Archive of postings to Panhala
-- January 2007 to June 2007
January 2007
WE HAVE NOT COME TO TAKE PRISONERS -- Hafiz
The House of Belonging -- David Whyte
Look to This Day -- from the ancient Sanskrit
Instructions -- Sheri Hostetler
New Year Prayer -- David Whyte
Welcome Morning -- Anne Sexton
Can You Imagine? -- Mary Oliver
All will come again -- Ranier Maria
Rilke
Quaker Worship: The Metaphor Moves in Two Directions --
Jeanne Lohmann
The Giver of Stars -- Amy Lowell
The Love of Morning -- Denise Levertov
Throw Yourself Like Seed -- Miguel De Unamuno
Those Winter Sundays -- Robert Hayden
Primary Wonder -- Denise Levertov
Book of Hours, II, 16 -- Rainer Maria Rilke
No More Cliches -- Octavio Paz
February 2007
What to Remember When Waking -- David Whyte
The Tao of the Trial -- Marilyn Nelson (Bonus Track for
Black History Month)
Over And Over Tune -- Ioanna Carlsen
Scraps of Moon -- Denise Levertov
Learning -- William Stafford (In memory of Molly Ivins)
A Map to the Next World -- Joy Harjo
The Wish to Be Generous -- Wendell Berry
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carry your heart -- e. e. cummings
Love after Love -- Derek Walcott
The Winter of Listening -- David Whyte
WISE MEN KEEP TALKING ABOUT -- Hafiz
In Our Souls -- Antonio Machado
Getting There -- David Wagoner
Any Morning -- William Stafford
we are running -- Lucille Clifton
We Are The Guardians of His Beauty -- Hafiz
Sabbaths 1999, VII -- Wendell Berry
March 2007
In Blackwater Woods -- Mary Oliver
Ninth Duino Elegy (excerpt) --
Rainer Maria Rilke
Picnic, Lightning --
Billy Collins
A Short Course in Zen -- Aart Van Der Leeuw
What Shall He Tell That Son? -- Carl Sandburg
The Bell Ringer (excerpt) -- David Whyte
Beannacht ("Blessing") -- John O'Donohue
BONUS TRACK: For Saint Patrick's Day – A Friendship
Blessing
Why then do we not despair?
-- Anna Akhmatova
At the Teahouse, 6 am -- Holly Hughes
The Spring -- Delmore Schwartz
Another Spring -- Kenneth Rexroth
I Tell You (excerpt) -- Susan Glassmeyer
April 2007
The Unnamable River -- Arthur Sze
The Leaf and the Cloud (excerpt) -- Mary Oliver
Easter Exultet -- James Broughton
The Real Work -- Wendell Berry
What the Heart Wants -- Jane Hirshfield
FERN, COAL, DIAMOND -- Arthur Sze
Lucky Mud -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Well of Grief – David Whyte
(in memory of those lost at Virginia Tech)
To my granddaughters ... -- Wendell Berry
Not dawdling -- James Broughton
BONUS TRACK: Some Rock'n'Roll
Sanity (“Fragments” by The Who)
Ninth Duino Elegy (excerpt for
Earth Day) -- Rainer Maria Rilke
A Rainy Morning -- Ted Kooser (Redux)
This is what you should do
-- Walt Whitman
Talking to God on the Seventh Day -- Ruth L. Schwartz
May 2007
A Suspended Blue Ocean -- Hafiz
seeker of truth -- e. e. cummings
Book of Hours, II, 22 -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Proverbios y Cantares #29 -- Antonio Machado
Kaddish -- David Ignatow (for Mother's
Day)
Invisible Work -- Alison Luterman
(Bonus Track)
Where Does the Temple Begin, Where Does It End? -- Mary
Oliver
It Is I Who Must Begin -- Vaclav Havel
Seeing, in Three Pieces -- Kate Knapp
Directions (excerpt) -- Billy Collins
The Book of Time (excerpt) -- Mary Oliver
Buddhist Barbie -- Denise Duhamel
Book of Hours, I, 18 -- Ranier
Maria Rilke
I Think Continually of Those -- Stephen Spender (for
Memorial Day)
June 2007
The Ball -- Wislawa Szymborska
With the morning dew -- Antonio Machado
Sleeping and Waking -- Naomi Shihab
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Earth Your Dancing Place -- May Swenson
Ten Years Later -- David Whyte
Distances -- Philippe Jaccottet
Shifting the Sun -- Diana Der-Hovanessian
Just Lying on the Grass at Blackwater
-- Mary Oliver
Expect Nothing -- Alice Walker
Little Summer Poem Touching the Subject of Faith -- Mary
Oliver
The Weighing -- Jane Hirshfield