Aug 11 2009

robert herrick

a re-post while i’m enjoying the summer hols   Continue reading

Aug 5 2009

Thich Nhat Hahn

Drink Your Tea Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future; Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life. Being Peace If we are peaceful. If we are happy. We can smile and blossom Like [...]

Jul 27 2009

charles bukowski

splash the illusion is that you are simply reading this poem. the reality is that this is more than a poem. this is a beggar’s knife. this is a tulip. this is a soldier marching through Madrid. this is you on your death bed. this [...]

Jul 10 2009

Li Po

I love this poem, thanks to the gorgeous and thoughtful Ya Continue reading

Jul 9 2009

petals

The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. Ezra Pound

Jul 7 2009

kuan yun she

  Seventh Day Seventh Month   Tangle together like painted Clouds on a screen, then, Thighs enlaced, heads together On the pillow we sing softly To the full moon and watch time pass. The declining moon marks the hours. Suddenly we are seized by grief and fear. Three o’clock in the morning Has gone by but we cannot [...]

Jun 29 2009

buson

Plum-blossoms everywhere, I should go south, I should go north.   Buson (1716-1783)       Continue reading

Jun 25 2009

language

Language When a man is in love how can he use old words? Should a woman desiring her lover lie down with grammarians and linguists? I said nothing to the woman I loved but gathered love’s adjectives into a suitcase and fled from all languages. …Nizar Qabbani

May 27 2009

when i am an old woman

When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple with a red hat that doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves and satin slippers, and say we’ve no money for butter. I shall sit down on the pavement when I [...]

May 21 2009

look to this day

  Look to this day for it is life the very life of life. In its brief course lie all the realities and truths of existence the joy of growth the splendor of action the glory of power. For yesterday is but a memory And tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a [...]