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Commentary on the 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 Sorrow looted this heart |
| 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) 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. 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 Nightingale |
| 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 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 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 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 |
| 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 Wondrous nirvana-mind |
| 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 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 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 Good and Evil |
| Gibran, Kahlil Reason and Passion |
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Ivan
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