Best Merton Poems

Could it be that two city streets meet at a portal
of awakening that leads to enlightenment?
May your next frontier be "Inter-Be" discovery.

Nearly forty years ago...

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In order to know and love God as He is, we must have God dwelling in us in a new way, not only in His...

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*** Words Vanish ***

Words vanish!
Disperse — as prayer begun  
Moves to clear the mind 
    And bare the heart,
Swelling the soul...

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“In an age where there is much talk about ‘being yourself,’ I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself.” Thomas Merton

When I...

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“Cannot be named
Cannot be found,”
For in this effort--this person
Into non-Tao becomes wound.
The Tao was before time’s beginning.
The Tao is not found in complex systems,
But is...

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“It is that life itself, fully awake, fully active, 
fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder.”
Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation

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Dark rain...

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Life's greatest heated human tragedy
the one we are likely taught not to see.
Our wide-ranging worlds are well connected,
as atoms wiggle we're all effected.
Separation is optic...

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Spiritual Communion is about Agape,
about Sacred CoEmpathy
about Yin’s Love,
which is Erotic Yang fertility Love of deeply dense nutrition,
but disembodied,
implicate (David Bohm)
concave rather than convex (Buckminster...

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***  Devoted, Choosing  to Hold ***

Engaged
By your spirit; 
My heart to yours; my heart’s hoping ~
Choosing,
Not that long after we met.  
Completely...

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After a short illness keeping me off Soup, and a 50-year refrain from Prose Poetry, I was inspired by a Thomas Merton talk about Rilke...

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I'm reading this book about germs and guns and steel
and pre-history
and human history,
predators and prey,
and people praying they won't be predatored.

You know,
light bedtime reading.

So, this...

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Where's Your Poetic Voice? 

How to render it contemporary, unique, one in the whole wide world? 

Be elusive, a multi-headed, myriad-brained grandchild of Loch Ness?...

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Just As Big A Crook
Are all the Republicans;
Not release tax returns.

Obviously, they are afraid
of what tax returns will
reveal as well as checking
out his relationship with
Russia...

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“….it is a sea of Love which flows through the One Body....”
  Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation.

The sea of Love
fills my lungs
courses through
open...

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‘No clock: only the Heart’s blood. Only the word.”
“I think poetry must, 
I think it must, 
Stay open all night 
In beautiful cellars”  ...

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