Articles tagged ‘Saturday poems’.
by Abu-Said Abil-Kheir English version by Vraje Abramian Original Language Persian/Farsi Nothing but burning sobs and tears tonight. No way out and no...
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“What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster, what chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy. Judge of all things, imbecile worm of...
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by Kabir English version by Linda Hess and Shukdeo Singh Original Language Hindi I’ve burned my own house down, the torch is in my hand. Now I&...
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by Hadewijch All things are too small to hold me, I am so vast In the Infinite I reach for the Uncreated I have touched it, it undoes me wider than w...
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By Anne Bradstreet Original Language English There is a path no vulture’s eye hath seen, Where lion fierce, nor lion’s whelps have been, W...
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by Symeon the New Theologian English version by Ivan M. Granger The fire rises in me, and lights up my heart. Like the sun! Like the golden disk! Open...
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by Fukuda Chiyo-ni English version by Patricia Donegan & Yoshie Ishibashi Original Language Japanese a dandelion now and then interrupting the but...
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by Kuan Han-Ch’ing English version by Jerome P. Seaton Original Language Chinese go where my mind will sit when my heart’s still drink whe...
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Lakota, anonymous Oh, Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the wind, whose breath gives life to all the world. Hear me; I need your strength and wisdom...
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Grandfather, Look at our brokenness. We know that in all creation Only the human family Has strayed from the Sacred Way. We know that we are the ones ...
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by Ravidas You are me, and I am You – what is the difference between us? We are like gold and the bracelet, or water and the waves. If I did not...
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by Symeon the New Theologian English version by Ivan M Granger Original Language Greek The fire rises in me, and lights up my heart. Like the sun! Lik...
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by Mirabai English version by Robert Bly Something has reached out and taken in the beams of my eyes. There is a longing, it is for his body, for ever...
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by Thich Nhat Hanh You are me, and I am you. Isn’t it obvious that we “inter-are”? You cultivate the flower in yourself, so that I w...
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by Yuan Mei English version by J. P. Seaton Original Language Chinese To learn to be without desire you must desire that. Better to do as you please: ...
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by Jakushitsu English version by Arthur Braverman Original Language Japanese Rock slab seat legs folded sitting alone Not loathing noise not savoring ...
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by (Ikkyu Sojun) English version by Stephen Berg Original Language Japanese only one koan matters you...
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by Jakushitsu English version by Arthur Braverman Original Language Japanese To the branch’s edge and the leaf’s under surface be most att...
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by Zeynep Hatun English version by Murat Yagan Original Language Turkish I am a fountain, You are my water. I flow from You to You. I am an eye, You a...
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by Baba Sheikh Farid English version by Nirmal Dass Original Language Punjabi Do not speak a hurtful word, for in everyone lives the true Lord. Do not...
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by James Broughton Quit your addiction to sneer and complaint Try a little flaunt Call for comrades who bolster your vim and offer you risk Corral the...
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by Ikkyu (Ikkyu Sojun) English version by Stephen Berg Original Language Japanese sick of it whatever it’s called sick of the names I dedicate e...
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By Lucinda Marshall Another senseless mass shooting, Scores dead, mostly children. Shot by a young man, It is almost always young men who do...
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by Ryuzan English version by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto Original Language Japanese Clear in the blue, the moon! Icy water to the horizon, Defini...
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By Dom Mercuri You don’t think this is a robbery? this is a gun boom and gloom pressure building the never ending crisis has gotten worse it’s a g...
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by Shih Shu English version by James H. Sanford Original Language Chinese against the gently flowing spring morning the arrogant rattle of a passing c...
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By Dom Mercuri All the local incentives for another shot at glory. All the local knowledge leaves top citizen forlorn in paddock of shattered dreams...
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By Dom Mercuri Mate, this is the last thing you need when you’re down on your knees. It’s quite a dance this fox rot boxed in box step this hand m...
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by Chiao Jan English version by J. P. Seaton Original Language Chinese If you want to be a mountain dweller… no need to trek to India to find a ...
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By Roberto Fernández Retamar, translated by Andrew McKenna I lived where I wanted I married who I wanted I have the descendants I wanted to have I di...
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By Ernesto Cardenal Translated by Andrew McKenna Claudia, be careful when you’re with me because the lightest gesture, any word, a sigh Cla...
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by Kobayashi Issa English version by David G. Lanoue Original Language Japanese swatting a fly looking at a mountain...
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By Emmi Scherlies* The fire-tool feels cold in my warm hand. The brass is tarnished from time, And the end is charred. Embossed into the handle is a c...
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By Clare of Assisi English version by Regis J. Armstrong, OFM CAP & Ignatius C. Brady, OFM Original Language Italian When You have loved, You shal...
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Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (April 28, 1953 – July 15, 2003) was a Chilean novelist and poet. In 1999 he won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel Lo...
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