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 …
Category Archives: Poetry
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, …
Enough
Sacred Heart 14 Trailing my stick I go down to the garden edge, call to a monk to go out …
The Merton Prayer
Sacred Heart 13 My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road …
Our Revels Now are Ended
Sacred Heart #12 “Be cheerful, sir: Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all …
Gilgamesh
Sacred Heart #11 The destiny was fulfilled which the father of the gods, |Enlil of the mountain, had decreed for …
Everything is Swinging
Sacred Heart #10 Between the conscious and the unconscious, the mind has put up a swing: all earth creatures, even …
Pax
Sacred Heart #9 All that matters is to be one with the living God to be a creature in the …
Remembering the Sacred Self 