Heart warming poems

Heart warming poems

A variety of poems with a spiritual 'flavour'...

A variety of poems with a spiritual 'flavour'...

Age of the Light Warriors

Submitted by Chris Bourne on 8 June, 2011 - 10:33
    On the surface of our world right now
    There is war, violence, and craziness
    And things may seem dark...

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The Call - Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Submitted by Chris Bourne on 4 May, 2011 - 06:24
    "I have heard it all my life,
    A voice calling a name I recognized as my own...

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Sweet confinement of aloneness

Submitted by Chris Bourne on 21 April, 2010 - 00:22
    "When your eyes are tired
    the world is tired also.
    When your vision has gone...

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A Golden Compass - Hafiz

Submitted by Trinity Bourne on 25 June, 2009 - 08:43

    Forget every idea of right and wrong
    Any classroom ever taught you
    Because an empty heart, a tormented mind,
    Unkindness, jealousy and fear
    Are always the testimony.
    You have been completely fooled!...

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The Journey - Mary Oliver

Submitted by Trinity Bourne on 9 May, 2009 - 20:11
    One day you finally knew
    what you had to do, and began,
    though the voices around you
    kept shouting
    their bad advice
    though the whole house
    began to tremble...

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Between two waves of the sea - T.S.Eliot

Submitted by Trinity Bourne on 7 May, 2009 - 19:19

    We shall not cease from exploration
    And the end of all our exploring
    Will be to arrive where we started
    And know the place for the first time...

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Light will some day split you open - Hafiz

Submitted by Trinity Bourne on 21 April, 2009 - 12:36

    Light will someday split you open
    Even if your life is now a cage,
    For a divine seed, the crown of destiny,
    Is hidden and sown on an ancient, fertile plain
    You hold the title to...

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Letting go

Submitted by Trinity Bourne on 20 January, 2009 - 14:08

    To let go doesn't mean to stop caring;
    It means I can't do it for someone else.
    To let go is not to cut myself off...
    It's the realization that I can't control another...

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The Grail - St Teresa of Avila

Submitted by Trinity Bourne on 20 January, 2009 - 14:04
    They are like shy, young school kids -
    time and space
    before the woman and the man who are
    intimate with God.
    The realised soul can play with this universe
    the way a child can a ball...

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In two worlds

Submitted by Chris Bourne on 15 December, 2008 - 12:18
    "A man and a woman sit near each other,
    and they do not long at this moment to be older, or younger,
    nor born in any other nation, or time, or place...

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