we have watched again our own guilt disguised stalking the sullen wind carrying our own words the crows in the worn sky wait remembering too late the reasons for our being among them –Lance Henson (Voices of the Rainbow: Contemporary Poetry by Native Americans edited by Kenneth Rosen, p.58) Becoming a Hawk Lance […]
Drinking Gold
Hummingbird hummingbird magenta-green and white carrier of light and wind from the south you came singing a high shrill whistle weighted with rain everywhere you flew the grasses bowed in prayer and a greenness came to the land as your song was heard your wings rushed the clouds to bring sweet wet seed from the […]
Heart-Light Shining
This mist, this cloud, this darkness into which we go, transcending knowledge, is the path below which your face cannot be found except veiled; but it is that very darkness which reveals your face is there, beyond all veils. –Nicolas of Cusa (Christian Mystics: 365 Readings and Meditations by Matthew Fox, p.151) Nicolas of Cusa […]
As the Holy Flows Free
When the Holy Thaws And god is always there, if you feel wounded. He kneels over this earth like a divine medic, and His love thaws the holy in us –St. Teresa of Avila (Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West translated by Daniel Ladinsky, p. 291) These are […]