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Yogananda's When I Am Only a Dream

Paramahansa Yogananda's "When I Am Only a Dream" offers all devoted disciples the reassurance and comfort that the guru is always guiding and guarding them. more...

Yogananda's The Toiler's Lay

The speaker in "The Toiler's Lay"expresses a sentiment that is universally common to humanity laboring in this material world to keep body and soul together. more...

Yogananda's Nature's Nature

Guruji's "Nature's Nature" is one of those poems that portrays the bliss of samadhi so tangibly that the devotee cannot help but pine for attainment of that state. more...

McKay's Spring in New Hampshire

McKay offers a refreshing and delightful glimpse at the feeling one experiences when the grass turns green again, and the sky is too blue not to notice with enthrallment. more...

Yogananda's The Royal Way

Many of Yoganandaji's poems offer introductory glimpses into the science of yoga, on which his teachings are based; "The Royal Way" dramatizes one such glimpse. more...

Okri's They Say

Ben Okri's "They Say" offers a technically brilliant drama that underscores the power of the soul in the face of devastating danger and impending death. more...

Yogananda's My Cosmic Mother's Face

At age eleven, Paramahansa Yogananda grieved the loss of his mother, but his spiritual nature impelled his search for and ultimate success in realizing his Divine Mother. more...

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Sarojini Naidu – Nightingale of India – Poems

By: Martin G. Wood

Many of Sarojini Naidu's poems are infused with political and social commentary; but, quite a few are simply musings on life; meditative and halcyonic. more...

Book Review – Seamus Heaney's Selected Poems

By: Ryan Werner

For a very select audience, this documentation of 21 years of Seamus Heaney's poetry career will be an enjoyable and cathartic journey through Ireland and its culture. more...

Poems of Kabir and Bible

By: Angelina Nachimuthu

In addition to being part of the Hindu Bhakti Movement and Islamic Sufi mysticism, Kabir's poems also share similar spiritual and moral themes with the Bible. more...

The Poetry of Protest in South Africa

By: Sarah Wild

Under Apartheid, many South African artists were banned under the oppressive regime. Mongane Wally Serote uses thinly-veiled metaphor to speak out in "For Don M - Banned" more...

The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse Reviewed

By: Steve Williams

The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse is a collection of poems by and about gay people, but has Stephen Coote put together a concise anthology or is this collection crass? more...

Indian Mystic Poet Kabir Das

By: Angelina Nachimuthu

The poetic works of Kabir Das transcend religions and reveal a universal spiritual consciousness in simple and easy to understand language. more...

Contemporary Irish Language Poetry

By: Sarah Scott

Even as the number of Irish Gaelic speakers in each Gaeltacht diminished, a group of Irish poets in Cork in the 1970s was beginning to write modern Irish language poetry. more...

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