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• This Week’s Poem - A Love Like That by Hafiz

  A poem by the Sufi mystic Hafiz/Hafez.
  A Love Like ThatBy Hafiz
  EvenAfterAll this timeThe sun never says to the earth,“You owe Me.”Look What happensWith a love like that.It lights theWholeSky.
  Source: The Gift

  Amazon.com: The Gift: Books: Hafiz,Daniel Ladinsky
  ISBN: 0140195815ISBN-13: 9780140195811

  Technorati tags: poem. poetry, Hafiz, Hafez, Sufi, love, mysticism

  November 13th, 2007

• Night Terror - A Poem by Yours Truly

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  This poem recalls a night during my teenage years when my sleep was disturbed by a dream, a nightmare really, that Jesus had returned, the rapture had taken place, and I had been left behind.  This was in the days well before the Left Behind “novels” had been written.  No,the books that caused [...]

  October 13th, 2007

• Deus absconditus

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  drybarrenmy heart a desertmy soul a wilderness filled with wild beastsfearsorrowangerdoubtwhere is the God of my salvationDeus absconditus.
  I seek but do not findI am in Sheolbut You are not thereforsakenI cry out for your presencebut hear only the echoes of my anguish in replyI need your loveI need your Spiritelse [...]

  October 5th, 2007

• Video of the Week - Part Two: Forgetfulness by Billy Collins

  I am a big fan of Billy Collin’s poetry.  Here is a video of him reading his poem “Forgetfulness” accompanied by some cool animation.

  Discovered at “You watched the quadratic equation pack its bag.”, originally posted by JMW on Saturday, 04 August 2007.  Thanks for this, JMW!
  Technorati tags: video, poetry, poem, animation, Billy Collins, Forgetfulness

  August 9th, 2007

• This Week’s Poem: ‘How Could I Ever Forget That Flash of Light’ - Mitsuyoshi Toge

  Last week the blog “God’s Politics” ran this poem by Mitsuyoshi Toge in commemoration of the 62nd anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.  As the post stated: 
  Mitsuyoshi Toge, born in Hiroshima in 1917, was a Catholic and a poet. He was in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped on the city on August 6, 1945, [...]

  August 5th, 2007