Posts tagged "love"

Poems / May 26, 2025

A Cushion for Your Head

Just sit there right now
Don’t do a thing
Just rest.

For your separation from God,
From love,

Is the hardest work
In this
World.

Let me bring you trays of food
And something
That you like to
Drink.

You can use my soft words
As a cushion
For your
Head. —Hafiz

Links / May 18, 2025

Link

“A child who has been properly nurtured and is securely attached would never sit in the lap of a complete stranger … She was so desperate for love, for attention, that she would have gone home with anyone, no question.”

Bible / April 30, 2025

Inspiriting

In the world ye shall have tribulation:
but be of good cheer;
I have overcome the world.

—John 16:33

Haiku / April 9, 2025

new spring
Yatarô dies, priest Issa
is born

—Issa

Poems / March 30, 2025

Bonfire at Midnight

A shout comes out of my room

where I’ve been cooped up.

After all my lust and dead living

I can still live with you.

You want me to.

You fix and bring me food.

You forget the way I’ve been.

The ocean moves and surges in the heat

of the middle of the day,

in the heat of this thought I’m having.

Why aren’t all human resistances

burning up with this thought?

It is a drum and arms waving.

It is a bonfire at midnight on the top edge of a hill,

this meeting again with you.

—Rumi