Pray For Peace
Pray for Peace by Ellen Bass from the book The Human Line ( Copper Canyon press , 2007) Pray to whomever you kneel down to: Jesus nailed to his wooden or plastic cross, his suffering... More »
Pray for Peace by Ellen Bass from the book The Human Line ( Copper Canyon press , 2007) Pray to whomever you kneel down to: Jesus nailed to his wooden or plastic cross, his suffering... More »
I am working on a blog post processing emotions that are arising about love and relationship. Serendipitously I was led to this lovely poem. I think it's time to buy a book of Whyte's poetry.... More »
You darkness from which I come, I love you more than all the fires that fence out the world, for the fire makes a circle for everyone so that no one sees you anymore. But... More »
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE: "If you place a fern under a stone, the next day it will be nearly invisible as if the stone has swallowed it. If you tuck the name of a loved on... More »
Oh, lordy, did this little poem I found on a favorite blog touch me deep, deep, deep just now... * Don't Surrender Your loneliness so quickly. Let it cut more Deep. Let it ferment and... More »
What can they do to you? Whatever they want. They can set you up, they can bust you, they can break your fingers, they can burn your brain with electricity, blur you with drugs till... More »
We have come to be danced Not the pretty dance Not the pretty pretty, pick me, pick me dance But the claw our way back into the belly Of the sacred, sensual animal dance The... More »
INDIVIDUATION by Avah Pevlor Johnson If I must be wrung through the paradox, broken into wholeness, wring me around the moon; pelt me with particles from the dark side. Fling me into space; hide me... More »
I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less... More »
Logos Why wonder about the loaves and the fishes? If you say the right words, the wine expands. If you say them with love and the felt ferocity of that love and the felt necessity... More »