Category Archives: Poemas/cuentos

Theseus – Shakespeare


ACT V SCENE I. Athens. An Apartment in the Palace of THESEUS. [Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, Lords and Attendants.] HIPPOLYTA ‘Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. THESEUS More strange than true. I never may believe These antique … Continue reading

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When you cease …


When you cease to fear your solitude, a new creativity awakens in you. Your forgotten or neglected wealth begins to reveal itself. You come home to yourself and learn to rest within. Thoughts are our inner senses. Infused with silence … Continue reading

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Don’t wish for union!


“Don’t wish for union! There’s a closeness beyond that. Why would God want a second God? Fall in love in such a way that it frees you from any connecting. Love is the soul’s light, the taste of morning, No … Continue reading

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SILENCE VI


What to silence can be compared? In the room, all is quiet, peaceful. Not a movement or stirrings in the air…   The objects, as if consciousness filled, Appear distant yet close, intimate, Silent yet seeming to speak.   A … Continue reading

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Lotus pond sparkling in the sun


It was the lotus pond sparkling in the sun, it was the waving of the flame before the shrine of a little known awakened one, it was the dog drinking my chai. * It was the sharing of simple food … Continue reading

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YOU alone ARE the watcher and the playwright


And when you witnessed a shimmering light did you feel that strange delight as though you watched a play and knew You alone were the watcher and the playwright. You are the one who gasped at the beauty, you alone … Continue reading

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Let us go back once more, O mind…


Let us go back once more, O mind, to our own abode! Here in this foreign land of earth, Why should we wander aimlessly In stranger’s guise?   These living beings round about, and the five elements, Are strangers to … Continue reading

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O Nectar! O delicious stream!…


O Nectar! O delicious stream! O ravishing and only pleasure! Where Shall such another theme Inspire my tongue with joys or please mine ear! Abridgement of delights! And Queen of sights! O mine of rarities! O Kingdom wide! O more! … Continue reading

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Opinions/Passion/Beauty


You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain, therefore, awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. Plato I know full … Continue reading

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Paradiso (Dante)


Within its deep infinity I saw ingathered, and bound by love in one volume, the scattered leaves of all the universe. Dante – Paradiso

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