The Ode of Tarafah (Tarafah ibn al Abd Poems)
A young gazelle there is in the tribe, dark-lipped, fruit-shaking,flaunting a double necklace of pearls and topazes,holding aloof, with the ...
A young gazelle there is in the tribe, dark-lipped, fruit-shaking,flaunting a double necklace of pearls and topazes,holding aloof, with the ...
One was a bay cowhorse from Piedra & the other was a washed out palominoAnd both stood at the rail ...
Who painted thy wings for a vision, a pageant of summer,Butterfly gay?Who made thee, thou hovering silence for ever at ...
Go! leave me, Priest; my soul would be Alone with the consoler, Death;Far sadder eyes than thine will see This crumbling clay ...
When evening came and the warm glow grew deeper And every tree that bordered the green meadows And in the yellow cornfields ...
Worldly affairs are all deceptive;So I seek the Truth Divine.Excitements and distractions are illusions;So I meditate on the Non-dual Truth.Companions ...
It was formerly believed, on a sea-battered shorethough the storm at home blasted,that in the distant west there still lay ...
Veritas sequitur ...In the small beauty of the forestThe wild deer bedding down-That they are there! Their eyesEffortless, the soft lipsNuzzle ...
witharms outstretchedand crowned with wispsof seaweed hair she floats, eyes closedin a world of perfect silencethat is loud enoughto hearlighta ...
_She_. How soft the night wind strokes the meadow grasses And, breathing music, through ...
By night a laddered diagram seen from the windows of this bedroom town-rayflowcrs of dread ascending and descending- identifies the ...
Thinking more deeply and a bit of whimsy nature and wonder power and nurture thinking about multi-tasking and the proficiency ...
Thinking more deeply and a bit of whimsy thinking about multi-tasking and the proficiency of man Thinking about the trinity ...
A red, red rose, posing in the vase on the counter a reminder of the beauty of summer of the ...
Driving home, October noontime a hawk to my left, above the tree line, catching the thermals off the highway It ...
Dearest, note how these two are alike: This harpsicord pavane by Purcell And the racer's twelve-speed bike. The machinery of ...
It was a pure white cloud that hung there in the blue, or a jellyfish on a waveless sea, suspended ...
Here at the Super Duper, in a glass tank Supplied by a rill of cold fresh water Running down a ...
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