Let lovers go fresh and sweet to be undone And the heaviest nuns walk in a pure floating Of dark habits, keeping their difficult balance.
Category: Poetry Shares
The Peace of Wild things by Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least soundin fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,I go and lie down where the wood drakerests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.I come into the peace of wild thingswho do … Continue reading The Peace of Wild things by Wendell Berry
The Path To You by maria walton
This Path led me to you, and now you show me the Way onward along the Path that always seems to lead right back to you
Traveler, There is No Path
Traveler, There Is No Pathby Antonio Machado Everything passes on and everything remains, But our lot is to pass on,To go on making paths,Paths across the sea.I never sought glory,Nor to leave my songIn the memory of man;I love those subtle worlds,Weightless and graceful, As bubbles of soap.I like to watch as they paint themselvesIn … Continue reading Traveler, There is No Path
The Bardo of the Heart by maria walton
(The Cocoon) In the still light summer wanes, sounds have grown softer blowing by on cooler breezes that seem to have spent more time lost at sea than their predecessors— blowing in saltier and announcing the beginning of the closing acts— the denoument of the high season. Ripe blackberries are falling off the vines under … Continue reading The Bardo of the Heart by maria walton
An Awakening Poem by maria walton
Homecoming Here, in the hall of the eternal present all things are available to be known— All of existence is here in the fountain of emerging moments for the apprehension of all who see the turning of the wheel and understand its emptiness As I watch the crow I realize— We are all here together … Continue reading An Awakening Poem by maria walton
Kindness
Before you know what kindness really isyou must lose things,feel the future dissolve in a momentlike salt in a weakened broth.What you held in your hand,what you counted and carefully saved,all this must go so you knowhow desolate the landscape can bebetween the regions of kindness.How you ride and ridethinking the bus will never stop,the … Continue reading Kindness
The Unnamed Shape of love by maria walton
The Unnamed Shape of Love To place a name on This would be like yoking the divine, lashing spirit to a wooden post, or veiling the luminous beauty of a pure and open heart— Let us let it be the mystery, as we are one in the same, mirrored particles floating through space, immeasurable in … Continue reading The Unnamed Shape of love by maria walton
L’Amuse Bouche (In the Sugarbush – A Prologue) by maria waltOn
L’Amuse Bouche (In the Sugarbush: A Prologue) The fruits borne of the tree of analysis are flavorless, but valuable— and sometimes beautiful, like Renoir’s “Basket of Fruit”. But it is within the womb of synthesis that luscious beauty is born— As the heart softly dawns on the horizon of experience and sees itself anew in … Continue reading L’Amuse Bouche (In the Sugarbush – A Prologue) by maria waltOn
E.E. Cummings Gets Down with Impermanence
2. for him alone life’s worse than worst is better than a mere world’s best whose any twilight is his last and every sunrise is his first