Ancient Air
Sacred Heart 32 Climbed high, to gaze upon the sea,Heaven and Earth, so vast, so vast.Frost clothes all things in …
Category Archives: Poetry
Adult
Sacred Heart 31 I’ve come back to the country where I was happychanged. Passion puts no terrible strain on me …
Flight
Through summer airtThe ascending gullDominates the expanse, the sea, the worldUnder the blue, under cloudsLike the whitest wool-tufts,And supreme, regal,It …
A Dream of Mountaineering
Sacred Heart #29 At night, in my dream, I stoutly climbed a mountain,Going out alone with my staff of holly-wood.A …
Two by Li Po
Sacred Heart #24 You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest,|and I smile, and am silent,and even …
Trees
Sacred Heart #21 Lost Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside youAre not lost. Wherever you are is called …
Seen From Above
Sacred Heart #20 On a dirt road lies a dead beetle.Three little pairs of legs carefully folded on his belly.Instead …
A Dream of Mountaineering
Sacred Heart #19 At night, in my dream, I stoutly climbed a mountain Going out alone with my staff of …
Wild Geese
Sacred Heart #17 Above the boat, bellies of wild geese. Takarai Kikaku (1661–1707) was a Japanese haiku poet and among the most accomplished disciples …
The Bulgarian
Sacred Heart #15 Write each of your poems as if it were your last. In this century, saturated with strontium, …
