Daily Archives: September 14, 2010

Training the Hudson

A poem by Jerome Into the fog……can you see? Great blue herons lurch into it, geese in rows float through it. A lone sentinel marks the channel where depth and shallow are obscured….. Can you see?

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The wisdom of Rumi

Friend, our closeness is this Anywhere you put your foot Feel me in the firmness under you How ist it with this love I see your world and not you ? From: the illuminated Rumi

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Stillness behind the words

Buddha – a poem by Rainer M. Rilke for J.D. As if he listened. Quiet…something far… We hold our breath, hearing it no longer. And he is star. And other giant stars, unseen by us, orbit him out yonder. He … Continue reading

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