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Category Archives: Poetry by others
Everything is Waiting for You by David Whyte
Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a progressive and cunning crime with no witness to the tiny hidden transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your … Continue reading
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This Flower Alone by Lyla June Johnson
This flower alone, which at once is beauty is rooted in beauty and whose petals reach out to beauty This flower alone, whose quiet song is drowned by the blasts and by the evening news of the modern world (but … Continue reading
Go To The Limits Of Your Longing –
“Go to the Limits of Your Longing” from the Book Of Hours by Rainer Maria Rilke translation by Joanna Macy + Anita Barrows God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of … Continue reading
A Map to the Next World – by Joy Harjo
In the last days of the fourth world I wished to make a map for those who would climb through the hole in the sky. My only tools were the desires of humans as they emerged from the killing fields, … Continue reading
Words from Chameli Ardagh & David Whyte.
Longing for the real: It requires an awesome vulnerability to step out of the numbing comfort of casualness, out of the confinement of the small me-plan, finding yourself trembling in the unknown land beyond the limits of who you have … Continue reading
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A Walk – 1924 by Rainer Maria Rilke
I want to share one of my favourite short poems. Rilke is speaking of something elusive and subtle – hard to grasp. But to me thats the point, that is where the longing is, just beyond my grasp. And yet … Continue reading
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Santiago by David Whyte
I have been meaning to post a poem by David Whyte, whose work I admire and a friend on Facebook just posted this. I loved it, so am pleased to include it in my blog: SANTIAGO The road seen, then … Continue reading
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Willing to experience …….
I came across this beautiful invocation by John Wellwood and find it speaks to me so clearly, I just had to post it here. Willing to experience aloneness I discover connection everywhere. Turning to face my fear I meet the … Continue reading
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Come To The River – Rumi
Come! Take a pick-axe And break apart Your stony self. The heart’s matrix is glutted with rubies. Springs of laughter are buried in your breast. Unstop the wine jar Batter down the door to the treasury of nonexistence. The water … Continue reading
Sometimes
‘Mandala of life’ by Paul Swatridge Sometimes, when a bird cries out, Or the wind sweeps through a tree, Or a dog howls in a far off farm, I hold still and listen a long time. My soul turns and … Continue reading
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