Artist Amanda Sage It appears that it was all a misunderstanding. What was only a trial run was taken seriously. The rivers will return to their beginnings. The wind will cease in its turning about. Trees instead of budding will tend to their roots. Old men will chase a ball, a glance in the mirror— [...]
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Suzanne
Posted in Music, Poetry, tagged Judy Collins, Leonard Cohen, Poems, Youtube on December 2, 2011 | 15 Comments »
I posted the lyrics to Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” a few weeks ago. Fran, one of my blog readers, reminded me of another one of his songs, “Suzanne”. Lyrics below and a youtube video from 1976 with both Leonard Cohen and Judy collins singing it. Judy Collins was my introduction to Leonard Cohen. Her earlier recordings [...]
Buttery Lips
Posted in elizabeth adams, Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged Inspire, Poems on November 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I want simply to get inside the words within the words the saint’s velvet garbs say nothing of the saints themselves speak to me not of shelves or bindings where words lay but read me that first line that caught you with your breath held right there, quivering in your throat tell me how it [...]
Sea of Forgetfulness
Posted in elizabeth adams, Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Rumi, Spirituality, tagged Inspire, Poems on November 6, 2011 | 4 Comments »
the sea of forgetfulness plunge yourself into these warm waters where all mistakes yours and mine are honored as the path of evolving souls trembling hearts are forever soothed here minds and bodies restored to its original perfection drink from its ancient wisdom let her sweep you into her tide pulling you in deep, then [...]
Remembering 9/11:A Walk
Posted in Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke, tagged Poems on September 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My eyes already touch the sunny hill, going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp; it has its inner light, even from a distance— and changes us, even if we do not reach it, into something else, which, hardly sensing it, we already are; a [...]
Desire
Posted in elizabeth adams, Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged Poems on March 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Image locale grief came courting me during the night her fields so soft and fragile I buried myself in the whole of her unbroken darkness until a tiny beacon of light cut through the night: sorrow has its inner light, murmured the new day in the arc of stillness, it burns away [...]
Ode to a Cherry Blossom
Posted in elizabeth adams, Happiness, Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged Cherry Blossoms, Poems, Spring on March 8, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Oh, it’s that time again! I re-play this poem I wrote in ’09 every Spring now. The cherry blossoms have just begun to blossom here in the Pacific Northwest. If they are not in your neck of the woods yet, take heart, for they will be shortly. So here it is, an Ode to a [...]
Unstained
Posted in Happiness, Inspiration, Life, Mindfulness, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged Korean Literature, Korean Poetry, Poems on March 1, 2011 | 4 Comments »
A dash of rain upon The lotus leaves. But the leaves Remain unmarked, no matter How hard the raindrops beat. Mind, be like the lotus leaves, Unstained by the world. ~Chong Ch’ol~ Music of the Sky An Anthology of Spiritual Poetry Yes, mind be like the lotus leaves, untainted by outer events. As in the [...]
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