About poetry commentary --
My observations on these poems should not be read as the single, absolute meaning. A poem, like a dream, has layers of meaning -- and that meaning can shift over time and from differing perspectives. My commentary is offered in order to suggest a starting point for you to begin your own exploration into the poem's meaning. Even if my explanation feels right on the mark, please don't stop there. We must discover each poem's meaning for ourselves; otherwise the poem and its explanation remain largely trapped in the intellect. Sacred poetry is transformative poetry. Until we feel a poem working its alchemy on our own awareness, we haven't discovered its heart...
~ Ivan
| Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said A pious one with a hundred beads on your rosary |
| Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said Detached You are, even from your being |
| Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said If you do not give up the crowds |
| Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said Love came |
| Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said Piousness and the path of love |
| Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said Rise early at dawn, when our storytelling begins |
| Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said Sorrow looted this heart |
| Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said The sum total of our life is a breath |
| Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said Though burning has become an old habit for this heart |
| Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said When the desire for the Friend became real |
| Abulafia, Rabbi Abraham A Holy Tabernacle in the Heart (from Life of the Future World) |
| Abulafia, Rabbi Abraham Circles 4 (from Life of the Future World) |
| Abulafia, Rabbi Abraham Their mystery is (from Life of the Future World) |
| Adyashanti So Cheap |
| AE (Russell, George William) Star Teachers |
| AE (Russell, George William) The Place of Rest |
| Akhmatova, Anna A land not mine, still |
| al-Alawi, Ahmad Layla |
| Alighieri, Dante The love of God, unutterable and perfect |
| Allama Prabhu Light |
| Allama Prabhu Looking for your light |
| Ammons, A. R. An Improvisation for Angular Momentum |
| Ammons, A. R. Eyesight |
| Ammons, A. R. Poetics |
| Ammons, A. R. Still |
| Angelou, Maya A Brave and Startling Truth |
| Angelou, Maya On the Pulse of Morning |
| Angelou, Maya Phenomenal Woman |
| Arabi, Muhyiddin ibn My heart has become able |
| Arabi, Muhyiddin ibn When my Beloved appears |
| Arabi, Muhyiddin ibn While the sun's eye rules my sight |
| Arapaho (Anonymous) Arapaho Ghost Dance Songs |
| Attar, Farid ud-Din Invocation |
| Attar, Farid ud-Din Looking for your own face |
| Attar, Farid ud-Din Mysticism |
| Attar, Farid ud-Din The angels have bowed down to you and drowned |
| Attar, Farid ud-Din The Dullard Sage |
| Attar, Farid ud-Din The Lover |
| Attar, Farid ud-Din The moths and the flame |
| Attar, Farid ud-Din The Nightingale |
| Attar, Farid ud-Din The pilgrim sees no form but His and knows |
| Attar, Farid ud-Din The Simurgh |
| Aurobindo The Word of The Silence |
| Bacharach, Naftali A Poem for the Sefirot as a Wheel of Light |
| Badakhshani, Binavi Clear Wine |
| Basava The eating bowl is not one bronze |
| Basava The pot is a God |
| Basava The Temple and the Body |
| Basava The waters of joy |
| Basava Where they feed the fire |
| Basho, Matsuo A banana plant in the autumn gale |
| Basho, Matsuo awakened |
| Basho, Matsuo Come, let's go |
| Basho, Matsuo Crow's |
| Basho, Matsuo Skylark |
| Basho, Matsuo Year's end |
| Battacharya, Mahendranath Screening its face amongst lotus stalks |
| Battacharya, Mahendranath Tell me, what are you doing now, Mind |
| Bays, Hogen In this passing moment |
| Bedil, Abdul-Qader Creation's Witness |
| Bedil, Abdul-Qader His Living Proof |
| Berry, Wendell A Spiritual Journey |
| Berry, Wendell Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front |
| Berry, Wendell Sabbaths 1985, V |
| Berry, Wendell Sabbaths 1999, VII |
| Berry, Wendell Testament |
| Berry, Wendell The Real Work |
| Berry, Wendell The Wild Geese |
| Blake, William Awake! awake O sleeper of the land of shadows (from Jerusalem) |
| Blake, William The Divine Image |
| Brabazon, Francis Dawn is a Friend |
| Broughton, James Not dawdling |
| Bulleh Shah Bulleh! to me, I am not known |
| Bulleh Shah One Thread Only |
| Bulleh Shah Remove duality and do away with all disputes |
| Bulleh Shah Repeating the name of the Beloved |
| Buson Clinging to the bell |
| Buson On these southern roads |
| Buson This cold winter night |
| Catherine of Siena We were enclosed (from Prayer 20) |
| Cavafy, Constantine P. Ithaca |
| Chikako, Jusammi On this summer night |
| Ching-Yuen, Loy No use fretting over gold, beauty or fame; |
| Chinmoy Flames |
| Civivakkiyar In bricks and in granite |
| Clare of Assisi Draw me after You! |
| Clare of Assisi Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! |
| Clare of Assisi What you hold, may you always hold |
| Clare of Assisi When You have loved, You shall be chaste |
| Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Kubla Khan |
| Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Reason |
| Colliver, Andrew Good Medicine |
| Colliver, Andrew Nocturne |
| cummings, e. e. i thank You God for most this amazing |
| cummings, e. e. love is a place |
| Dasimayya, Devara Suppose you cut a tall bamboo |
| Dasimayya, Devara The Hovering One |
| Dasimayya, Devara To the utterly at-one with Siva |
| Dasimayya, Devara What can I hurt now |
| Dasimayya, Devara Whatever It was |
| Dickinson, Emily I'm ceded--I've stopped being Theirs |
| Dickinson, Emily Me from Myself -- to banish |
| Dickinson, Emily Some keep the Sabbath going to the Church |
| Dickinson, Emily Take Your Heaven further on |
| Dickinson, Emily There came a Day at Summer's full |
| Dickinson, Emily 'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! |
| Dickinson, Emily Who has not found the Heaven--below |
| Dionysius the Areopagite from The Doctrine of Infinite Growth |
| Dogen, Eihei Above all, don't wish to become a future Buddha |
| Dogen, Eihei Ching-ch'ing's raindrop sound |
| Dogen, Eihei Impermanence |
| Dogen, Eihei In the stream |
| Dogen, Eihei One of six verses on snow: |
| Dogen, Eihei True person manifest throughout the ten quarters of the world |
| Dogen, Eihei Worship |
| Eldar Edda (Anonymous) Odin's Shaman Song (from Eldar Edda) |
| Eliot, T. S. I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you (from Four Quartets) |
| Emre, Yunus Knowledge should mean a full grasp of knowledge: |
| Emre, Yunus Let's Take Yunus Emre |
| Emre, Yunus Those who became complete |
| Emre, Yunus True speech is the fruit of not speaking |
| Emre, Yunus We encountered the house of realization |
| Farid, Baba Sheikh I thought I was alone who suffered |
| Feng-kan (Big Stick) Actually there isn't a thing |
| Feuerstein, Georg Odin's Ordeal |
| Francis of Assisi Let the whole of mankind tremble |
| Francis of Assisi Prayer Inspired by the Our Father |
| Francis of Assisi The Canticle of Brother Sun |
| Francis of Assisi The Canticle of Brother Sun |
| Francis of Assisi The Praises of God |
| Francis of Assisi The Prayer Before the Crucifix |
| Galib, Seyh Love is a lamp of God, I am its moth |
| Ganjavi, Mahsati The Pathway Finally Opened |
| Gascoigne, Dame Catherine One thing alone I crave / Unum sit mihi totum |
| Ghalib, Mirza Let the ascetics sing of the garden of Paradise |
| Ghalib, Mirza The drop dies in the river |
| Ghalib, Mirza The Footprint |
| Gibran, Kahlil Bewildered |
| Gibran, Kahlil Giving |
| Gibran, Kahlil Good and Evil |
| Gibran, Kahlil Pain |
| Gibran, Kahlil Reason and Passion |
| Gibran, Kahlil Self-Knowledge |
| Gikatilla, Joseph The Nut Garden |
| Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Ha! A rush of bliss (from Faust) |
| Govindasvami Holy sixth day |
| Granger, Ivan M. Adi Atman 9: you you |
| Granger, Ivan M. Bent |
| Granger, Ivan M. City Fox |
| Granger, Ivan M. Every Shaped Thing |
| Granger, Ivan M. Holy Ground |
| Granger, Ivan M. How Can I Explain? |
| Granger, Ivan M. Medusa |
| Granger, Ivan M. Parched |
| Granger, Ivan M. Rain Upcountry |
| Granger, Ivan M. The Warbler Knows |
| Granger, Ivan M. Thief of hearts |
| Granger, Ivan M. Twelve Ways to Lose Your Head on Maui |
| Granum Sinapis (Anonymous) Granum Sinapis |
| Gyatso, Kelsang Little Tiger |
| Hadewijch All things |
| Hadewijch Love has subjugated me |
| Hadewijch The Queen of Sheba |
| Hafiz A New World |
| Hafiz Cupbearer, it is morning, fill my cup with wine |
| Hafiz If life remains, I shall go back to the tavern |
| Hafiz It Is Time to Wake Up! |
| Hafiz Spring and all its flowers |
| Hafiz Sun Rays |
| Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) A Still Cup |
| Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) No Conflict |
| Hakuin Past, present, future: unattainable |
| Hakuin The monkey is reaching |
| Hallaj, Mansur al- I Witnessed My Maker |
| Hallaj, Mansur al- If They Only Knew |
| Hallaj, Mansur al- Kill me, my faithful friends |
| Hallaj, Mansur al- You glide between the heart and its casing |
| Hallaj, Mansur al- You Went Away but Remained in Me |
| Hallaj, Mansur al- Your spirit is mingled with mine |
| Hamadani, Ayn al-Qozat Nonexistence |
| Hamadani, Ayn al-Qozat Within the eye of the eye |
| Han-shan (Cold Mountain) Above Cold Mountain the moon shines alone |
| Han-shan (Cold Mountain) Children I implore you |
| Han-shan (Cold Mountain) Here's a message for the faithful |
| Han-shan (Cold Mountain) Someone lives in a mountain gorge |
| Han-shan (Cold Mountain) This rare and heavenly creature |
| Hanh, Thich Nhat Interrelationship |
| Hanh, Thich Nhat Please Call Me by My True Names |
| Hanh, Thich Nhat Walking Meditation |
| Hao-jan, Meng Master I's Chamber in the Ta-yu Temple |
| Hawaiian (Anonymous) Ho'opuka E Ka La (Rise, O Sun) |
| Hayati, Bibi Before there was a hint of civilization |
| Hayati, Bibi How can I see the splendor of the moon |
| Hayati, Bibi Is it the night of power |
| Hekhalot Hymns (Anonymous) The Face of God |
| Herbert, George Church Monuments |
| Herbert, George The Altar |
| Herbert, George The Elixir |
| Heschel, Rabbi Abraham Joshua The Word Most Precious |
| Hildegard von Bingen Ave generosa / Hymn to the Virgin |
| Hildegard von Bingen Laus Trinitati / Antiphon for the Trinity |
| Hildegard von Bingen O Euchari in leta via / Sequence for Saint Eucharius |
| Hildegard von Bingen O ignis Spiritus Paracliti / Sequence for the Holy Spirit |
| Hildegard von Bingen O most noble Greenness, rooted in the sun |
| Hildegard von Bingen O nobilissima viriditas / Responsory for Virgins |
| Hildegard von Bingen O spectabiles viri / Antiphon for Patriarchs and Prophets |
| Hildegard von Bingen O virga mediatrix / Alleluia-verse for the Virgin |
| Hirshfield, Jane The Task |
| Hirshfield, Jane Tree |
| Holderlin, Friedrich All the Fruit... |
| Hopkins, Gerard Manley God's Grandeur |
| Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [14] The best student goes directly to the ultimate (from The Shodoka) |
| Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [16] When I consider the virtue of abusive words (from The Shodoka) |
| Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [19] Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen (from The Shodoka) |
| Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [25] Just take hold of the source (from The Shodoka) |
| Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [46] People hear the Buddha's doctrine of immediacy (from The Shodoka) |
| Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [48] In the sandalwood forest, there is no other tree (from The Shodoka) |
| Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [52] From my youth I piled studies upon studies (from The Shodoka) |
| Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [55] Not supposing something is the Tathagata (from The Shodoka) |
| Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [60] The remarkable power of emancipation (from The Shodoka) |
| Ibn al-Farid, Umar Compared to my dawn (from The Poem of the Sufi Way) |
| Ibn al-Farid, Umar I sought her from myself (from The Poem of the Sufi Way) |
| Ibn al-Farid, Umar In memory of the beloved (from The Wine Ode (al-Khamriyah)) |
| Ibn al-Farid, Umar In truth, I led my prayer leader in prayer (from The Poem of the Sufi Way) |
| Ibn al-Farid, Umar Resist the calls of wrangling talk (from The Poem of the Sufi Way) |
| Ibn al-Farid, Umar Unveiling herself revealed (from The Poem of the Sufi Way) |
| Ibn al-Farid, Umar Whispering, then listening close (from The Poem of the Sufi Way) |
| Ibn Ata' Illah How utterly amazing is someone who flees from something he cannot escape |
| ibn Gabirol, Solomon Ecstasy |
| ibn Gabirol, Solomon Rise and open the door that is shut |
| ibn Gabirol, Solomon Thou Livest |
| Ikkyu (Sojun, Ikkyu) A Fisherman |
| Ikkyu (Sojun, Ikkyu) Every day, priests minutely examine the Law |
| Ikkyu (Sojun, Ikkyu) inside the koan clear mind |
| Iraqi, Fakhruddin As sunlight is attributed to the moon, so is the Beloved's form ascribed to the lover; but in truth |
| Iraqi, Fakhruddin Everywhere veiled |
| Iraqi, Fakhruddin Love plays its lute behind the screen |
| Iraqi, Fakhruddin My eyes so fix |
| Iraqi, Fakhruddin The world but seems to be |
| Iraqi, Fakhruddin These perfumes |
| Iraqi, Fakhruddin Whether they know Thee or not |
| Issa, Kobayashi Autumn wind |
| Issa, Kobayashi Buddha's body |
| Issa, Kobayashi Don't weep, insects |
| Issa, Kobayashi From burweed |
| Issa, Kobayashi In my hut |
| Issa, Kobayashi into morning-glories |
| Issa, Kobayashi Never forget |
| Issa, Kobayashi Reflected |
| Issa, Kobayashi stillness |
| Issa, Kobayashi Where there are humans |
| Izzet, Asik Ali The Path of the Beautiful |
| Jacobsen, Rolf Moon and Apple |
| Jacobsen, Rolf When They Sleep |
| Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) As air becomes the medium for light when the sun rises |
| Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) Love beyond all telling (from Self-Annihilation and Charity Lead the Soul...) |
| Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) Love, where did You enter the heart unseen? (from In Praise of Divine Love) |
| Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) Now, a new creature |
| Jakushitsu Gathering Tea |
| Jakushitsu Sitting in the Mountains |
| Jan, Chiao To Be Shown to the Monks at a Certain Temple |
| Janabai You leave your greatness behind you |
| Jimenez, Juan Ramon I Am Not I |
| Jimenez, Juan Ramon Oceans |
| Jimenez, Juan Ramon Who Knows What is Going On |
| Jnanadev Knowledge and Ignorance (from Amritanubhav) |
| Jnanadev The Union of Shiva and Shakti (from Amritanubhav) |
| John of the Cross Dark Night |
| John of the Cross I Came Into the Unknown |
| John of the Cross Love's Living Flame |
| John of the Cross On the Communion of the Three Persons (from Romance on the Gospel) |
| John of the Cross The Fountain |
| John of the Cross The Sum of Perfection |
| Kabir Between the conscious and the unconscious, the mind has put up a swing |
| Kabir He's that rascally kind of yogi |
| Kabir Hey brother, why do you want me to talk? |
| Kabir My body is flooded |
| Kabir The Drop and the Sea |
| Kabir The Lord is in Me |
| Kabir Within this earthen vessel |
| Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) In the cloud raindrops swirl |
| Kalidasa Exhortation of the Dawn |
| Kalidasa Waking |
| Kamalakanta Ever-blissful Kali |
| Kamalakanta Is my black Mother Syama really black? |
| Kamalakanta O Kali, my Mother full of Bliss! |
| Kamalakanta The black bee of my mind is drawn in sheer delight |
| Kanaka'ole, Edith E ho mai |
| Kerouac, Jack The Scripture of the Golden Eternity |
| Khayyam, Omar [10] With me along the strip of Herbage strown |
| Khayyam, Omar [11] Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough |
| Khayyam, Omar [32] There was a Door to which I found no Key |
| Khayyam, Omar [4] Now the New Year reviving old Desires |
| Khayyam, Omar [41 - later edition] Perplext no more with Human or Divine Perplext no more with Human or Divine |
| Khayyam, Omar [42 - later edition] Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit |
| Khayyam, Omar [45] But leave the Wise to wrangle, and with me |
| Khayyam, Omar [46] For in and out, above, about, below |
| Khayyam, Omar [6] And David's Lips are lock't; but in divine |
| Khayyam, Omar [66] So while the Vessels one by one were speaking |
| Khayyam, Omar [71] And much as Wine has play'd the Infidel |
| Khayyam, Omar [74] Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane |
| Khusrow Dehlawi, Amir I Asked |
| Kirmani, Hamid al-Din Swept Away |
| Ko Un Two beggars |
| Krishnamurti, Jiddu I Am All |
| Kuhi of Shiraz, Baba In the market, in the cloister--only God I saw |
| Lakota (Anonymous) Three Lakota Songs |
| Lalan As the man and the woman in me |
| Lalla Coursing in emptiness |
| Lalla Don't flail about like a man wearing a blindfold |
| Lalla I traveled a long way seeking God |
| Lalla Intense cold makes water ice |
| Lalla One shrine to the next, the hermit can't stop for breath |
| Lalla To learn the scriptures is easy |
| Latif Bhitai, Shah Abdul If you are seeking Allah |
| Lawrence, D. H. I Am Like a Rose |
| Lawrence, D. H. Pax |
| Lawrence, D. H. Song of a Man Who Has Come Through |
| Lee, Li-Young Nativity |
| Lee, Li-Young Out of Hiding |
| Lee, Li-Young Praise Them |
| Levertov, Denise Beginners |
| Levertov, Denise Illustrious Ancestors |
| Levertov, Denise Looking, Walking, Being |
| Levertov, Denise Scraps of moon |
| Levertov, Denise The Fountain |
| Levertov, Denise Variation On A Theme By Rilke |
| Levine, Stephen Millennium blessing |
| Llull, Ramon January (from The Book of the Lover and Beloved) |
| Lu Tung Pin People may sit till the cushion is worn through |
| Lu Tung Pin What is Tao? |
| Luria, Isaac A Poem for the Small Face |
| Machado, Antonio [Bly] Last night, as I was sleeping |
| Machado, Antonio Hope says |
| Machado, Antonio I dreamt you took me |
| Machado, Antonio Last night, as I was sleeping |
| Machado, Antonio Lord, You Tore from Me |
| Machado, Antonio Proverbs and Songs |
| Machado, Antonio Songs |
| Maghribi, Muhammad Shirin Each Way I Turned |
| Maghribi, Muhammad Shirin O End of Every Beginning |
| Maghribi, Muhammad Shirin The Moon of Your Love |
| Maghsoud, Moulana Shah Go to the Winery and exchange your robe for a drink of wine |
| Maghsoud, Moulana Shah The verbal unity comes from the words |
| Mahadevi, Akka It was like a stream |
| Mahadevi, Akka Through Thee have I forgotten Thee! |
| Mahadevi, Akka You are the forest |
| Mahadevi, Akka You can confiscate |
| Maharshi, Ramana The Song of the Poppadum |
| Maneri, Sharafuddin Here there is no we or I or this or that |
| Masahide Barn's burnt down |
| McCombs, Chris Is This Your Time? |
| Mechthild of Magdeburg A fish cannot drown in water |
| Mechthild of Magdeburg Effortlessly |
| Mechthild of Magdeburg Then shall I leap into love |
| Mei, Yuan P'u-t'o Temple |
| Merton, Thomas A Practical Program for Monks |
| Merton, Thomas A Psalm |
| Merton, Thomas Follow my ways and I will lead you |
| Merton, Thomas In Silence |
| Merton, Thomas Stranger |
| Merton, Thomas The Fall |
| Merton, Thomas The Sowing of Meanings |
| Milarepa The Profound Definitive Meaning |
| Milarepa The Song of Food and Dwelling |
| Milarepa The Song of Perfect Assurance (to the Demons) |
| Milarepa The Song on Reaching the Mountain Peak |
| Milosz, Czeslaw Forget |
| Milosz, Czeslaw Late Ripeness |
| Milosz, Czeslaw Love |
| Milosz, Czeslaw On Angels |
| Mipham Rinpoche, Sakyong Fortunate Birth |
| Mirabai I am true to my Lord |
| Mirabai No one knows my invisible life |
| Mirabai O I saw witchcraft tonight |
| Mirabai Out in a downpour |
| Mirabai The Beloved Comes Home |
| Mirabai The Dagger |
| Mirabai The Heat of Midnight Tears |
| Mirabai Unbreakable, O Lord |
| Misri, Niyazi Now No Trace Remains |
| Muhaiyaddeen, Bawa There is One God |
| Muktabai Where darkness is gone I live |
| Muktananda, Swami That which was not, came |
| Nachmanides (Nachman, Moses ben) The Soul Speaks (from Hymn on the Fate of the Soul) |
| Nagarjuna Change |
| Namdev The drum with no drumhead beats |
| Nammalvar O Lord, infinite in Thy glory, |
| Nammalvar The earth and the far-flung sky |
| Nammalvar While I was waiting eagerly for him |
| Nanak, Guru Ek Omkar |
| Nasimi, Imadeddin Both worlds within my compass come, but this world cannot compass me |
| Navaho (Anonymous) Navaho Prayer - May it be beautiful |
| Nawaz, Gharib Riddle |
| Nawaz, Gharib The Second Jesus |
| Nematollah Vali, Shah I beheld my essence |
| Nematollah Vali, Shah The Point of the Circle |
| Neruda, Pablo Keeping Quiet |
| Neruda, Pablo Poetry |
| Neruda, Pablo The Poet's Obligation |
| Niffari (an-Niffari, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan) Stand at the throne (from The Standing Of the Presence Chamber and the Letter) |
| Nirmala truth is too simple for words |
| Nirmala why fear this moment |
| Nirmala words do not come |
| Novalis Uplifted is the stone |
| Nurbakhsh, Javad Come! |
| O'Donohue, John A Morning Offering |
| O'Donohue, John Beannacht / Blessing |
| O'Donohue, John For a New Beginning |
| O'Donohue, John For Freedom |
| O'Donohue, John I arise today |
| O'Donohue, John In Praise of the Earth |
| O'Donohue, John On Waking |
| Oliver, Colin Boundless |
| Oliver, Colin Here I see no-one |
| Oliver, Mary Can You Imagine? |
| Oliver, Mary Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches? |
| Oliver, Mary In Blackwater Woods |
| Oliver, Mary Mindful |
| Oliver, Mary The Buddha's Last Instruction |
| Oliver, Mary The Lark |
| Oliver, Mary The Ponds |
| Oliver, Mary What I Have Learned So Far |
| Oliver, Mary When Death Comes |
| Oliver, Mary Wild Geese |
| Oliver, Mary Yes! No! |
| Osborne, Arthur Arunachala |
| P'ang Yun (Layman P'ang) When the mind is at peace |
| Pampattic Cittar Dance o snake |
| Pampattic Cittar One must delve deep |
| Pawnee (Anonymous) Let Us See |
| Pima (Anonymous) Medicine Man's Song |
| Pima (Anonymous) The Creation of the Earth |
| Po, Li Self-Abandonment |
| Po, Li The birds have vanished into the sky |
| Po, Li Yellow Crane Terrace |
| Po, Li You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest |
| Porete, Marguerite Beguines say I err... |
| Porete, Marguerite Beloved, what do you want of me? |
| Porete, Marguerite Humility |
| Porete, Marguerite Peace of charity in the annihilated life |
| Qushayri When morning arose |
| Rabia al-Basri (Adawiyya, Rabia al-) I have two ways of loving You: |
| Rabia al-Basri (Adawiyya, Rabia al-) My joy |
| Rabia al-Basri (Adawiyya, Rabia al-) O God, Another Night is passing away |
| Rabia al-Basri (Adawiyya, Rabia al-) O my Lord, if I worship you |
| Rabjampa, Longchen An Adamantine Song on the Ever-Present |
| Rahman Baba Soul Train |
| Ram Tzu (Liquorman, Wayne) Every time |
| Ram Tzu (Liquorman, Wayne) You think of the Path |
| Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) I drink no ordinary wine |
| Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Mother, am I Thine eight-months child? |
| Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Once for all, this time |
| Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) So I say: Mind, don't you sleep |
| Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) This time I shall devour Thee utterly, Mother Kali! |
| Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Who is that Syama woman |
| Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Why disappear into formless trance? |
| Ramsay, Jay I saw a great light come down over London |
| Rasakhan Enchanted |
| Reninger, Elizabeth Dawn |
| Reninger, Elizabeth True Love |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria Ah, not to be cut off |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria Buddha in Glory |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria I believe in all that has never yet been spoken |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria I find you, Lord, in all Things and in all |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria Silent friend of many distances, feel |
| Roethke, Theodore Was it Light? |
| Rosenstock, Gabriel faint sunlight |
| Rosenstock, Gabriel Fresh Paint / Péint Úr (from The Last Sasquatch) |
| Rosenstock, Gabriel frosty morning |
| Rosenstock, Gabriel to fully explore |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin During the day I was singing with you |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Fasting |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin I'm neither beautiful nor ugly |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Inner Wakefulness |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin look at love |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Love is Here |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin No end to the journey |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin No One Here but Him |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Secret Language |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Suddenly, in the sky at dawn, a moon appeared |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin That moon which the sky never saw |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin The Absolute works with nothing |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin The grapes of my body can only become wine |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin The minute I heard my first love story |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin This moment |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Whoever finds love |
| Ryokan First days of spring -- the sky |
| Ryokan The I Ching States Happiness Lies in the Proper Blend of: |
| Ryokan The thief left it behind |
| Ryokan The winds have died, but flowers go on falling |
| Ryokan Thinking |
| Ryokan This world |
| Ryokan When all thoughts |
| Ryokan You stop to point at the moon in the sky |
| Sa'di If one His praise of me would learn |
| Sanai, Hakim Belief brings me close to You |
| Sanai, Hakim Meditation |
| Sanai, Hakim Mystic Chat |
| Sanai, Hakim Naked in the Bee-House |
| Sanai, Hakim No tongue can tell Your secret |
| Sanai, Hakim Streaming |
| Sanai, Hakim The Good Darkness |
| Sanai, Hakim There is no place for place! |
| Sanai, Hakim When he admits you to his presence |
| Sarmad Every man who knows his secret |
| Sarmad He dwells not only in temples and mosques |
| Sarmad Once I was bathed in the Light of Truth within |
| Sarmast, Sachal Friend, this is the only way |
| Shabistari, Mahmud One Light |
| Shabistari, Mahmud Reason (from The Secret Rose Garden) |
| Shabistari, Mahmud The Beloved Guest (from The Secret Rose Garden) |
| Shabkar (Rangdrol, Shabkar Tsogdruk) All sounds are the resonance of voidness |
| Shabkar (Rangdrol, Shabkar Tsogdruk) The mind has neither color nor form |
| Shankara Nirvana Shatakam |
| Shih Shu as flowing waters disappear into the mist |
| Shih-te (Pickup) Behold the glow of the moon |
| Shih-te (Pickup) Doesn't anyone see |
| Shikibu, Izumi Although the wind |
| Shikibu, Izumi Watching the moon |
| Silesius, Angelus Eternity is time |
| Silesius, Angelus God, whose love and joy are present everywhere |
| Silesius, Angelus In Spirit senses are |
| Sinan, Ummi The Rose |
| Singh, Darshan At dusk, at dawn I gaze upon your beauty |
| Singh, Darshan How did I ever think silence the language of love? |
| Singh, Darshan How should I tell of the feeling that reigns |
| Snyder, Gary At Tower Peak |
| Snyder, Gary How Poetry Comes to Me |
| Snyder, Gary Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout |
| Snyder, Gary No Matter, Never Mind |
| Snyder, Gary On Top |
| Solovyov, Vladimir All in azure today |
| Solovyov, Vladimir Triumphing over death from the start (from Three Meetings) |
| Soseki, Muso Clear Valley |
| Soseki, Muso Toki-no-Ge (Satori Poem) |
| Soseki, Natsume The lamp once out |
| Soseki, Natsume Watch birth and death |
| Stevens, Wallace Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird |
| Sun Buer Refining the Spirit |
| Symeon the New Theologian By what boundless mercy, my Savior |
| Symeon the New Theologian How is it I can love You |
| Symeon the New Theologian The fire rises in me |
| Symeon the New Theologian The Light of Your Way |
| Symeon the New Theologian We awaken in Christ's body |
| Symeon the New Theologian What is this awesome mystery |
| Szekely, Edmond Bordeaux God Speaks to Man |
| Szekely, Edmond Bordeaux I will praise thy works (from The Communions) |
| Szymborska, Wislawa A Contribution to Statistics |
| Szymborska, Wislawa Miracle Fair |
| Tagore, Rabindranath (1) Thou hast made me endless (from Gitanjali) |
| Tagore, Rabindranath (101) Ever in my life have I sought thee with my songs (from Gitanjali) |
| Tagore, Rabindranath (103) In one salutation to thee, my God (from Gitanjali) |
| Tagore, Rabindranath (80) I am like a remnant of a cloud of autumn (from Gitanjali) |
| Tagore, Rabindranath I touch God in my song |
| Tagore, Rabindranath Listen, can you hear it? (from The Lover of God) |
| Tagore, Rabindranath On many an idle day have I grieved over lost time (from Gitanjali) |
| Taliesin A Poem for the Wind |
| Tennyson, Alfred Flower in the crannied wall |
| Tennyson, Alfred The Higher Pantheism |
| Teresa of Avila In the Hands of God |
| Teresa of Avila On Those Words "I am for My Beloved" |
| Teresa of Avila You are Christ's Hands |
| Thomas, R. S. But the silence in the mind |
| Thomas, R. S. The Bright Field |
| Thomas, R. S. The Moor |
| Tolkien, J. R. R. All That is Gold Does Not Glitter (Gandalf's Song of Aragorn) |
| Tolkien, J. R. R. Elbereth |
| Tolkien, J. R. R. Frodo's Lament for Gandalf |
| Tolkien, J. R. R. Gandalf's Song of Lórien |
| Tolkien, J. R. R. One Ring |
| Tolkien, J. R. R. The Song of Beren and Lúthien |
| Tolkien, J. R. R. Upon the hearth the fire is red |
| Traherne, Thomas Love |
| Trungpa, Chogyam Sutra |
| Tsogyel, Yeshe The Supreme Being is the Dakini Queen of the Lake of Awareness! |
| Tsvetaeva, Marina I know the truth |
| Tsvetaeva, Marina The gold that was my hair has turned |
| Tukaram All men to me are god-like Gods! |
| Tulsi Sahib Sound Celestial |
| Tulsi Sahib Within This Body |
| Valad, Sultan The Soul That Does not Live in God is not Alive |
| Vaughan, Henry The Morning Watch |
| Vaughan, Henry The Night |
| Vaughan, Henry Vanity of Spirit |
| Vidyapati All my inhibition left me in a flash |
| Vidyapati As the mirror to my hand |
| Vidyapati The moon has shone upon me |
| Vivekananda In dense darkness, O Mother |
| Walters, Dorothy Hymn to the Nameless One |
| Walters, Dorothy If You Want |
| Walters, Dorothy Preparing to Greet the Goddess |
| Walters, Dorothy The Moment |
| Walters, Dorothy Waiting |
| Wei, Wang Cooling Off |
| Whitman, Walt [1] I celebrate myself, and sing myself (from Song of Myself) |
| Whitman, Walt [17] These are really the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me (from Song of Myself) |
| Whitman, Walt [3] I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end (from Song of Myself) |
| Whitman, Walt [4] Trippers and askers surround me (from Song of Myself) |
| Whitman, Walt [44] It is time to explain myself -- let us stand up (from Song of Myself) |
| Whitman, Walt [5] I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you (from Song of Myself) |
| Whitman, Walt [6] A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands (from Song of Myself) |
| Whyte, David All the True Vows |
| Wordsworth, William Such was the Boy--but for the growing Youth (from The Excursion, Book 1) |
| Wu Men (Hui-k'ai) Moon and clouds are the same |
| Wu Men (Hui-k'ai) One instant is eternity |
| Wu Men (Hui-k'ai) Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn |
| Yakut (Anonymous) Yakut Prayer |
| Yamei In one shrill cry |
| Yannai The Celestial Fire |
| Yeats, William Butler The Lake Isle of Innisfree |
| Yen-shou, Yung-ming Immovable Mind |
| Yitzchak of Berditchov, Levi Where I wander -- You! |
| Yogananda, Paramahansa O Spirit, reveal Thyself as Thou art |
| Yogananda, Paramahansa OM |
| Yogananda, Paramahansa Samadhi |
| Yogananda, Paramahansa What bliss at the sight of Thy light! |
| Yun-k'an Tzu by willow's shade |
| Yun, Hsu An Exquisite Truth |
| Yun, Hsu Heart of the Buddha |
| Yun, Hsu Mirror Pond on Mount Taibo in Shanxi |
| Yun, Hsu Searching for the Dharma |
| Zohar (Leon, Moses de) Inside the hidden nexus (from Jacob's Journey) |
| Zohar (Leon, Moses de) The Gates (from Openings) |