Poems We Recited in Santa Rosa

Doug Von Koss:

Rumi – What I Want

Rumi – I’m Here by the Gate

Rumi – All Day I Think About it

Rumi – For Sixty Years

Rumi – Today, Like every other day

Rumi – The minute I heard my first love story

Rumi – The hand opens and closes

Rumi – The tender words we’ve said

Wendell Berry – We clasp the hands

Inuit – Magic Words

Hansen – Jump Rope Rhyme (Tat Svam Asi)

Pablo Neruda – Ode to My Socks

 

Gwynn O’Gara:

Rumi – The Way to Love
Neruda – Then Come Back
Tomas Transtromer – Vermeer

 

Kay Crista:

Hafiz – The Truth Is, God, I Have Been Covering Your Butt

Hafiz – Someone Untied Your Camel

Marie Howe – The Singularity 

Climbing Poetree – Being Human

Tom Barrett – What’s In the Temple 

Fred Lamott – My Ancestry DNA Results 

David Wagoner – Lost

Neruda – Too Many Names

 

Maya Spector:

Fred Lamott – Election

Deena Metzger – Rift Valley 

Francis Dorff – Lightening the Load 

Louise Erdrich – Life will break you  

MaMuse – We Shall Be Known 

Joy Harjo – This is my Heart 

Ranier Maria Rilke – Go to the Limits of your Longing

 

Larry Robinson:

Rumi – The Old Rule

Christopher Fry – A Sleep of Prisoners

Jack Gilbert – A Brief For The Defense

Kabir – Slave of Intensity

W. B. Yeats – Song of Wandering Aengus

John O’Donohue – Beannacht

Rumi – O Pilgrim

 

Rebecca Evert:

e e Cummings – I Thank You God

Ute Indian prayer – Earth teach me

Sharon Olds –Topography 

Fran Claggett-Holland – Breath after Breath 

 

Barry Spector:

Maya Angelou: When Great Trees Fall

Raphael J. Gonzalez: Advice for the Fall Equinox

Linda Hogan: Walking By Stolen Creek

Neruda: Memoirs

Neruda: The Horses

Gary Snyder: Old Woman Nature

Saadi – This World is not a Courtroom

Gregory Orr: Were We Invited?