Poems for These Times: 5
Jane Hirshfield | The Weighing
“The heart’s reasons
seen clearly,
even the hardest will carry
its whip-marks and sadness…
Dom Sylvester Houédard: tantric poetries
Charles Verey | A review of an exhibition of work done in the 1960s and 70s by the remarkable monk/poet, whose lifework was to develop a universal form of spirituality.
Poems for These Times: 4
D. H. Lawrence | Trust
“Oh we’ve got to trust
one another again
in some essentials…”
Poems for These Times: 3
Czesław Miłosz | Before Majesty
“It is bitter to praise God in misfortune…”
Poems for These Times: 2
Lao Tzu | Tao Te Ching, Chapter Forty-seven
“Without going outside, you may know the whole world…”
Poems for These Times: 1
Lynn Ungar | Pandemic
“What if you thought of it
as the Jews consider the Sabbath—
the most sacred of times? […]”