An estimated 100 million songs have been written, sung and released.
The same spiritual inquiry applies to all of them. Continue reading
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An estimated 100 million songs have been written, sung and released.
The same spiritual inquiry applies to all of them. Continue reading
Percy Shelly, the early 19th century English poet, engaged in the sharpest of polemics in his anti-war poem. He showed the corruption, coldness and lust for war of the ruling elite.
Here is a 10 line extract from the 72 line poem. Continue reading
Ozymandias by Percy Shelly.
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Continue reading
These letters of the celebrated Austrian poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1825 – 1926), to a 19 year-old military student, named Franz Kappus encouraged the young man to pursue inner inqury, art, solitude and passion as a vehicle for inner transformation. Continue reading
In his own dark period, Lord Byron, the adventurous English romantic poet, wrote Darkness about the violence of men, war and the end of the world.
Byron left England, travelled to Switzerland where he wrote the poem in 1818 with its despairing undertones about the state of humanity. He spent a nomadic and flamboyant life in continental Europe, especially in Mediterranean countries. He expressed his social/political concerns. He had a range of lovers both on the continent and in Britain. Continue reading