http://poeticinsight.gather.com Recent Articles on Gather by Poetic expressions en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:05:24 GMT 2010-01-01T17:05:24Z en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 http://www.gather.com/images/header/logo_gather.gif http://www.gather.com/ http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977971521&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace     Someone asked the Buddha “What is the greatest of all gifts? The World Honored one answered “To be born a human being”   1/1/2010 11:41 AM Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:52:21 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977971521&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace John Doyle 2010-01-01T16:52:21Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977971508&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace Old acquaintance, Not forgot, But burned In memories, dear, Brought to mind, As oft' as not, By words, We seldom hear.   Happy New Years, New beginnings, A traced clear line, . . . Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:33:43 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977971508&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace Ron (in complete sheeple overload) W. 2010-01-01T16:33:43Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977971409&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace     “And Mary kept all these things Reflecting on them on her heart” Mary the Mother of God Mary the Mother of contemplatives   1/1/2010 9:25 AM Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:33:22 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977971409&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace John Doyle 2010-01-01T14:33:22Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977971203&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace A New Year resolution, what the heck for? It lasts usually one month, and then nothing more. I want to earn big bucks, I want to spend less. Resolutions are always made , but then we soon . . . Fri, 01 Jan 2010 08:42:55 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977971203&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace Cherry Popsicle 2010-01-01T08:42:55Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977971116&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace Although the air is brisk, the sky is bright I lay on the pure white blanket of snow Feeling the cold seep into my body Freezing my senses, enveloping my soul . . . Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:55:29 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977971116&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace Angie O. 2010-01-01T05:55:29Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977971114&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace We've been together for almost a year and a half.  There's been great learning and sharing of work--some raw, some polished--all valuable.  This month we move into collaboration. In . . . Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:52:21 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977971114&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace Susan Budig 2010-01-01T05:52:21Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977971071&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace The Light by which you See All that appears is the Light of Awareness. Even the Darkest Night is seen in the Light of Awareness You Are Without the Light of Awareness You Are All You See would disappear. . . . Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:01:12 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977971071&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace Richard Hay 2010-01-01T05:01:12Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977970898&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace     Two winged smiles * Smile has two wings. It glides over the glade, wet. Now Mrs. Neighbor will come out. Fresh water will be sprinkled on her precious lawn, a patch, . . . Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:51:19 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977970898&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace Kushal Poddar 2010-01-01T00:51:19Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977970518&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace If your hands were tied with a wire And put into flames of fire Would you cry, cry till its burnt   If your shoes were ripped off your foot And given to your boss's . . . Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:56:52 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977970518&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace Noble Chinwendu 2009-12-31T18:56:52Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977970486&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace   Love, Given, Taken, Placed Love is when you take your heart and Give it to someone; Be it friend or fellow human, You are empty till it’s done. . . . Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:42:25 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977970486&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace Greg Wright 2009-12-31T18:42:25Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977970464&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace   The songs are the same The songs are the same we sing in our hearts. The trees are the same Those we foster in our gardens. The waves are the same Those climb . . . Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:08:08 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977970464&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace vijay kumar 2009-12-31T18:08:08Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977969862&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace   Living Waters I sit on a hill overlooking a lake, Sunbeams like diamond sparks glisten; Prisms in my mind; breathing in stillness, Birds sing; I quietly . . . Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:50:45 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977969862&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace Greg Wright 2009-12-31T15:50:45Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977970262&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace     A thousand stories, koans, and teaching tales Trace through my mind and yet I cannot put even one to paper   Beset by what I will always think of As the Decade of . . . Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:15:15 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977970262&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace John Doyle 2009-12-31T15:15:15Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977970118&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace     A cold gray dawning Snow is falling, wind howling A winter morning   12/31/2009 8:01 AM Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:07:32 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977970118&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace John Doyle 2009-12-31T13:07:32Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977969803&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace                 My dear son,   Dexter, I must tell you, how you got your name . . . Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:57:55 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977969803&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace Elsie Duggan 2009-12-31T07:57:55Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977969675&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace   An automatic poem always sits in the closet and waits......while the . . . Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:17:32 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977969675&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace Atticus *. 2009-12-31T05:17:32Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977969578&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace A drift in norms of stay Something has left leaves down bare For green to yellow become next day Someday's promise that they will grow again Being plucked and fallen yet another day Eternal . . . Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:40:14 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977969578&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace Satya Jell 2009-12-31T03:40:14Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977969501&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace Twenty-seven years ago my first husband and I separated. It was just a few weeks before Christmas and I really thought that it was going to be a very depressing holiday season that year. My children . . . Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:19:01 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977969501&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace Lorelei aka:Ladymermaid 2009-12-31T02:19:01Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977969404&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace Rain on a world of the third kind A healthy baby born in a power cut; three men hovering over it to retrieve; cold water clogs the paths. Whispers and screams float like . . . Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:23:58 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977969404&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace Kushal Poddar 2009-12-31T00:23:58Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977969279&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace Your words paint the world in vibrant hues. Your words are harmonious, exquisite, timeless. Your words feed my mind and nourish my soul. Your words are the song in my dance. Without your words, . . . Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:48:23 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977969279&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace Jennifer Lee 2009-12-30T22:48:23Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977969210&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace     Unless you have explosives In your shorts Or a bomb in your bra Why should you object To a full body scan Especially when for many Taking off all their clothes Is phase . . . Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:49:54 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977969210&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace John Doyle 2009-12-30T21:49:54Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977969193&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace (Gather won't accept Jamendo's beautiful widget so that you can play the album here -Jamendo widgets post everywhere else - even on my Facebook page!, but if you click on the direct link you'll go to . . . Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:27:39 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977969193&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace Brenda Clews 2009-12-30T21:27:39Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977969024&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace Last night when I saw you by the garden wall Feeling sour, feeling pour and I drew you close and rise Held you up, dried your wet eyes I felt nice inside, in the dead winter I'll tell you why. . . . Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:03:14 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977969024&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace Noble Chinwendu 2009-12-30T19:03:14Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977968840&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace As winter’s icy grip settled in The Bard Sat alone, The staff of power across his knees   As he half dozed he felt the staff Begin to vibrate and then to throb And a vision . . . Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:49:06 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977968840&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace John Doyle 2009-12-30T16:49:06Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977968701&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace       Descending Notes     The hidden place - Where I lick cinnamon, White hot darkness, Un-gated.   Gated.  Juggle my life . . . Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:52:56 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977968701&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace Barbary Chaapel 2009-12-30T14:52:56Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977968398&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace   To My Father, Who Walked Into Heaven Easter Sunday, April 4th, 1999 (Slightly After the First Guy) My Father can be everywhere, now that he is free From the chains . . . Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:17:39 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977968398&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace Greg Wright 2009-12-30T13:17:39Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977968582&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace A trickle of my mentality On to paper; through my pen A trickle of my mortality Common, simplistic; indifference An unfathomable fate; strange Foreseen through ignorance and hate An utterly undeniable . . . Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:09:15 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977968582&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace Peter O. 2009-12-30T13:09:15Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977968230&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace Afraid to dance for fear of falling down, I'm sure you'll catch me before I land. Afraid to love for fear of my heart breaking, I'm as sure of you as I am that the sun and moon rise. Afraid to . . . Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:08:25 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977968230&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace Jennifer Lee 2009-12-30T06:08:25Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977968198&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace     If all religious literature and discourse Was stripped bare of metaphor, slimily Speculation, inference and conjecture What would be left? The naked truth perhaps?   . . . Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:36:55 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977968198&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace John Doyle 2009-12-30T05:36:55Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977968183&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace     Much is preached of Emptiness But how can a discourse on the subject Have any value when it is filled with sounds?   12/30/2009 12:13 AM Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:20:26 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977968183&grpId=3659174697239346&nav=Groupspace John Doyle 2009-12-30T05:20:26Z