Divining the future through mirrors
We brought mirrors into our lives for various reasons. Their reflection is what stirs something inside us. Whether it is the self-judgemental inner critic of our superficial appearance does not ...
Corrupted purity: Chinese poetic mastery meets contemporary reality
My short poem about purity was inspired by some of the eternal truths shared in the poems of perhaps the greatest Chinese poet Du Fu. Also known in the West ...
You Are Love poem
You are love You are loved I love you Said The soul In the dark Hour of the night ∼ We all need self-love. Always reliable, independent. You are here ...
The Moon: her, the mirror of light in the darkness of cyclic renewal
The Moon has fascinated humanity ever since our eyes opened to the changing, cyclic pattern outside in our natural world. From the ancient Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Egypt, China, India, from the ...
Western Tea Musing: My own hands hold the passage of time
This is a tea musing of a tea lady that travels East to West in circles transcending the physical boundaries on the map of the Earth. I dropped a goji ...
Kings and Queens: a poetic call for equality
Kings and Queens is a symbolic poem about balance creating more stability, fulfilment and genuine joy in relationships. I am the light, and darkness won’t rip it away The lunar ...
My favorite letter is a sky… which is yours?
My favorite letter is not in the Latin alphabet, and as much as I adore the Arabic painterly abjad, it is the roots of the Chinese calligraphy that won over ...
Hunter and the bull
I play with the hunter and the bull... Hope is a strong belief Dogma promises invincible truth While possibility welcomes faith Conviction rules out fear But the only way to ...
The eternal wisdom of Lao Tzu condensed into poetry
It is a daring act of self-inflicted ridicule to condense the eternal wisdom of Lao Tzu into a poem of my own. In Tao Te Ching he potentially mocks my work ...
