Dante Alighieri Know’st thou not at the fall of the leaf How the heart feels a languid grief Laid on it for a covering, And how sleep seems a goodly thing In Autumn at the fall of the leaf?[...]
Archive for the ‘Lead Poems’ Category
April 1st, 2011 - 12:00 am § in Lead Poems
For Freedom
John O’Donohue As a bird soars high In the free holding of the wind, Clear of the certainty of ground, Opening the imagination of wings[...]
April 1st, 2011 - 12:00 am § in Lead Poems
I Came
From the un-manifest I came, And pitched my tent, in the Forest of Material existence. I passed through mineral and vegetable kingdoms, Then my mental equipment carried me into the animal kingdom; Having reached there I crossed beyond it; Then in the crystal clear shell of human heart I nursed the d[...]
March 1st, 2011 - 12:01 am § in Lead Poems
A New World
Hafiz Let’s offer flowers, pour a cup of libation, split open the skies and start anew on creation. If the forces of grief invade our lovers’ veins, cupbearer and I will wash away this temptation.[...]
March 1st, 2011 - 12:01 am § in Lead Poems
Song of a Man Who Has Come Through
D. H. Lawrence Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time. If only I let it bear me, carry me, if only it carry me! If only I am sensitive, subtle, oh, delicate, a winged gift![...]
January 3rd, 2011 - 8:46 pm § in Lead Poems
Winter-Time
Robert Louis Stevenson Late lies the wintry sun a-bed, A frosty, fiery sleepy-head; Blinks but an hour or two; and then, A blood-red orange, sets again.[...]
December 1st, 2010 - 12:01 am § in Lead Poems
The Apology
Ralph Waldo Emerson Think me not unkind and rude, That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men.[...]
December 1st, 2010 - 12:01 am § in Lead Poems
Whoever Brought Me Here
Rumi All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there. This drunkenness began in some other tavern. When I [...][...]
November 1st, 2010 - 12:01 am § in Lead Poems
They Eat Out
Margaret Atwood In restaurants we argue over which of us will pay for your funeral though the real question is whether or not I will make you immortal.[...]
November 1st, 2010 - 12:01 am § in Lead Poems
Let Me be Mad
Rumi O incomparable Giver of life, cut reason loose at last! Let it wander grey-eyed from vanity to vanity. Shatter open my skull, pour in it the wine of madness! Let me be mad, as You; mad with You, with us. Beyond the sanity of fools is a burning desert Where Your sun is whirling [...][...]