This ode to the Bodhisattva of Compassion casts her as a person in the world, who could be one or many.
Category: Poetry
Naomi Shihab Nye – The Art of Disappearing
A tribute to the serene wisdom of choosing when to step into the light and when to fade into the shadows.
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Pat Schneider – The Patience of Ordinary Things
If ever there was an antidote to the idea of a hostile world against which we are perpetually opposed, it's this poem.
Denise Levertov – The Secret
The unintentional authoring of a line that reveals something profound to a reader, remains a mystery to the author herself.
Linda Pastan – Why Are Your Poems So Dark?
Linda Pastan's poem is an ode to the power of the ubiquitous and necessary darkness, and sadness, in our lives.
Archibald Macleish – Ars Poetica
A reflection on the silence, stillness and powerful presence of poetry by one of the 21st century's leading modernist poets.
Danielle Pieratti – Rubric for Burying a Hen
Danielle Pieratti's 'Rubric for Burying a Hen' is a heartbreaking account of what it is to fail to sustain someone or something in our care.
Jane Hirshfield – For What Binds Us
What it is that brings us together, binds our relationships and heals our wounds, even beyond the limits of our own agency?
Ziyong Chengru – Ten Verses
Chinese Nun Ziyong Chengru on the pain of parting and how to draw solace from the cyclical nature of time and landscape.