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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
| 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 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 I believe in all that has never yet been spoken |
| Rosenstock, Gabriel faint sunlight |
| Rosenstock, Gabriel Fresh Paint / Péint Úr (from The Last Sasquatch) |
| 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 No end to the journey |
| 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 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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? |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
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Ivan
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