Today I’d like to share a couple of poems which help condense important truths. I’ve been reading a lot of Mary Oliver lately, mainly because she’s new to me and has a precise way of highlighting Nature with a cosmic
Waterfalls as Metaphor for Oneness
And now for a completely different tradition of poetry and spirituality; a little haiku and Zen. When you get down to it though, the truths are the same. Different flavors of ice cream are still ice cream. I’ve featured the
Rumi, Poet of the Heart
As promised, more poetry. First some Rumi. It’s so very difficult to select which of his delicious verses to quote. As a true mystic, ecstatic verses poured out of him like a great, surging river. His work is prodigious, and
Poetry and Contemplation
There are only two previous posts here that are poetry, and its place in contemplative life, despite my good intentions to highlight spiritually significant verses. With this next one, I’m doing something about it. Ellen Bass’ poem spoke to me
Compressing time
Way back when, at the inception of this blog two years ago (light years in blog time!), there was the intention to include haiku and spiritually significant poetry. It didn’t quite pan out that way. There was one post sampling
Haiku
Dusk surrounds the canyon the wooden mallet’s clack signals zazen Haiku is a Japanese poetic form written with seventeen syllables. Zazen is sitting meditation. Mitsu Suzuki was married to Suzuki Roshi, wrote many haiku, taught Tea Ceremony, and was influential