Mystical Poetry, Friday, July 15, 2005, 8 PM at Revelations

All cultures and all ages have created beautiful mystical poetry. Such poets as Tagore, Dante, Hafiz, Whitman, Dickinson, Kabir, Mirabai, Rumi, Jiménez, St Teresa of Avila, Lao Tzu, Paz have all contributed to the smorgasbord of world mystical poetry.

The Candlelight Reading Series is happy to present an evening of inspiring, uplifting, and often humorous poetry by Persian, Indian, Tibetan, Spanish, Italian, Mexican, British, French and American poets and saints, past and present, on Friday, July 15, 8 PM at Revelations.

Freddy Niagara Fonseca, the series' founder, has invited Sharalyn Harris, whose specialty as a performer is spiritual poetry, to read with him. Minimum $1 donation warmly appreciated.

PROGRAM

Rumi--Come Whoever You Are--Sharalyn

Hafiz--The Subject Tonight is Love--Sharalyn

Dante--The Love of God, Unutterable and Perfect--Freddy

Hafiz--A Root in Each Act and Creature--Sharalyn

Sanai--The Time Needed--Freddy

Tu Fu--Written on the Wall at Chang's Hermitage--Sharalyn

Juan Ramón Jiménez--Transparency, God, Transparency--Freddy

Lao Tzu--The Tao That Can Be Told--Sharalyn

John Clare--I Am!--Freddy

William Wordsworth--Composed Upon Westminster Bridge--Freddy

E.E. Cummings--i am a little church(no great cathedral)--Freddy

Rabia--Die Before You Die--Sharalyn

Sharalyn Harris--The Thousandth Death--Sharalyn

St Teresa of Avila--Laughter Came From Every Brick--Sharalyn

Tagore--Unending Love--Freddy

St Teresa of Avila--God Alone is Enough--Freddy

Freddy Niagara Fonseca--Arriving at the Top of Twin Peaks--Freddy

Lao Tzu--Thirty Spokes Share the Wheel’s Hub--Sharalyn

Sharalyn Harris--When My Body Dies--Sharalyn

Rilke--You Are the Future--Sharalyn

Rumi--On That Fatal Day When My Casket Rolls Along--Freddy

Rumi--Where Everything Is Music--Freddy

Mirabai--Is All This God Stuff Real?--Sharalyn

Kabir--See If They Wet Their Pants--Sharalyn

Hafiz--Tired of Speaking Sweetly--Sharalyn

Sylvia Plath--Black Rook in Rainy Weather--Freddy

Jorge Guillén--Intimate, Alien Night--Freddy

Walt Whitman--A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim--Freddy

MirabaiI--Remember How My Mother Would Hold Me--Sharalyn

Elizabeth--ReningerBirdBath--Sharalyn

Rumi--Names--Sharalyn

Rumi--The Day of Resurrection--Freddy

Rabia--Love--Freddy

Rolf Erickson--Mirror Lake--Freddy

Ping Hsin--The Commonplace Puddle--Freddy

St Teresa of Avila--Every Prophet’s Nam--Sharalyn

St Catherine of Siena--Hymns of the Earth--Sharalyn

Freddy Niagara Fonseca--Inner Vista--Freddy

St. Catherine of Siena--Smells of Good Food--Sharalyn

From Proverbs: 3:11—20--In Praise of Sophia--Sharalyn

Shams of Tabriz--Unfold Your Own Myth--Sharalyn

Octavio Paz--Happiness in Herat--Freddy

Octavio Paz--Between What I See and What I Say . . .--Freddy

Emily Dickinson--Our Lives Are Swiss--Freddy

St Teresa of Avila--Concepts, A Jar We Must Break--Sharalyn

Gunilla Norris--Entering Rest--Sharalyn

Nirmala--Why Fear This Moment--Sharalyn & Freddy

SKIPPED: ((((( John Donne--Death, Be Not Proud--Freddy

William Blake--And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time--Freddy

Gerard Manley Hopkins--God’s Grandeur--Sharalyn

Kabir--Inside this Clay Jug--Sharalyn

Anonymous--Fibres of Light--Freddy

Walt Whitman--It Is Time to Explain Myself--Freddy

Sharalyn Harris--Passing Vision--Sharalyn

St Teresa of Avila--The Servant of Unity--Sharalyn

Julia de Burgos--Nothing--Freddy

Juan Ramón Jiménez--I Am Not I--Freddy

Khalil Gibran--The Forerunner--Sharalyn

Rumi--The Tavern--Sharalyn

Louise Labé--We See Each Living Thing Finally Die--Freddy

Freddy Niagara Fonseca--On a Painting of the Fall of Man--Freddy ))))) SKIPPED

Hafiz--We Have Not Come Here to Take Prisoners--Sharalyn

Yeshe Tsogyel--This Self-sufficient Black Lady Has Shaken Things Up--Sharalyn

Ramón Lopez Velarde--In the Dying Afternoon--Freddy

Thomas Moore--The Meeting of the Waters--Freddy

Angelus Silesius--Friend, You Have Read Enough--Sharalyn

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The 2005 Readings

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