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Dreams By Sara Teasdale
Dreams By Sara Teasdale I gave my life to another lover, I gave my love, and all, and all– But over a dream the past will hover, Out of a dream the past will call. I tear myself from sleep with a shiver But on my breast a kiss is hot, And by my bed […]
Contro
And out again I curve and flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever. Alfred Lord Tennyson Chances are you might have read that out aloud. Give it another try. This time read it to yourself, in your head. But whose voice is […]
Apolitical Intellectuals- Otto Rene Castillo
————————— One day the apolitical intellectuals of my country will be interrogated by the simplest of our people. They will be asked what they did when their nation died out slowly, like a sweet fire small and alone. No one will ask them about their dress, their long siestas after lunch, no one will want […]
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand Whoever you are holding me now in hand, Without one thing all will be useless, I give you fair warning before you attempt me further, I am not what you supposed, but far different. Who is he that would become my follower? Who would sign himself a […]
The type of lover I need – Rupi Kaur
I need someone who understands struggle as well as I do. someone willing to hold my feet in their lap on days it is too difficult to stand. the type of person who gives exactly what I need before I even know I need it. the type of lover who hears me even when I […]
Why Cling?
Why cling to one life till it is soiled and ragged? The sun dies and dies squandering a hundred lived every instant God has decreed life for you and He will give another and another and another Source: (translated by Daniel Liebert) Mathnawi V. 411-414 (translated by Kabir Helminski) The Rumi Collection, Edited by […]
The Ship Sunk In Love
Should Love’s heart rejoice unless I burn? For my heart is Love’s dwelling. If You will burn Your house, burn it, Love! Who will say, ‘It’s not allowed’? Burn this house thoroughly! The lover’s house improves with fire. From now on I will make burning my aim, From now on I will make burning my […]
The Kindness of a Stranger
A woman found out that she has lupus after collapsing on the ground and going into a coma for a few days. She was put into a local hospital and treated for a week. During her hospitalization, her costs went over $5,000 and would end up totaling over $43,000 in all. Due to other circumstances, […]
Change by Paulo Coelho
Those who think that the mountains don’t change are wrong: they were born out of earthquakes, are eroded by wind and rain, and each day they are slightly different, even though we do not notice that change. The mountains change and are pleased: ‘It’s good not to be the same all the time,’ they say […]
A Hymn to the (Jail) Super* by Kazi Nazrul Islam
(Original: Super (jeler) Bondona) Translation: Sajed Kamal ========================= In your jail you care for us to the hilt, blessed you are, blessed you are! This song of mine is in your honor, blessed you are, blessed you are!! You have stationed guards at our doors, in the dark rooms, chained us with such affection as […]
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I’ll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? […]
A Moments Indulgence By Rabindranath Tagore
I ask for a moment’s indulgence to sit by thy side. The works that I have in hand I will finish afterwards. Away from the sight of thy face my heart knows no rest nor respite, and my work becomes an endless toil in a shoreless sea of toil. Today the summer has come at […]
A Dream Within a Dream By Edgar Allen Poe
Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? […]
A Poison Tree – Poem by William Blake
I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both […]
Kahlil Gibran on Love
When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste […]
Paulo Coelho explains the concept of the Universe conspiring…
There is sometimes a bit of confusion in regards to a passage of my book The Alchemist: “And when you really want something, the world conspires to make a dream come true”. Mind you, some people sometimes want things that in the end won’t truly help them. The Universe is merely an echo of our […]
If you want what visible reality
From Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks If you want what visible reality can give, you’re an employee. If you want the unseen world, you’re not living your truth. Both wishes are foolish, but you’ll be forgiven for forgetting that what you really want is love’s confusing joy. Presented by: Let Us Write
If I Were King, By Alan Alexander Milne
I often wish I were a King, And then I could do anything. If only I were King of Spain, I’d take my hat off in the rain. If only I were King of France, I wouldn’t brush my hair for aunts. I think, if I were King of Greece, I’d push things off the mantelpiece. […]
From Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn’t make any sense. Presented by: Let Us Write
Act of love By Paulo Coelho
Rabbi Iaakov’s wife was always looking for an excuse to argue with her husband. Iaakov never answered her provocations. Until one night, during a dinner with some friends, when the rabbi had a ferocious argument with his wife, to the surprise of all at table. “What happened?” they asked. “Why did you break your habit […]