Mirabai

By Poet Seers

16th Century devotional poet who composed over 1,000 devotional bhajans expressing her love for Lord Krishna.

Haikai No Renga (Linked Verses)

By Basho

exploring the life and work of 17th-century Japanese haiku master

Just as the Winged Energy of Delight

By Rainer Maria Rilke

Take your well-disciplined strengths and stretch them between two opposing poles. Because inside human beings is where God learns.

Carrying the Songs

By Moya Cannon

"Those in power write the history, those who suffer write the songs" –Frank Harte

My religion is to live through Love

By Rumi

The seagull fears no shipwreck. Her feet love to touch the ocean...

Guidepost of Silent Illumination

By Master Hongzhi

Silent and serene, forgetting words, bright clarity appears before you.

Brahma

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, I am the hymn the Brahmin sings.

I played day and night

By Kabir and Rabindranath Tagore

I played day and night with my comrades, and now I am greatly afraid...

Caged Bird

By Maya Angelou

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams... his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream... his wings are clipped and his feet are tied... so he opens his throat to sing.

Black Spirituals as Poetry and Resistance

By Kaitlyn Greenidge

These songs — the oldest musical expressions of the slave experience in this country — still have a lot to teach us about how we think about death and dignity.

Poems by Cold Mountain

By Red Pine

From Emergence Magazine: Set amid pine forests and mountain peaks, three ancient Chinese poems, sung and translated by Red Pine, meditate on the nature of Taoism and Zen Buddhism.

The SANDs of Time Flow Through Space Arrive as Knowledge

By Newcomb Greenleaf

Consciousness is not a thing. Asking “What is consciousness?” is like asking “Where does light come from?”, while watching a movie.

Peace Is This Moment Without Judgment

By Dorothy Hunt

Do you think peace requires an end to war? Or tigers eating only vegetables?

Earth Verse

By Gary Snyder

Wide enough to keep you looking ... Open enough to keep you moving ...

White-Eyes

By Mary Oliver

thicken, and begin to fall into the world below like stars, or the feathers of some unimaginable bird

For What Binds Us

By Jane Hirshfield

And when two people have loved each other see how it is like a scar between their bodies, stronger, darker, and proud;

1979

By Wendell Berry

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.

Aware

By Denise Levertov

A poem about a moment of wonder observing vine leaves.

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How to Be Alone

By Pádraig Ó Tuama, A Poetry Film by Leo G Franchi from OnBeing

Don't Make Lists

By Dorothy Walters

Every day a new flower rises from your body's fresh soil...

Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

A poem on the impact of resurrection.

Tears

By Svein Myreng

Your tears in my eyes... My tears in your eyes...

Untitled

By Dagmar Iris Holl

A red fox strides past the house of the man who waits for the fox

Stand as if you see God

By Ben Bushill

Stand as if you see creation before your eyes and know know that your belonging is undeniable and complete...