Gimme, Gimme, Gimme
“But now a strange thing befell me; my despair gave place to an unlooked-for tranquility. … True, I had no …
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The Need to Win
When an archer is shooting for nothing He has all his skill. If he shoots for a brass buckle He …
Two by Swir
Thank You, My Fate Great humility fills me, great purity fills me, I make love with my dear as if …
All Paths Lead to Me
He who knows me as his own divine Self, As the Operator in him, breaks through The belief he is …
Non-attachment
Old Man at Leisure Sacred or secular manners and conventions make no difference to him. Completely fee leaving it all …
Two Poems on Death
For the Anniversary of My Death Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires …
Two Poems by Tu Fu
CLEAR AFTER RAIN Autumn, cloud blades on the horizon. The west wind blows from ten thousand miles. Dawn, in the …
Song of Songs
My love is white and ruddy, one in ten thousand. His head is like the finest gold, his locks are …
A Prayer that will be Answered
Lord let me suffer much and then die Let me walk through silence and leave nothing behind not even fear …
Troparion
Lord, This woman who encountered her shadow perceives the numinous in You, leads the women who come with grief and …
