by CooperMedia | Apr 23, 2015 | Poetry, Romantic
To Mercy Pity Peace and Love,All pray in their distress:And to these virtues of delightReturn their thankfulness. For Mercy Pity Peace and Love,Is God our father dear:And Mercy Pity Peace and Love,Is Man his child and care. For Mercy has a human heartPity, a human...
by CooperMedia | Jan 6, 2015 | Journalism, Philosophy
The remarkable insight into the simplicity and unnecessary complexity of human feeling and behaviour is brought out in this disarmingly uncomplicated analogy by the Vietnamese Buddhist Monk, Thích Nhât Hanh, a master of wisdom. “When you plant lettuce, if it does not...
by CooperMedia | Jan 2, 2015 | 20th century, Poetry
The unpurged images of day recede;The Emperor’s drunken soldiery are abed;Night resonance recedes, night walkers’ songAfter great cathedral gong;A starlit or a moonlit dome disdainsAll that man is,All mere complexities,The fury and the mire of human veins. Before me...
by CooperMedia | Dec 28, 2014 | Poetry, Romantic
Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time,Sylvan historian, who canst thus expressA flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shapeOf deities or mortals, or of both,In Tempe or the...
by CooperMedia | Dec 27, 2014 | Metaphysical,, Poetry
I wonder by my troth, what thou, and IDid, till we loved? were we not wean’d till then?But suck’d on countrey pleasures, childishly?Or snorted we in the seaven sleepers den?T’was so; But this, all pleasures fancies bee.If any beauty I did see,Which I desir’d and got,...