The Muse Of Turfing

 

Ace Of Cups

 

 

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep. - Rumi

The Friday Mash-Up

“The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.” -Rainer Maria Rilke

“Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or [...]

The Drug Of A Nation...

“BEWARE THE NON-PSYCHEDELIC — A non-psychedelic can NEVER enlighten a psychedelic.” –Ganesh Baba

Illustration Of A Tao Imprint
He stands apart
serene
curiously observing
He stands quietly
looking forlorn
like an infant who has not yet
learned to know what to smile at
He is a little sad for what he sees
While others enjoy their possessions
he lazily drifts, a homeless
do-nothing, owning nothing
Or he moves [...]

Three Poets For Saturday…

Creation’s Witness

At time’s beginning
that beauty
which polished creation’s mirror
caressed every atom
with a hundred thousand suns.
But this glory
was never witnessed.
When the human eye emerged,
only then was he known.
-Abdul-Qader Bedil
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This entry is based on what I placed in my Poetry Sanctuary out front of Caer Llwydd this morning. I find as much pleasure in sharing these as I [...]

Berlin

“I do not want to squander — the last penny of my soul among youths bred in a hothouse” – Osip Mandlestam, Noise of Time

A short entry….
Gwyllm

On The Menu:
Andy Warhol Quotes
Candy Says” – Lou Reed & Antony
Delmore Schwartz Poetry
Lou Reed – Caroline Says Prt2
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Andy Warhol Quotes:
“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need [...]

Harvest / Lugnasadh…

“Only those who are lost in error follow the poets.” – Qur’an 26.224, trans. M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

So Lammas/Lugnasadh is upon us… The wheel turns and the Harvest is here:
We have ploughed, we have sowed,
We have reaped, we have mowed,
We have brought home every load,
Hip, hip, hip, Harvest Home!
Now Lammas comes in, our harvest begin,
We have done [...]