Poems.....

I love the poetry of the Sufi mystic Jalaal'udin Rumi. He has an elegant way with simple imagery -  and some of his poems posess a real earthy directness that can shake you out of your complacency.....

At last you've left and gone to the Invisible; How marvellous the way you  quit this world.

You ruffled your feathers; and breaking free of your cage, You took to the air, bound for you soul's world...

A love-sick nightingale amongst owls, you caught The scent of roses, and flew to the rose garden.

Here are a couple of poems by a favourite Irish poet of mine, Patrick Kavanagh - these two in particular really inspired me when I was growing up to see everything around me as all wondrous manifestations of the same Source....