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Gibran, Kahlil Good and Evil |
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Giraut de Bornelh Reis glorios / Glorious king |
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Gorakhnath Gorakh Bani |
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Granger, Ivan M. Fidelity |
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Hafiz It Is Time to Wake Up! |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) Covers Her Face with Both Hands |
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Halevi, Judah O My Lord, Your dwelling places are lovely |
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Hallaj, Mansur al- If They Only Knew |
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Han-Ch'ing, Kuan Idle Wandering |
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Han-shan (Cold Mountain) Beneath high cliffs I live alone |
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Hanh, Thich Nhat Please Call Me by My True Names |
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Heschel, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Intimate Hymn |
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Hirshfield, Jane The Task |
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Holderlin, Friedrich Remembrance |
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Holderlin, Friedrich Hyperion's Song of Destiny |
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Holderlin, Friedrich All the Fruit... |
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Holderlin, Friedrich Bread and Wine, Part 7 |
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Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [4] Once we awaken to the Tathagata-Zen (from The Shodoka) |
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ibn Gabirol, Solomon Lord of the World |
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Ikkyu (Sojun, Ikkyu) To write something and leave it behind us |
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Iqbal, Allama Muhammad To the Saqi (from Baal-i-Jibreel) |
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Islam, Nazrul Come silently like the Moon |
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Islam, Nazrul Let's Meet Hereafter! |
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Islam, Nazrul O Nightingale! |
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Islam, Nazrul Syama wakes on the cremation grounds |
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Jacobsen, Rolf When They Sleep |
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Kabir O Slave, liberate yourself |
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Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) What mind can possibly approach you |
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Kalidasa Exhortation of the Dawn |
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Kerouac, Jack The Scripture of the Golden Eternity |
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Khayyam, Omar [2] Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky |
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Kobra, Najmoddin What never existed |
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Krishnamurti, Jiddu Song of the Beloved (from The Immortal Friend) |
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Kuzminsky, Irina A Sequence of Embraces |
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Lalan How the days drag |
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Lawrence, D. H. Pax |
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Lee, Li-Young Become Becoming |
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Lee, Li-Young Night Mirror |
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Leon, Luis de Ode to Francisco Salinas |
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Leon, Luis de The Life Removed |
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Levertov, Denise Seeing for a Moment |
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Levine, Stephen Half life |
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Llull, Ramon January (from The Book of the Lover and Beloved) |
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Machado, Antonio Last night, as I was sleeping [Bly] |
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Machado, Antonio Proverbs and Songs |
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Machado, Antonio Songs |
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Machado, Antonio The Waterwheel |
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Maharshi, Ramana The Marital Garland of Letters |
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Marpa (Lotsawa, Marpa) Realisation of Dreams and Mind |
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McCombs, Chris Is This Your Time? |
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Meher Baba The Beloved's Poem on His Dhuni |
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Merton, Thomas The Sowing of Meanings |
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Meshullam da Piera Song at Dawn |
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Mueller, Lisel Monet Refuses the Operation |
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Namdev He is the One in many |
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Naropa The View, Concisely Put |
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Nematollah Vali, Shah The Point of the Circle |
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Neruda, Pablo Too Many Names |
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Nirmala A lasting marriage |
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Nirmala why fear this moment |
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O'Donohue, John For a New Beginning |
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Oliver, Mary Mysteries, Yes |
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Oliver, Mary Spring |
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Oliver, Mary Thirst |
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Osborne, Arthur Death |
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P'ang Yun (Layman P'ang) No-greed surpasses charity |
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Pampattic Cittar One must delve deep |
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Po Chu-i Staying at Bamboo Lodge |
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Pope, Alexander Solitude: An Ode |
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Rahman Baba Antics of the Age |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Kulakundalini, Goddess Full of Brahman, Tara |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Once for all, this time |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) So I say: Mind, don't you sleep |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Why disappear into formless trance? |
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Ramsay, Jay At Fintry House |
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Ramsay, Jay I saw a great light come down over London |
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Ramsay, Jay In the Aber Valley |
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Ramsay, Jay Infinity and Beyond |
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Ramsay, Jay Sadhu |
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Ramsay, Jay Sadhu |
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Ramsay, Jay St. Ives |
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Ravidas When I existed |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria For your sake poets sequester themselves |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria I am praying again, Awesome One |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria I find you, Lord, in all Things and in all |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria We are the driving ones |
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Roethke, Theodore The Waking |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel not the slaked thirst of Bayazid |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel (8) Barefoot (from Year of the Goddess) |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Inner Wakefulness |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Seizing my life in your hands, you thrashed me clean |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin That moon which the sky never saw |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin The real work belongs to someone who desires God |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Today, like every other day, we wake up empty |
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Saraha The Royal Song of Saraha (Dohakosa) |
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Sarton, May New Year Resolve |
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Sarton, May The Work of Happiness |
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Saure, Gunter The Meeting |
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Shushtari, Abu al-Hasan al- My art |
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silent lotus Feel the Peace |
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silent lotus In the Clearing |
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Snyder, Gary At Tower Peak |
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Snyder, Gary Earth Verse |
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Solovyov, Vladimir The Sign |
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Solovyov, Vladimir Three Meetings |
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Solovyov, Vladimir Near, far off, not here, not there |
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Soseki, Muso Buddha's Satori |
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Stafford, William Being a Person |
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Stafford, William Vocation |
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Stafford, William Yes |
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Stein, Edith Novena Of The Holy Spirit |
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Symeon the New Theologian We awaken in Christ's body |
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Szymborska, Wislawa I'm Working on the World |
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Tagore, Rabindranath On many an idle day have I grieved over lost time (from Gitanjali) |
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Teasdale, Sara It Is Not a Word |
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Teasdale, Sara Oh You Are Coming |
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Teasdale, Sara The Fountain |
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Tennyson, Alfred The Higher Pantheism |
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Thomas, R. S. Lore |
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Thompson, Francis The Hound of Heaven |
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Tilopa Song of the Mahamudra (Tilopa's Song to Naropa) |
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Tolkien, J. R. R. The Road Goes Ever On |
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Traherne, Thomas Love |
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Trungpa, Chogyam The Education of the Warrior |
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Tsvetaeva, Marina I know the truth |
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Tu Fu Visiting the Monastery at Lung-men |
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Tukaram If only you would |
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Tukaram This heart of mine is determined that for me now |
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Ungar, Lynn Camas Lilies |
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Ungar, Lynn The Way It Is |
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Vivekananda Song of the Sanyasin |
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Walters, Dorothy Gifts |
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Wei, Wang Stone Gate Temple in the Blue Field Mountains |
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Whitman, Walt I think I could turn and live with animals |
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Whitman, Walt O Captain! my Captain! |
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Yeats, William Butler Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven |
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Yeats, William Butler The Secret Rose |
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Yogananda, Paramahansa God! God! God! |
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Yogananda, Paramahansa OM |
