Poem

  • Gary Snyder

    A few light flakes of snow Fall in the feeble sun; Birds sing in the cold,…

  • W.S. Merwin

    The quiet morning has a few cloud friends that are gone when I look for them…

  • Kosho Uchiyama

    Like the sunbeam In a beautiful Autumn Morning, I, both body and mind, would like to…

  • Nanyue

    The mind-ground fully sown, When moisture comes, all seeds sprout The formless flower of samadhi, How…

  • Dongshan

    Avoid seeking somewhere else Or you will be far from the self. These days I am…

  • Tao-ch’uan

    Walking into the distance, traveling since your youth Crossing so many rivers, climbing so many peaks…

  • Han-shan

    Now I have a single robe, Not made of gauze or of figured silk. Do you…

  • Jane Hirshfield

    They have discovered, they say, the protein of itch— natriuretic polypeptide b— and that it travels…

  • Terrance Hayes

    American Sonnet For The New Year things got terribly ugly incredibly quickly things got ugly embarrassingly…

  • Mary Oliver

    I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how…