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Poetry
Chaikhana
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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 [15] Sorrow looted this heart, |
| Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said [316] If you do not give up the crowds |
| Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said [36] Piousness and the path of love |
| Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said [38] A pious one with a hundred beads on your rosary, |
| Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said [43] Detached You are, even from your being, |
| Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said [65] Love came and emptied me of self, |
| Abulafia, Rabbi Abraham Circles 4 (from Life of the Future World) |
| Akha What could be the Other when First is naught? |
| Akhmatova, Anna A land not mine, still |
| al-Alawi, Ahmad Layla |
| Allama Prabhu Light |
| Allama Prabhu Looking for your light, |
| Ammons, A. R. Poetics |
| Ammons, A. R. Still |
| Arapaho (Anonymous) Arapaho Ghost Dance Songs |
| Attar, Farid ud-Din Invocation |
| 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, Sri 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 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 Year's end, |
| Battacharya, Mahendranath Screening its face amongst lotus stalks |
| Battacharya, Mahendranath Tell me, what are you doing now, Mind, |
| Bedil, Abdul-Qader Creation's Witness |
| Bedil, Abdul-Qader His Living Proof |
| Blake, William Awake! awake O sleeper of the land of shadows (from Jerusalem) |
| Blake, William The Divine Image |
| Bradstreet, Anne There is a path no vulture's eye hath seen, (from The Vanity of All Worldly Things) |
| Bulleh Shah Repeating the name of the Beloved |
| Cavafy, Constantine P. Ithaca |
| Chikako, Jusammi On this summer night |
| Chinmoy, Sri Flames |
| Civivakkiyar In bricks and in granite, |
| Civivakkiyar Silence, unmoved and rising, |
| Clare of Assisi Draw me after You! |
| Clare of Assisi What you hold, may you always hold. |
| Clare of Assisi When You have loved, You shall be chaste |
| Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Reason |
| cummings, e. e. i thank You God for most this amazing |
| Dasimayya, Devara Suppose you cut a tall bamboo |
| Dasimayya, Devara To the utterly at-one with Siva |
| Dasimayya, Devara What can I hurt now |
| Dasimayya, Devara Whatever It was |
| Dickinson, Emily [1544] Who has not found the Heaven--below-- |
| Dickinson, Emily [172] 'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! |
| Dickinson, Emily [322] There came a Day at Summerıs full, |
| Dickinson, Emily [324] Some keep the Sabbath going to the Church |
| Dickinson, Emily [388] Take Your Heaven further on -- |
| Dickinson, Emily [508] I'm ceded--I've stopped being Theirs-- |
| Dickinson, Emily [642] Me from Myself -- to banish -- |
| Dickinson, Emily [774] It is a lonesome Glee -- |
| Dogen Ching-ch'ing's raindrop sound |
| Dogen Impermanence |
| Dogen In the stream, |
| Dogen One of six verses on snow: |
| Dogen Wondrous nirvana-mind |
| Dogen Worship |
| Eldar Edda (Anonymous) Odin's Shaman Song (from Eldar Edda) |
| 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 |
| Francis of Assisi The Canticle of Brother Sun |
| Galib, Seyh Love is a lamp of God, I am its moth; |
| Gascoigne, Dame Catherine One thing alone I crave / Unum sit mihi totum |
| Ghalib, Mirza The drop dies in the river |
| Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Ha! A rush of bliss (from Faust) |
| Govindasvamin Holy sixth day |
| Granger, Ivan M. Adi Atman 4: stop pushing |
| Granger, Ivan M. Adi Atman 9: you you |
| Granger, Ivan M. City Fox |
| Granger, Ivan M. Drink Up! |
| Granger, Ivan M. Every Shaped Thing |
| Granger, Ivan M. Goodnight Moon |
| Granger, Ivan M. Lime |
| Granger, Ivan M. Medusa |
| Granger, Ivan M. Mountain Peaks |
| Granger, Ivan M. On the way |
| Granger, Ivan M. Parched |
| Granger, Ivan M. Prometheus |
| Granger, Ivan M. Rain Upcountry |
| Granger, Ivan M. Seeing |
| Granger, Ivan M. The Warbler Knows |
| Granger, Ivan M. The World's Cruel Kiss |
| Granger, Ivan M. When action becomes inaction |
| Granger, Ivan M. white world |
| Granum Sinapis (Anonymous) Granum Sinapis |
| Gyatso, Kelsang Little Tiger |
| Hadewijch All things |
| Hadewijch Love's constancy |
| Hadewijch The Queen of Sheba |
| Hafiz Cupbearer, it is morning, fill my cup with wine. |
| Hafiz If life remains, I shall go back to the tavern |
| 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 If They Only Knew |
| Hallaj Kill me, my faithful friends, |
| Hallaj You glide between the heart and its casing |
| Hallaj 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) [162] This rare and heavenly creature |
| Han-shan (Cold Mountain) [203] Above Cold Mountain the moon shines alone |
| Han-shan (Cold Mountain) [235] Here's a message for the faithful |
| Han-shan (Cold Mountain) [253] Children I implore you |
| Han-shan (Cold Mountain) [71] Someone lives in a mountain gorge |
| Hanh, Thich Nhat Interrelationship |
| 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 |
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M. Granger's original poetry, stories and commentaries are Copyright ©
2002 - 2008 by Ivan M. Granger.
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