Rant: Oh Hi! oh boy, it has been a minute since I've last sent you something, and I'm sure your inbox is happy about that - anyway, I was just busy bouncing from one coast to another - a few thoughts I've had in the past week - here's are a few of them : … Continue reading Kahlil Gibran – On Marriage

Unite! Great Humanity Nazim Hikmet The great humanity is the deck-passenger on the ship third class on the train on foot on the causeway the great humanity. The great humanity goes to work at eight marries at twenty dies at forty the great humanity. There is enough bread for all except for the great humanity … Continue reading Nazim Hikmet – Great Humanity

Alright folks I have discovered a new poet and I like-y! His lines are fresh and I love the feeling in his poems - like you can see him through these lines..or hear him - whatever your style is! Anyway, hope all is well out there, and you don't have to spend all the writing … Continue reading Nick Lantz – How to Help a Ghost

David Wagoner Lost Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this place around you, If you leave … Continue reading David Wagoner – Lost

Happy Holiday, Fam! Eat yo Kale Salad and Read Yo Po3try! This is a bit different than what most western friends are used to in terms of Rumi. Most of the Rumi we read in the west are second translations by wonderful Coleman Barks, which often focus on conveying Rumi's message., teachings,  and image of … Continue reading Rumi – Slave of the Moon

“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes and grass grows by itself.” - From Zenrin-kushū... so maybe by Tōyō Eichō or maybe by Bashō Matsuo.. but def by some Zen folks from Japan, possibly Edo period. There's more poetry below, if you want - but really you can stop here - all that needed to be said … Continue reading Zenrin-kushū.

What Was Told, That Jalal al-Din Rumi What was said to the rose that made it open was said to me here in my chest. What was told the cypress that made it strong and straight, what was whispered the jasmine so it is what it is, whatever made sugarcane sweet, whatever was said to … Continue reading Jalal al-Din Rumi – What Was Told, That

I have sent this before - but feel like sending it again - because, I slept 12 hours and woke up feeling wild, because this is my projetc and I'll do what I want (with love)..because I just drank a pot of coffee, because new Kendrick Lamar album is lit af, because I ate a … Continue reading Charles Bukowski – some people

Rant: If someone was to make    Melancholia a drink   it would have been       a lukewarm            cup of black coffee.   I drink it often   without much complaining,                                 don't you?   … Continue reading Li Po – Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain

Poem:   (You can listen to it here - I did many times and I'd recommend) Frank O'Hara Meditations in an Emergency  Am I to become profligate as if I were a blonde? Or religious as if I were French? Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous (and how the same … Continue reading Frank O’Hara – Meditations in an Emergency