Maya Angelou Poetry • Passing Time • Reading this beautiful poem by Maya Angelou •

Your skin like dawn
Mine like musk

Pablo Neruda Poetry • Lost in the forest • Reading this beautiful poem by Pablo Neruda •

Lost in the forest, I broke off a dark twig
and lifted its whisper to my thirsty lips:

Pablo Neruda Poetry • Here I Love You • Reading this beautiful poem by Pablo Neruda •

Here I love you.
In the dark pines the wind disentangles itself.

Rumi Poetry • Every day I bear a burden • Reading this beautiful poem by Rumi •

Every day I bear a burden, and I bear this calamity for a purpose:
I bear the discomfort of cold and December's snow in hope of spring.

Rumi Poetry • Any lifetime • Reading this beautiful poem by Rumi •

Any lifetime that is spent without seeing the master
Is either death in disguise or a deep sleep.

Maya Angelou Poetry • Alone • Reading this beautiful poem by Maya Angelou •

Lying, thinking
Last night
How to find my soul a home
Where water is not thirsty

Rabindranath Tagore Poetry • Flower • Reading this beautiful poem by Rabindranath Tagore •

Pluck this little flower and take it, delay not! I fear lest it
droop and drop into the dust.

Rabindranath Tagore Poetry • Baby's way • Reading this beautiful poem by Rabindranath Tagore •

If baby only wanted to, he could fly up to heaven this moment.
It is not for nothing that he does not leave us.

Maya Angelou Poetry • When You Come • Reading this beautiful poem by Maya Angelou •

When you come to me, unbidden,
Beckoning me
To long-ago rooms,
Where memories lie.

Maya Angelou Poetry • Touched by an Angel • Reading this beautiful poem by Maya Angelou •

We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness