Rumi Lovers! Enjoy this original collection of 170 poems. Much like Rumi, the renowned 13th century Persian mystic poet, the author of this book found a God-Realized spiritual teacher to explore the Divine -- along with the challenges and ecstasies of spiritual transformation in love, surrender, weakness and strength -- one Soul’s journey along an illuminated path in the 21st century.Barbara was a video artist in New York whose work is housed in the Museum of Moder...

“Immediate, sensual, unrelentingly intense.” —NPRA breathtaking volume about the violence of desire and the peace of love from celebrated poet Li-Young Lee, The Undressing is a tonic for spiritual anemia; it attempts to uncover things hidden since the dawn of the world. Short of achieving that end, these mysterious, unassuming poems investigate the human violence and dispossession increasingly prevalent around the world, and the horrors the poet grew up wi...

Loba is a visionary epic quest for the reintegration of the femimine, hailed by many as the great female counterpart to Allen Ginsberg's Howl when the first half appeared in 1978. Now published for the first time in its completed form with new material, Loba, "she-wolf" in Spanish explores the wilderness at the heart of experience, through the archetype of the wolf goddess, elemental symbol of complete self-acceptance.

In this part of the "My Body is a Forest", esp. "Elm/Left Arm", I have included poems of strength, courage, nature, manhood, and human kindness. It is with this "body part", we as humans lift ourselves above the daily troubles that strife us all, to something nobler: like human compassion, caring, empathy, and just plain working things out.This book, holds, so to speak, one half of the courageous poems, about divorce, hurt, and how to rise above those things. Some are hard poems, d...

A compilation of forty-nine poems spanning a decade, Footprint of an Elephant, is a journey of the human path, different for each walker but containing a common human thread. Penetrating beyond the thin and superficial veil of ethnicity, creed, color, culture, and the like, Footprint of an Elephantwith its three sections: Awakening, Uprising, and Conquestis an exploration of one walkers path.

Opposite poles of the magnet same.One rests in the north,The other is in the south.Quiet eyes with the laughter loud,Encompassing a calmed soulAs well as a nosy heart.Her mind, a battlefield.Her bod, a shrine.With the rings of fireAlong its depths,She is an ocean.That's at outburst.

These 81 poems have been written over the course of several years, and therefore reflect a myriad of sensibilities. Some of the poems reflect emotions as they pertain to being a woman, feeling judged, abused, inadequate, but also powerful after confronting inner demons. This collection is also reflective of an appreciation of nature, and goddess imagery as a form of strength and female empowerment.

A selection of diverse poetry chronologically spanning five decades

A poet of osmosis explores the implicit relationship between matter and spirit, the interconnectedness of the universe.In his first full-length collection since 1998's Parish of the Psychic Moon, Don Domanski writes with clarity of vision. He is a poet of the holiness of subtleties, a master of mindfulness and being. His writing is a form of osmosis, spirit seeping through the details of each poem, creating a marvel of metaphysics and language distilled to...

Poetry written in free verse. A man's journey brings him to the power of the infinite source.

How do you explain to the old writer or man or woman, that when he was a young man or woman he was just as good a writer or person that he or she is now. What he (generically) was timeless and beautiful and grand and bold, etc. etc., yet it was most appropriate to the audience of that age group as well?What I have written as an older man may indeed be better crafted, richer in life experience, zest, and power, yet what i was wrote as a young was also full of talent, zest, and power...

The author invites you on her journey...A spiritual life quest to find a partner. She encounters many soulmates along the way. Those who become detours, blessings, roadblocks, heartbreaks, and ultimately teachers. Reminding her that everything she is seeking lies within herself.Experience her profound angst, heartache, and joy in this search for pure love.