POEMS BY FORREST RIVERS: Mysterious Tao, Earth Dance, An Ode to One and more
Mysterious TAO Everything in nature is fleeting Leaves turn colour and fall awayTrees grow old and some decayCaterpillars undergo a glorious metamorphosisIn...
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POEMS BY JOHN GREY: In Need of Flow, The Edge of Extinction and more
In Need of Flow I stroll home along the banks of the white river,my hair set afire by sunset.My mind is shared with the stream,its swift current, the bankin...
SOOTHE THE SOUL: 3 poems about love by Matt Buonocore
Locked in Thought My Dear,All I want is your happiness,I want to see you smile.I’ve watched for years behind these bars,and I’ve waited patiently for you. Y...
THE ADVENTURES OF SAINT ISSA IN THE FAR EAST: A tale of three incarnations
One morning, Saint Issa, a 13-year-old Jewish mystic boy, made the fateful decision to leave home and set off by foot along the ancient silk trade route to Ind...
POEMS BY REBECCA SHEA: Planted, The Purple Room
I filled my watering can with holy waterAnd used it to water my lawnSo the grass would finally be greenerOn the side that I was onI got a priest to bless the s...
POEMS BY GEORGE PAYNE: Where the Gods Dwell, I Need my Used Bookstore and more
Where Deer Sleep My three-year-old sonasked me where deer sleep.So I took him there. Steppinginto a space that is not meantfor fathers and sons, we founda r...
THE POWER OF THE MANTRA: A monk chooses spiritual power over temptation
For 13 years, a great monk prayed, meditated and fasted in the mountains in order to see more clearly into the nature of things. One morning, this wise man dec...
POEMS BY REBECCA SHEA: All the Places I Haven’t Found God, But My Flowers Did Not Grow
All the Places I Haven't Found God A lady at AA says she found God under a bridge Just below the freeway. I wait for hours, but He never comes. I met a c...
POEMS BY MATT BUONOCORE: Love Transfusion, One in Love, Swallowed in Surrender
Love Tranfusion Sometimes I live in the grey,unable to decide if everything’s alright.My mind knows what the past looks like,I can’t look back, I know insid...