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

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

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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The Bridge to Heaven...

Submitted by Chris Bourne on 30 August, 2008 - 05:54
    "One might believe the bridge to heaven is grand,
    with a marble arch laden with the finest blossom
    and a choir of angels to rejoice in our blessed coming home.
    Upon my birth there were no angels, blossoms, nor marble arch...

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Now is the time to know - Hafiz

Submitted by Trinity Bourne on 11 March, 2008 - 00:09

    Now is the time to know
    That all that you do is sacred.

    Now, why not consider
    A lasting truce with yourself and God...

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If - Rudyard Kipling

Submitted by Trinity Bourne on 10 March, 2008 - 23:49

    If you can keep your head when all about you
    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
    If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
    But make allowance for their doubting too...

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