Once again in my Internet wanderings I have come upon a site featuring the poetry of many inspiring poets. The site is called
Poet Seers.
A link to Poet Seers Poet's A-Z Index
What the site says about itself:
Poet Seers website is edited by Abichal Watkins and Tejvan Pettinger, both are students of Sri Chinmoy and are members of the Sri Chinmoy Centre, they wish to share their inspiration from poetry...
Poet Seers is a collection of spiritual and illumining poetry by poets from around the world, including many different spiritual traditions....
The great Seer Poets offer a multitude of insights, experiences and inspirations. Through a diversity of paths and language they remind us we are in essence one world family all journeying back to our common source. Their poems are not just beautiful writings but also their inner experiences and realisations and the lofty utterances of these poets have the capacity to give a glimpse of their poetic vision.
Two of my favorite poems from the site:
The Road Goes Ever On [an excerpt]
By J.R.R. Tolkein
The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet,
And whither then? I cannot say.
The Willow
By William Carlos Williams
It is a willow when summer is over,
a willow by the river
from which no leaf has fallen nor
bitten by the sun
turned orange or crimson.
The leaves cling and grow paler,
swing and grow paler
over the swirling waters of the river
as if loth to let go,
they are so cool, so drunk with
the swirl of the wind and of the river –
oblivious to winter,
[the last to let go and fall
into the water and on the ground.]