“How tired I am, my love. How tired. But not tired enough to forget this: That I would dig my fingers through the earth and lift forests by their roots just to find my way home to you. How tired I am, How tired. But I hold on to the colour of your eyes, and the slopes […]
Poetry | Sonnet XVII By Pablo Neruda
Poetry | Call Me by My True Names By Thich Nhat Hanh
Poetry | Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks by Pablo Neruda
Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks All those men were there inside, when she came in totally naked. They had been drinking: they began to spit. Newly come from the river, she knew nothing. She was a mermaid who had lost her way. The insults flowed down her gleaming flesh. Obscenities drowned her golden […]
Poetry | So You Want to Be a Writer ~ Charles Bukowski
Poetry | What to Remember When Waking ~ David Whyte
What to Remember When Waking by David Whyte In that first hardly noticed moment in which you wake, coming back to this life from the other more secret, moveable and frighteningly honest world where everything began, there is a small opening into the new day which closes the moment you begin your plans. What you can […]