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I’m not a poet, but I’ve read enough bad poetry to recognise what poets shouldn’t do…
Originally posted on BRIDGET WHELAN writer:
I’m not a poet. In fact, one of the exercises in my guide to creative writing* is called the I-don’t-want-to-right-a-poem poetry exercise. The fact that I’m not a poet makes me well-qualified to support a writer taking their first tentative steps (you wouldn’t want to sit next to Bill…
THESE ARE THY WONDERS
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
how fresh o lord is your morbid flower that plays with spring as in a dream and returns in so many other colors only to redeem the world with fragrance? how strange is the land of evening beauty so strange to reincarnate flowers to which all grief melts away in…
The Power of Wealth
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
Gratitude, is lost in this world Of possession, accumulation, hoarding You seek security, and end up losing choice? And you want prosperity, trading it for freedom? Learn then from God’s few messengers This alchemy, be satisfied with what you are given For greed takes away from some other person? And…
FATE OF HUMANITY
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
Beloved, how am I to say? How should the soul fly Or find wings, for this heart’s powerful memories That Love might win out over time And sea not be ruined by our cities Beloved, I have stood For the duration of many suns But nobody is saved from impermanence…
last pearl of the Rubaiyat
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
i sent my soul through invisible spaces that became invisibly near the One, some letters of the after-life Heav’n by and by left me pure to face the obstacles that will soon expire for mortality is magic shadow and i am spirit sun-illumined this i know as well as the…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 