( by April Bernard )

You can cut
all the flowers
but you cannot
keep Spring from coming.
~Pablo Neruda

Some time when the river is ice ask me ( Read more... )

( Wait. )

Never Give Up
Wednesday 26 December 2007, by HH the XIV Dalai Lama
( poem )

In your light
I learn how to love.
In your beauty,
how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,
but sometimes I do,
and that sight becomes this art.

The Peace of Wild Things ( Read more... )

Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief.
Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now.
You are not obligated to complete the work,
but neither are you free to abandon it.
-The Talmud

The same stream of life
that runs through my veins night and day
runs through the world
and dances in rhythmic measures.
It is the same life
that shoots in joy
through the dust of the earth
in numberless blades of grass
and breaks into tumultuous waves
of leaves and flowers.
― Rabindranath Tagore

Sundays too my father got up early ( Read more... )