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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
| Mirabai I am true to my Lord |
| Mirabai No one knows my invisible life |
| Mirabai O I saw witchcraft tonight |
| Mirabai The Heat of Midnight Tears |
| Misri, Niyazi Now No Trace Remains |
| 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, |
| Nanak, Guru Ek Omkar |
| Nasimi, Imadeddin Both worlds within my compass come, but this world cannot compass me |
| Nawaz, Gharib The Second Jesus |
| Nematollah Vali, Shah I beheld my essence |
| Neruda, Pablo Poetry |
| Niffari (an-Niffari, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan) Stand at the throne (from The Standing Of the Presence Chamber and the Letter) |
| Nirmala why fear this moment |
| Novalis Uplifted is the stone |
| O'Donohue, John Beannacht / Blessing |
| O'Donohue, John In Praise of the Earth |
| Ojibway (Anonymous) Sometimes |
| Oliver, Colin Here I see no-one |
| Oliver, Mary In Blackwater Woods |
| Oliver, Mary The Lark |
| Oliver, Mary The Ponds |
| Oliver, Mary Wild Geese |
| 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 The Cold Clear Spring at Nanyang |
| Po, Li Yellow Crane Terrace |
| 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 |
| Rabia (Al-'Adawiyya, Rabi'a) I have two ways of loving You: |
| Rabia (Al-'Adawiyya, Rabi'a) My joy |
| Rabia (Al-'Adawiyya, Rabi'a) O God, Another Night is passing away |
| Rabia (Al-'Adawiyya, Rabi'a) 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) Meditate on Kali! Why be anxious? |
| 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? |
| Reninger, Elizabeth True Love |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria We are the driving ones |
| Rosenstock, Gabriel faint sunlight |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin [1127] I drink streamwater and the air |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin [1146] Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull |
| 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 Love is Here |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin No end to the journey |
| 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 grapes of my body can only become wine |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin The minute I heard my first love story |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Whoever finds love |
| Ryokan First days of spring -- the sky |
| Ryokan The thief left it behind: |
| Ryokan The winds have died, but flowers go on falling; |
| Ryokan This world |
| Ryokan You stop to point at the moon in the sky |
| Ryuzan Clear in the blue, the moon! |
| Saadi If one His praise of me would learn |
| Sanai, Hakim Mystic Chat |
| Sanai, Hakim No tongue can tell Your secret |
| Sanai, Hakim Streaming |
| Sanai, Hakim The Good Darkness |
| Sanai, Hakim There is no place for place! |
| Sarmad Every man who is aware of his secret |
| Sarmad He dwells not only in temples and mosques |
| 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 |
| Shih-te (Pickup) [2] Doesn't anyone see |
| Shih-te (Pickup) [4] Behold the glow of the moon |
| Shikibu, Izumi Watching the moon |
| Silesius, Angelus Eternity is time |
| Silesius, Angelus God, whose love and joy |
| Silesius, Angelus In Spirit senses are |
| Sinan, Ummi The Rose |
| Singh, Darshan How did I ever think silence the language of love? |
| Snyder, Gary At Tower Peak |
| Snyder, Gary Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout |
| Snyder, Gary No Matter, Never Mind |
| Solovyov, Vladimir All in azure today |
| Soseki, Muso Clear Valley |
| Soseki, Natsume The lamp once out |
| Soseki, Natsume Watch birth and death: |
| 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 What is this awesome mystery |
| 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 (81) On many an idle day have I grieved over lost time (from Gitanjali) |
| Tagore, Rabindranath I touch God in my song |
| Taliesin A Poem for the Wind |
| Teresa of Avila In the Hands of God |
| Teresa of Avila You are Christ's Hands |
| Traherne, Thomas Love |
| 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 |
| Tulsidas Sound Celestial |
| Vaughan, Henry The Morning Watch |
| Vaughan, Henry The Night |
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Ivan
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2002 - 2009 by Ivan M. Granger.
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