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Sometimes we curse the restlessness of mind;forgetting it's God's gift, this restlessness:for this will never cease until it findthat which it seeks:..

Sit with it like a nurseat the hour of duskevery few minutesglancing overand seeing its petalsclosing, slowlyslowly,vegetable muscleswe have no..

The book said:I serve you. Andas you take from me, Igive myself to you; evenbefore you beginto read me.I note how gentlyyou pick me up fromwhere you..

The authority on poetry pauses;the world holds its breath. This head – greybeard,skinhead – forehead already linedwith self-imposed responsibility..

I'm still waiting for an answer:does that spider on the hedgejust do what spiders do;or does (he, she, it) think?Is it just a robot, programmedby a..

It's the day that everybody in the world remembersbecause they can 't forget it:The eighth day of the week;the thirty-second day of the month;the..

As children, lost in worlds grown-ups forget,pass by some anniversary day unmarked,then, gently minded, run in childish shameinto the garden, there..

I was looking at this guy in the streetwishing I could walk with his swaggeras if he owned the streetwhen he caught me looking -'you got a problem?..

The Hebrew languagehas such sacred powerthat you shouldn't sing itin the bath or shower.This compassionate concession:you're still allowed to humany..

When did you cease to love, then hate, yourself?What terrible event? How long ago?What slight misunderstanding, view of self,that led to fading love..

Picassodefined his art as'une somme des destructions' -'a sum of destructions' -a fair definition, too, ofthe art of war

We are like salmon, swimming back upstream:leaping against waterfalls that thwart,cut and bruised; but strong; our only dreamreturn to source; no..

It’s May and it’s rainingand I’m standing at the front dooras if I were the first rain itselfon Eden, blessing and blessedbefore there could beany..

I forgot to lookwhere the sidewalk endsso now I'mone inch talland spread all over the roadI should've takenthe road not taken

It must be fun - or so I'd like to think -doing a 'people' job,if that's what you really like to do;like being a born bright barman in a not-too-busy..

O God - or may I call you Lord? –I remember when I was a child,You were my best friend, one who knew mebetter than I knew myself;and so I talked to..

Early on a fine morning in June,everything so still, the airas if air had just been invented,carrying scents, andtaste, and touch, and sparkling..

How long?how long before the measuresput in place by the state'for our protection'become the apparatusof a repressive andtotalitarian state?'Oh it..

'Since your breakdown, Michael,you've changed out of all recognition...'Was I supposed to feel flattered,since this was evidently meant as a..

One in three of us, the stats say, lives alone. Sad;but fine if you prefer it that way.It's late at night. You're alone. The PC off at last. The TV..

it's just an age thing - should you be concerned?I'll spell it out; it may just clear my mind:that, in impatient youth, ambition burnedto have the..

It takes all sorts to make a world, they say(how do 'they' know anyway?) :but it certainly looks like that here this sunny day:some just want to be..

In but a few years' timewhen every poet and their critichas the internet on their videophonewe can relieve ourselvesof our mutual antipathyas..

How fresh the air is today.A poet has walked this way,as silently alive as the breezeplaying with the almond blossom.

As your beloved, faithful dogreturns to his dear master's hearthafter burying deep some promising fine boneas hostage to the future,and with the..