Old handwritten manuscript

Poems

A miscellany of poems I enjoy. Some are insightful and some are goofy and some I just think are beautiful.

For poems that I think go well together, at least looked at slantwise in a particular light, try Poem Pairings.

  • You and I

    You and I

    A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. We feel the flowing water of life here, you and I, with the garden’s beauty and the birds singing. The stars will be watching us, and we will show them what it is to be…

  • The Guest House

    The Guest House

    This being human is a guest house.

  • What is not true

    What is not true

    There is nothing but water in the holy pools.

  • The Keeper of Sheep: 10

    The Keeper of Sheep: 10

    What does the blowing wind say to you?

  • The Field

    The Field

    Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,

  • The Way It Is

    The Way It Is

    There’s a thread you follow.

  • Highest Price

    Highest Price

    ‘Who will buy me, who

  • Here

    Here

    My steps along this street

  • Honey at the Table

    Honey at the Table

    It fills you with the soft essence of vanished flowers