“Wait” by Galway Kinnell
Wait Wait, for now. Distrust everything if you have to. But trust the hours. Haven’t they carried you everywhere, up to now? Personal events will…
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7 Dog Poems by Mary Oliver
Do poems about dogs qualify as mystical poetry? Mary Oliver’s certainly do. My definition of mystical poetry is any poem “that describes or evokes an…
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“Dark Night of the Soul” by St. John of the Cross
“Dark Night of the Soul” – Translation by Mirabai Starr On a dark night, Inflamed by love-longing– O exquisite risk!– Undetected I slipped away. My…
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“O Noble Love,” by Hadewijch of Antwerp
O noble Love, do in me Your holy will in all things My life and death belong to you. May you make of me One…
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“One Day In Your Wineshop” by Rumi
One day in your wineshop, I drank a little wine, And threw off this robe of my body, And knew, drunk on you, the world…
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“Self Compassion” by James Crews
My friend and I snickered the first time we heard the meditation teacher, a grown man, call himself honey, with a hand placed over his heart…
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Kahlil Gibran on Pain
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding” And a woman spoke, saying, Tell us of Pain. And he said: Your…
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“Trees” by Joyce Kilmer
Trees I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth’s sweet…
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“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ…” by Omar Khayyam
The Moving Finger Writes 51The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel…
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“Self Pity” by D. H. Lawrence
Self Pity I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt…
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