Mystical
The essence of spirituality is often difficult to put into words. But here are some of the best attempts humanity has ever made.
18 poems
For a new beginningby John O'Donohue, 1956 ~ 2008“The delight when your courage kindled and out you stepped onto new ground”
How do I love theeby Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806 ~ 1861“if God choose I shall but love thee better after death”
How long we were fool'dby Walt Whitman, 1819 ~ 1892“We have voided all but our own freedom, all but our own joy”
I carry your heartby e.e. cummings, 1894 ~ 1962“This is the wonder that is keeping the stars apart.”
Ideas of right and wrongby Rumi, 1207 ~ 1273“Let the beauty we love be what we do”- Love, mere loveby Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806 ~ 1861“Let temple burn, or flax and an equal light leaps in the flames from cedar plank or weed. And love is fire.”
Nowby Robert Browning, 1812 ~ 1889“When ecstasies uptmost we clutch at the core”
On Loveby Kahlil Gibran, 1883 ~ 1931“Let love be a moving sea between the shores of your souls”- On marriageby Kahlil Gibran, 1883 ~ 1931“Be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night”
Salt Rose and Topazby Pablo Neruda, 1904 ~ 1973“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul”- Song of the Open Roadby Walt Whitman, 1819 ~ 1892“I give you myself before preaching or law”
Song of Wandering Aengusby W.B. Yeats, 1865 ~ 1939“We will pluck til times and times are done, the silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the sun”- The Beauty we loveby Rumi, 1207 ~ 1273“The moment I heard my first love story I went looking for you”
The kissby Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 ~ 1941“Love is writing a song in a delicate script, kiss-calligraphy on lips”
The Trueloveby David Whyte, b. 1955“You’ve simply had enough of drowning and you want to live and you want to love and you will walk across any territory and any darkness however fluid and however dangerous to take the one hand you know belongs in yours.”- When faces called flowersby e.e. cummings, 1894 ~ 1962“Alive; we’re alive, dear: it’s(kiss me now)spring!”
Wild Geeseby Mary Oliver, 1935 ~ 2019“You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”
Your Cathedralby Wilfred O'Dea, c1910? ~ unknown“You draw from me broken now holy that yes”