in your heart

If in your heart you make
a manger for Love's birth,
Then God will once again
become a child on earth.







Angelus Silesius
Photo:  Peter Bowers

Who is there to say this?

The true voice of what is
Does not need to speak
Because there is nothing else
Apart from it to listen.

Two men debating in a dream
However clever
Cannot come up with anything
The dreamer doesn't know already
Just as two lovers
Cannot better
Love

Without departing from itself
How can the one voice
Say its name?

Without dividing from itself
How can the undivided
See its face?

Mirrors and echoes alone
Are the world we call real -
But what we really are -
Who is there
To say this?





Kavita

mirror

 
...beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
But you are life and you are the veil.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror. 





Kahlil Gibran
Photo:  Peter Bowers

Good Medicine

Unbelief is good medicine, undoing belief
     better:
all beings free to leave their being
     and enter silence.

The nameless tree with its forest
     of green,
the endless expanse called
     sky, beaks and

feathered wings with their urgent
     conversations;
all around, the light that sets the vital body
     to humming,

and the dark of re-creation:
     the world held for us in promise
until it is loosened from
     our thinking.





Andrew Colliver
with thanks:  Poetry Chaikhana
Photo:  Peter Bowers