When you find the way
Others will find you
Passing by on the road
They will be drawn to your door
The way that cannot be heard
will be reflected in your voice
The way that cannot be seen
Will be reflected in your eyesLao Tzu
This an excerpt of Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman. It is a beautiful tribute to life. We should start by acknowledging that life is perfect as it is. Only then can we become aware of its beauty, our beauty, and the sense of Wholeness that surrounds it. Sigue leyendo
Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, novelist, musician,painter and playwright who reshaped Bengali literature and music. As author of Gitanjali with its “profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse”, he was the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1913). Sigue leyendo
Charles Bukowski, born in 1920, began writing at a young age and was first published in the 1940s. Then Bukowksi gave up writing for the world of work and bars, not publishing, not writing, so the myth goes, for nearly twenty years. After that period we resumed his writing work. Sigue leyendo
Heart! We will forget him!
Heart! We will forget him!
You and I — tonight!
You may forget the warmth he gave –
I will forget the light!
When you have done, pray tell me
That I may straight begin!
Haste! lest while you’re lagging
I remember him!
——- Sigue leyendo
“The Moon cascades in smile,
Her beams run flooding o’er;
O thou Rajanigandha!
Thy fragrance please do pour.
And hither lo the insane air
Who fails to feel who calls it where,
As all the flowers he breezes past
Seems beloved more!
Tonight the ether blue
In face did sandal smear,
The swans of Saraswati
Do fly tonight in pair!
How you sprinkle, Moon, on earth
The stamens of the divine Parijat,
O which celestial belle has lit
Her nuptial candle there!”
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes. Sigue leyendo
Haiku is a poetic form and a type of poetry from the Japanese culture. Haiku combines form, content, and language in a meaningful, yet compact form. Haiku poets write about everyday things. Many themes include nature, feelings, or experiences. Usually they use simple words and grammar. The most common form for Haiku is three short lines. The first line usually contains five syllables, the second line seven syllables, and the third line contains five syllables.
The following haiku catches the essence of the very moment in which the sea and the land meet each other:
Waves that crash against
the rocks that lie in the shore
coming and going.
DO NOT LET
Do not forsake the yearning to make your life something special.
Be sure to believe that words and poetry it can change the world.
Whatever happens, our essence is intact.
We are beings full of passion. Life is desert and oasis.
We breakdowns, hurts us, teaches us, makes us protagonists of our own history.
Although the wind blow against the powerful work continues:
You can make a stanza. Never stop dreaming, because in a dream, man is free.
Do not fall into the worst mistakes: the silence.
Most live in a dreadful silence. Do not resign escape.
“Issued by my alaridos roofs of this world,” says the poet. Sigue leyendo