Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing
Fully grasped and lived,
Rumi’s words would change our world.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
Love Poem #4: Love Does That by Meister Eckhart
All day long a little burro labors, sometimes
with heavy loads on her back and sometimes just with worries
about things that bother only
burros.
And worries, as we know, can be more exhausting
than physical labor.
Love Poem # 3 : I Know The Way You Can Get by Hafiz
I know the way you can get
When you have not had a drink of Love:
Your face hardens,
Your sweet muscles cramp.
Children become concerned
About a strange look that appears in your eyes
Which even begins to worry your own mirror
And nose.
Love Poem #1: Saint Francis and the Sow by Galway Kinnell
This poem by Galway Kinnell is an invitation to remember.
In his book, Ten Poems to Open Your Heart, Roger Housden writes about “Saint Francis and the Sow”:
“This is one of those poems that acts on me cell by cell…
