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My smiling mind winksat my heart,reading the first line of your haiku

I was born poor uneducated trailer trash;worked myself up by my own efforts;now I'm rich; but still inside, feel poor...so last week, I celebrated..

Such a fine morning sight –all the species, not lining upfor extinction as they later werebut this time for preservation – a long linepatiently..

The brain and spinal cordcontain a hundred billion neuron cellsbacked up by many more glial cells..each neuron surrounded by its dendronslike a..

Yesterday, I heard someone else dare to say your name...but give you now with love, the heart that heard it.Does God love every name so much?

When the poem has at lastbeen brought to birth,I rest, or stand, as both proud parents do,blessed by the loving bed;but I love too, the memoryof what..

Rumi, Haziz and Kabirpaused from drinking wine togetherand saying how lucky they wereto meet each other at lastand said to me in a dream,‘Those..

It’s a snapshot, exceptbefore the age of the camerayet more of a decisive momentthan any posed painting;as any photographer,lighting director, would..

Come to me as nameless, Lord –and I to Thee!come to me – I care not – asthe Brahman, Krishna, Buddha,Adonai, Christ, Mohammed, Reason –clothed..

Between the high grey residential blockand the busy, noisy Japanese streetthere’s a small park: three tall treesin a broad bed of grey slate..

A heresome, theresome, gipsy mind;a to-ward, froward heart;her limbs thrown wild to air and wind,she sings her skyclad art.

How wisethe cherry treesto ignore the cameras!

Three thousand haikai!Teishitsu's second thoughtsleft only thirty..

He was full of questions.For others, he provided answersthat stunned their knowledge and their world;for him, his answers were but springboardsfor..

This fine morning - sun through swaying palm trees,the lap of waves heard distantly,sunlight glinting on their sparkling lap-tops..in cool rooms..

many wayson Sattwadaysin which to praisee.g. a rose –in careful prose;awe for betteror full worsein poetry, unjustin verse..be it evenheartfelt..

They walk down the passage,enter the room,as if called to some formal gatheringof honour to be bestowed;humility and dignity togethermake them..

To praise the ‘generosity of soul’in someone other – and that, to their face –must be, to know that quality oneself;and more, to be familiar in its..

All day from dawn to dusk, the drizzling rain;everything today is painted grey;and as for me - I shut my heart, alas;and took that paint and washed..

Not a true poem, to former minds;but a poem that remembers truth;not a good poem, to former minds;but a poem that remembers goodness;not a beautiful..

The ancient sage, beset with too many thoughtsfor one human lifetime,chooses carefully the place to sitbeside the lake,under the even more ancient..

The year is 1607; the place, the lodgingsof the Jesuit College Royal Henri-le-Grandat La Fleche; it’s evening;around a flickering candlethree boys of..

Their wives were not too keen about it all:beyond the call of duty, so it seemed;for if they read the heavens’ portents so well,what need of proof;..

When the gods allota time, a place, to those so mortalmortals whom they love to test,is it a greater gift they give to poets,to live in a land of..

‘About the Self, dear seeker,nothing can be said..’say the bright-eyed sages witha chuckle and a wink;a chuckle and a wink..granting, later, that if..