Have better life with TEA: what tea time can do for you
One cannot rush when tea is involved. A frantic pick me up tea time, is simply against the nature of the leafy beverage. Tea can become a tool assisting with […]
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LETTING JOY IN
This poem was subconsciously in creation phase of my mind for years, perhaps decades. Then, one winter morning as the sunlight entered my Mediterranean bedroom, I gasped and grasped a […]
Books: the mirror of your mind and soul before and now
What are you reading now and what books attracted you, literally, lured your heart like the mythic sirens over the past months? Analysing the books we have read recently, unless […]
Poems in Conversation: Hope and Supernatural Spirit
Supernatural Spirit Striding up the Nietzche path to Eze, […]
Attention disrupted: grow resilience in the age of distractions
Attention can feel surprisingly spacious, almost boundless. It can be focused but also divided (multi-tasking, stress), and certainly it can be disrupted by various causes. Yet, ironically narrowing your focus […]
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 […]
Corrupted purity: Chinese poetic mastery meets contemporary reality
My short poem about corrupted 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 […]
THE ANT'S MIND IS MINE
My mind flies like a leaf of paper unglued, unstitched, yet unfree in the wind’s arms Like an ant always searching for directions — sensing, feeling, and changing […]
Kumano Kodo: finding the ethereal spirit in the Japanese forest
Animist, buddhist and shintoist confluence of peaceful coexistence is awakened on the Kii peninsula of Japan. For more than a millennium, ancient pilgrimage routes have, like ropes of hope, connected […]
Synchronicity in my poetry through feathers lightness
Poetry is like a crystal, seemingly timeless within our too short human lifespan, yet constantly changing. While the mineral stone transforms, a poem transforms its meaning depending on whom and […]