Category: Mystical poetry

Blazing Orange Sky

Blazing Orange Sky — While breath says, “Look!” And fingers point The blazing orange sky darkens Instantly And sizzling ebony cracks On nascent chaos’ edge With dreadful, teasing wait–the ‘s’ of gasp As agitated air, long tormented, breaks Into the cracks, between the worlds, unseen before, Strike Thor’s electron seas of boiling rage Which seize from land And rip from sky To shock the gazing lower self … Read More Blazing Orange Sky

Haiku with Coffee: Broken Life

How apt! Is broken life Supported on your precious stone? Axes point eternally ©Stephen Tanham, 2016.

Coffee with Haiku Cake: Intense Swirling Steam

Intense Swirling Steam ⦿ Intense swirling steam Consumer of the last wood Glowing dots remain ⦿ ©Copyright Stephen Tanham, 2016.

Coffee with Haiku Cake: Perfect Fragile Beauty

Gaily, you tell me With perfect fragile beauty Fear not, self-dissolve ©Copyright Stephen Tanham, 2016.

When worlds collide

When worlds collide And you and I  Can only reach To touch the sky To find, alas The sky Has Gone away To star in yet Another day  Upon a stage so far away When worlds collide ©Copyright Stephen Tanham, 2016. 

What Curves Caress

What Curves Caress (In the style of Sufi poetry) What curves caress the distant sky when distance is not known? What shades of finest touch release the moment new which is not held? What depths of shade use shadow only to conceal the deeper joy? And in that joy, behind the shade, behind the touch, behind the sky, itself, will I not see you? … Read More What Curves Caress

Coffee and Haiku Cake – “High Summer’s Kiss”

“High Summer’s Kiss” ⦿ Floating, curling gold Of pristine fullness, forming Shining solstice kiss ⦿ Feel free to share or re-use, but kindly leave the notice intact to help the Silent Eye School. ©Copyright Stephen Tanham, 2016

Water and Night Bridges

Water and Night Bridges ⦿ Soft dark breezes Dance With opening light-ways Inciting introspection In warm summer darkness ⦿ Great running river Shining Throws lighted ghosts From glowing quicksilver To smiling mind ⦿ The distantly familiar Casts Phantoms Between the reaches Near and far ⦿ And not too far below Resounds The slap of tire on tarmac As roads of life endure… ⦿ ©Copyright … Read More Water and Night Bridges

Coffee and Haiku Cake – “Involution”

  “Involution” ⦿ Ageless grace, whose life Is fed from silver stars ablaze above Erupts to green life anew ⦿ Feel free to share or re-use, but kindly leave the notice intact to help the Silent Eye School. ©Copyright Stephen Tanham, 2016

Coffee and Haiku Cake – “Sly Dog”

“Sly Dog” ⦿ Hissing flow on stones Green soft swaying, fullsome trees Sly dog drinks it all ⦿

The Hushed Portal #writephoto

The Hushed Portal In response to Sue Vincent’s Thursday photo prompt – Still water… #writephoto ⦿ The dark wall at which you have been staring opens Breathing, You breathe for calm and hold its presence Knowing, That something truly new is happening Happening, As your skin happens, now tingling as a child’s might Your child, Not as given birth, but as born anew, from within … Read More The Hushed Portal #writephoto

Arty Tuesday – “Hiding in the Leaves”

  “Hiding in the Leaves” Third in a series of Tuesday Art pieces. Feel free to share or re-use, but kindly leave the notice intact to help the Silent Eye School.