by Robin Bloor | Apr 27, 2023 | Readings, The Lost Herald
Children, a photograph of a kind Kindness Before you know what kindness really isyou must lose things,feel the future dissolve in a momentlike salt in a weakened broth.What you held in your hand,what you counted and carefully saved,all this must go so...
by Robin Bloor | Mar 23, 2023 | Readings, The Lost Herald
An Alpine Guest House The Guest House Being human you are as a guest house.Every morning a new arrival. A joy or depression or a meanness,or some momentary awareness comesas an unexpected visitor. Welcome them all and entertain them!Even if they are a gang of...
by Robin Bloor | Feb 27, 2023 | Readings, The Lost Herald
A Damascus Sword-maker It was not purity but impuritythat lent strength to these swords,ingots of iron with carbontraced in tungsten and vanadium. Folds upon folds ran through each blade,rivers of darkness and lightshimmering like moonbeams on water. Stronger and...
by Robin Bloor | Jan 28, 2023 | Readings, The Lost Herald
The Self in Hiding The Self is weakened by asking. O thou who hast gathered taxes from lions,Thy need hath caused thee to become a fox in disposition.Thy maladies are the result of indigence:This disease is the source of thy pain.It is robbing thine high thoughts of...
by Robin Bloor | Dec 27, 2022 | Readings, The Lost Herald
Like This, Like This. Like This If anyone asks you how the perfect satisfactionof all our sexual wanting will look,lift your face and say,“Like this.” When someone mentions the gracefulness of the night sky,climb up on the roofand dance and say,“Like this.” If anyone...
by Robin Bloor | Nov 27, 2022 | Readings, The Lost Herald
The Laughing Pomegranate When you go to buy a pomegranateChoose the one that’s laughing, the one with the split rind,For its laughter reveals the seeds within. Blessed is the pomegranate’s laughter.lt gives voice to the heart inside, just asThe cracked shell of the...