by Robin Bloor | Oct 5, 2023 | Readings, The Lost Herald
A World on Fire The world is on fire!And are you laughing?You are deep in the dark.Will you not ask for light? For behold your body—A painted puppet, a toy,Jointed and sick and full of falseimaginings,A shadow that shifts and fades. How frail it is!Frail and...
by Robin Bloor | Sep 1, 2023 | Readings, The Lost Herald
Ibn Arabi (an artist’s impression) The Ocean of Love The Ocean of Love is vast and deep, It has no shore, no bottom, no end. The waves of love crash against the shore of the heart, And the soul is swept away in a torrent of passion. The Ocean of Love is filled...
by Robin Bloor | Aug 3, 2023 | Readings, The Lost Herald
A Meditating Statue The Tao Te Ching Chapter 39 The highest good is like water,Which benefits all thingsAnd does not compete with them.It stays in the lowly placesThat all men disdain.Therefore it is near to the Tao. The Tao is like a well:It is always there,But it is...
by Robin Bloor | Jun 26, 2023 | Readings, The Lost Herald
The Inner Shrine I Corinthians 13 In the text below we have substituted the word “charity” with the word “love” – meaning love in the sense of “agape.” Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not Love, I...
by Robin Bloor | May 27, 2023 | Readings, The Lost Herald
Two Wolves The Inner Battle In the twilight of a cool American evening, beneath the watchful gaze of the crescent moon, an old Cherokee chief named Akecheta sits near the crackling fire, embers dancing upward into the starry sky. His grandson, Takoda, a growing boy...
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...