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A - Abandoned houses - The absence of metaphor - Absolute faith - According to His will - Adapting the words of Shunryu Suzuki - The adventure of being human - Afraid of the dark - Afterlife - After the last ki jai - Ageless and momentary - All or nothing - All your worldly cares - An amazing tale - An angel-less God - The ancient Chandler - An anchored pole - The ancient discrepancy - An obscure remembrance - Anomaly - Another empty cloak - Another name for God - Another poem - The answer - The antonym of compare - An arrow in my chest - The ancient discrepancy - And the Word was God - Another brief kiss - Apparently, fearless - Apple-cheeked son - Appomattox - Approach God - Archery practice - Ashes and dust - The ashram's ox - Assortment of blessings - The atelier's door - Attempted saints - The attempt to do both - At the apex -The auspices of Meher -The author of chaos - Available for grace - Awaiting - The Awakener - B - A babe in the woods - Baby powder - Baby steps - Back to the Garden - Baltic Avenue - Bamboo and rope - Barakoti - Bark and bite - The bars of this poetry - Beads on one string - The beast in the parlor - Beautiful birds - A beautiful confusion - The beauty and necessity - Become the sought - A bee in my bonnet - Before the angels - The beginning of surrender - The beginning of the end - Be God (New Year's Day) - Being led home - The bell is struck - Benefit of the doubt - Best keep mum - The best of intentions - Betting on prayer - Between the pales - Beyond faith - The Big Picture - Birds made of sky - The blade of remembrance - The blessedness - Blithe aplomb - The blood and the body of Christ - Blood with blood - Blue ribbons - Boat the oars - A Bob Brown melody - A bodhisattva effect - Body language - Bold experiments - The book of the heart - Borrowed clay - The bosom of Abraham - Bottleneck - Bowing down - Brash parrot - Bread and wine - The breaking of the tape - A brief coupling - A brief, shared shelter - A brighter lantern - Bright pebbles - Brimful of wine - Brimful quiet - The bruising rose - Buddhism in a nutshell - Bulldog tenacious - Bullock cart - The burden of love - The burning grounds - The business of love - Butcher's block - By blood and flesh - By candlelight - C - Cabbage leaves - The cabin in the woods - Call me down - Captured - Castle in the air - The certitude of my ignorance - A chain of islands - Chains of gratitude - Chanji - Child of God - A child of Meher - The chime - Chipping away - The chitchat you make - Chortle - Chronic homesickness - Cigar box treasures - The cleft of flesh - Climb down - Climb through the ropes - Clouds of glory - Collected poems - Companionship - Compassionate Father - Content with God - Confine yourself - Connect the dots - The cross is always waiting - Crossroads - The cross within my chest - Cross yourself - Croupiers - Crowded house - Crushed - Crustaceans - The crust of armor - The crux of embrace - Cul-de-sac - Cultivate a thirst - The cup - The cup of Your heart - D - Darkness gathers - The dark-red goblet - Darshan moment - Deathbed - The death of desire - The death of self - Death poem - Death row confessions - The deep, deep hammer - The deeper you plunge - The delicate efficacy - Dependency - Desultory search - A desert silence - Desert traveler - Desire nothing - Devoted inquiry - The dhuni - Diaphaneity - Digging our own graves - Dio Chrysostum - Dipped in the baptistery - Disassociation - Disembarkation - Distant homeland - Divest yourself - A divine opportunity - The divinity of Meher - Do not bother - Don't circle me - The dorje of time - The down payment - Down to earth - The dreamed-up polarity - Dreaming the dream - Dream coat - Dream House - Drink this poem - A drop of God's oil - The drunken man - Due inheritance - Duhkka - Dust-speck existence - Dust to dust - E - Early post-advent - The edges of your being - An effortless endeavor - Elder beauty - Elegy - Elephant shapes - Ellora - Eloquent tears - An emphatic breach - The emptiness of the dream - Emptiness poised - Empty bowl - Empty threats and promises - The End of Days - Endless highway - Enter the desert - Ephemera - Eruch's kindness - The essence of a dewberry - Estranged hearts - Eternal sweetness - Eternal Wanderer - The eternity within - Even to ask - Even your bones - The evergreen shore - Every Adam - Every lover's wont - Every paramount moment - The everywhere ocean - The evidence of solitude - The evidentiary truth - The excursion - The exemplars - The existence of Existence - The exploration of love - Extraordinary forms - Eyes divine - F - Face the music - The faintest of hopes - The faith-ending proof - Faith in love - Faith is a wooden sword - Famous blue overcoat - Famous last words - Fanciful figures - The farthest skies - Felling the yew - The fellow with the umbrella - A few lucid moments - '54 DeSoto - Fig leaf - Finding grace - The fire and the rose - First comes the kiss - The first crease - The fisher of men - Fishes and loaves - Fish out of water - Five - The flame of a torch - Flatfoot - Floating - Fly to Him - Fooled by God - Forefinger and thumb - Foreign shore - Foreign to the heart - For Him also - A fork in the road - The formless pitch - A fortress - Free radical - The fruition of His mercy - Fruitless tangents - The fruit sublime - Full flower - Furrow the field - A further roughening - G - The garbs of sainthood - The garden long abandoned - The gardens of the Christ - Garden-variety meditation - Garment of leaves -The gathering gloom - Gather your people - The gazelle - Gazing at the moonrise - Gentle press - Get lost - Ghost of a chance - Gift from God - The giver-away - Giving myself up for dead - The glue of faith - God, by definition - God-given - A God-glimpse - God happens - God in disguise - God in heaven - God instead - The Godman's ear - God's blood - God's brush - God's doing - God's door - God's endless existence - God-sent - God's face - God's game - God's fabled Illusion - God's gift - God's long shadow - God's throat and ear - God's vision - God the Beloved - God was born - A gold coin - The gong at Meherazad - Goodbye cruel world - Good clean fun - The good life - Good news - The good thief - Goodwill - A gospel fundamental - Grace and whim - Grace intruded - A grass hut - Graveyard gates - The great assumption - The great disrobing - The great keys - The Great I am - The Great Ignorer -The Great Given - The great pretender -The green essence - Green pastures - The green promise - The gum of zikr - H - Hair shirt - Half house - Haunt the shore - Headed south - Head over heels - Heaven bound - The heart department - The heart I once thought mine - Heart of mine - The heart of wisdom - The heart's ears - The heart's sovereignty - The heart's tender - Heavy equipment - He dwelt in love - Heed Hafiz - Helter-skelter - Hemlock wine - Here is the crush - Here nor there - A hint of why - His child - His dancing body - His majesty - His One perfect response - His perfect humanity - His scattered brood -His silence - His yoke is easy - Hitch a ride - A holy partaking - Holy umbrage - Homeland -Honey and venom - Honeymoon - Hope - A hopeless tangle - Hope, sturdy beast - Hopping a train - Horseflies - Horse-hoofed knowledge - A host of angels - A house for starlings - House of mirrors - The human chapters - Human clot - The human source -Humble departure - Humble men - Humility - The hunger- I - I am not myself - I came across Christ - I can never go back - I can't begin to tell you - I choose angels - The idol - If life is a prayer - The illusion of forward momentum - The illusion of autonomy - The illusion of God's absence - The illusion of two - I love love best - Imaginary wristwatch - Imampur - Immeasurable love - Impartiality - The impedimenta of desire - The impudence of inquiry - In a marvelous way - In a motel lobby - Inarticulate Truth - Incomparable perfection - Inconsequential - The inconvenience of words - Indescribable - In God we trust - Inhabit your tomb - In hushed gratitude - Ink-stained fingers - In lieu of silence - The inner voice - In the air - In the clenches - In the drink - In the chilling dusk - In the hothouse - In the parlor - In the room tonight - In the silent holy void - In the thick - In transition - In the wake of Your silence - Invisible fingers - Invisible hands - I pray for You - It's all medicine - It's your bird - It takes a death - It was love - I've taken down the axe - J - Jal's conviction - Jasmine and roses - Jesus for adults - Jesus in disguise - A jewel in the safe - Jiminy Cricket - Join the club - Join the tended sparrows - Journey of constant failures - Journeyman's cloak - The journey that never was - Joy in the pain - The joy of breath - Just another route - Just God - Just shining - K - Keeping watch - Keep sharp the axe - Keep watch - The key - Kindness - The king's hand - A kiss - The kiss of the Prince - Kneel and marvel - Knowing Him not - Know it all - Knowledge Itself - Knowledge of the heart - L - The land of Nod - Last ditch effort - The last excursion - The last resort - Leading with my chin - The less you milk the dream - Letting go the wheel - Lies to myself - Lifeblood - A life edgeways - A life of pretense - A life of whim - Life's accumulations - Light and lofty - Lighting a candle - The light of You - Like love - Like the angels - Lips You have kissed - A living lie - The living precepts - Lofty and forlorn - The lonely truth - The long remainder - The long road home - The long way home - Look homeward - Loophole - Loose change - Loose talk - The lost Book - The lost language - Lost paradise - Lost trains - Love and dust - Love comes first - Love everything - Love for God - Love interest - Love is a lion - Love Itself - Lovely winged words - Love must love - The love of which He spoke - Love-pool - Love's mantle - Love's vernacular - Love tokens - Love to love - The lowdown - Lukewarm water - M - Made of ocean - The madman of Chu - Make good - Making a living - Making change -The malady of loneliness - A Man among men - Man of God - The Mapmaker - The matter of Love - The meeting of needs - Meherabad Hill - Meher's silence - The mercy of God - The mercy of His court - The merest shadow - Met by Your majesty - Mighty opus - The milkman - Mime and pantomime - Monk's garden - Moondust - A moon translucent - The most practical way - Motionless and shallow - Move your soul - Moving through the fair - A mutual sobriety - My baffled heart - My candled paper lantern - My enchantment - My entirety - My freshly hewn grave - My God-essence - My green heart - My heart - My heart is slain - My heart's beatings - My heart's dust - My human remains - My old friend fear - My only treasure - My prayer-cupped hands - My Revealer - Myself - My self awakening - My shop is not yet sold - My silent partner - My sons - The Mystery of mysteries - The mystery of the Giver - My story - My trembling fingers - My worn out boots - N - Naked to ourselves - The nameless ones - The narrow path -The nature of stars - Near and ever - Needlefish - Nettle tea - Never drenched - A new banner - A new life - New Meherazad - The next rising phenomenon - Next to nothing - A niche in the stream - A nod and a wink - No leave-takings - Nom-de-plume - Nonexistence - Nonetheless - No real choice at all - No room for why - The nothing and the everything - Nothing doing - Nothing need be said - Nothing of substance - Not one crumb - Not one thing - Not quite a poem - Not this - Now or later - Numerous explanations - O - An ocean away - Oceanic silence - The Ocean mighty - Ocean shell - O faith of mine - Of birdsong caliber - Of life eternal - Of path and pyre - Of resolution and resurrection - Of stars and stones - Of Thy peace - Old lover - On being a human being - On Center - Once the spigot runs dry - One brushstroke - The One calling you - One day to blur - The one gauge - One grave truth - One gulp - One minus one - Oneness lost - One performance only - One true faith - The one true flame - The One we already are - The One Who never leaves - On love's behalf - The only answer - Only for love - The only game in town - Only God - Only love - The only one in the room - The only say-so - Only the breath - Only the witness - The only Way - On parting - On shoe shining - On the road to non-existence - The opposite of love - Orb of the heart - Orange robe - The original dust - Original face - Original grain - The original silence - Origin and remedy - O shining city - O sweet Grace - Otherwise engaged - Ottoman - Our cloven hearts - Our friendship - Our only hope - Our rendezvous with destiny - Our shielding cloaks - Our toddling faith - Out of earshot - Outrageous love - Outside the dream - Over the jasper walls - O wayfarer - P - A pale foretelling - The paling of my enclosure - Paper dolls - The path - The path of your soul - The path to Glory - The path to heaven - Pay attention - Peeking over the edge - The perfect aspect - The perfect me - Perfect servitude - The perilous shallows - Persistent honesty - Personal Lord - Pilamai's chair - Pilgrimage awaits - Piscean - The pitch and spell - Pitched bottles - The platypus - Play dead - The play of love - The plundering of the apple tree - Poem of apology - A poor man's truth - Portable refuge - Portrait - The poseur - Poultice - The power of Love - The powers that be - The prayer - Prayer from a closet - Prayers - The prayer of Immensity - The prayer of roses - Precarious - Precious cargo - The preliminary beauty - The presence of His absence - Pretend game - Private stock - The probe for truth - The process of drowning - The promised skies - The promise of me - Promise and compromise - Puja and arti - Pull off the road - Pumpkin stone - Puzzle face - Q - The quandary of life itself - A question of Love - The queue of souls - Qutub - Quirt and spurs - R - The rags of sham - Rainy day - Random descent - The rasp of Your bow - Rawhide and bones - Reading the label - The Real Word - The remote promise - This realm of zero - Reason for love - Red herrings and wild geese - A regarding of the cup - Regarding the mystery - A relationship of One - A reluctant tongue - Remnants of the Way - Return to Canaan - The rhabdomancer's art - The ring of truth - The river's flux - Ropes and rules - Room for God - The root of courage - Rose dust - Rose from the ruins - The rose thorny lane - Rough theory - Rough and tumble - The royal treasure - The ruddy marrow - Ruminations on Rumi - Rumi's field -The rumor of love - A rumor of Union - S - Salt flat - Salt grain - The salt of Your Ocean - Salvage and Salvation - Save God - Savored love - A scarlet bird - The scent of a peach - A sea of grace - Seclusion Hill - The secret - Self-forgetting - Shadow play - A shaking up - Shallow grave - The shard of a mirror - A shared life - The shelter - Shoebox - A short, private prayer - Signpost -The silence of Meher - The silence of which You spoke - The silence of Your wine - The silent Christ - The silent parlance - Simple praise - Singular majesty - Six foot grave - Sky blue coat - Slicing through - Sixty-nine years - Slow of speech - The small self passing - Small stones - A smidgen of God - Soft spot - Soft words - The solace of eternity - The sole barrier - The sole discordance - The Sole Doer -The sole heir - Solitaire - Some enchanted evening - Somehow by love - Something better besides - Somnambulist - The song of Meher - Soon left to the page - Soon to blur - The Source of grace - Speaking of God - Spinning tales - Spoken for - A spot of fiction - Sprawl and tangle - Stage struck - Stained by hope - Stand aside - A standing down - Stick horse - Still you dance - The stirrings of the heart - Stone bearer - The stone pillow - Straw boss - Stray dog - Streets without love - A stretch of silence - Such a game as this - Such a love -Such dark solace - The sum of existence - The sum of my parts - Sum total - Sunlit roses - Sunset ... and death - A superior baptism - Suspect death - Suspects at large - A suspect scarlet - Sweet cajoling - Sweetheart deal - Sweet on the tongue - Sweet solace - Swiss army knife - The symphony of Existence - Synonymous with mercy - T - Tag along - Take a hike - Taken with You - Take up the cross - A taking away - A taste for crow - These earthen fingers - A tender child - The tending of the fire - The terrible truth - Terribly far - That bright red apple - That clear still center - That nonexistent shore - That old charlatan - That old zen saw - That promised quenched peace - That sort of love - That stone, domed room - They also serve - Things I do not know - Things that are real - Think of Noah - Thin-skinned heart - This dewy morning - This empty cup - This handful of words - This Hill - This illusory fleck - This inherent buoyancy - This lucidity - This marvelous deception - This maverick path - This odd pitch of clay - This old house - This old vase - This rare mingling - This rare sort of love - This time around - A thorough soaking - Those human years - A thoughtless prayer - The thread of time - Thread the needle - Three garlands - Through the moves - A thunderous commitment - Tickle and flinch - The ties that bind - 'Til spring - Tilting the scales - A tinge of truth - Tinsmith - To be an instrument - To bend my knees - To cull and glean - Toddler - To dwell in eternity - To have not the heart - To love - To love others - The tomb I haunt - The tomb of the now - A tongueless bell - Too dear a price - Too deep for words - Too much like death - To question a faith - A torch for You - To satisfy our thirst - To this day - To wait and watch - Toward a graveyard silence - Toward a rendezvous - To Whom it may concern - To Whom I write - Trapeze - Traveling incognito - Treasured postcards - The trick - A trick of light - True-blue friend - True disciple - True grit - The truth all along - Truth be told - The truth of illusion - The Truth of Meher - The truth of myself - The truth of the mirror - Try to try - Tumble and gyre - Turned on the same lathe - The turn of a knob - A twist in the plot - A two-cent remark - U - The ultimate cosmic kiss - An uncut stone - Uncut wood - Under their trilling - Under the straw - Under the tent flap - Unencumbered of woe - The unfolding answer - Unhand the world - Unhook your soul - Unimaginable grace -Union of a sort - The unlit wick - An unnumbered lifetime - The unraveling of an elephant - Unspent coins - Untapped reservoir -Until love dawns - Until purity regains its footing - Until Union - Upon the darkling plain - Up the pike - Useless braying - Utility pole - Utter stillness - V - Vainglory - The valley of the shadow - Various apples - Verisimilitude - Very much in play - A vital forfeiture - The voyage of the leaky craft - W - The wages of sin - Waiting in the wings - Walking shoes - The walk of faith -Walk of life - Wallflower peace - The water of Jesus - Water strider - The way of God known as me - We mistake ourselves - What daredevils learn - Whatever truth or ruse - What gives? - What God is not - What is given - What will happen - When hearts fail - When the grace comes - When the human heart stops - When you look for God - Where do I go? - Where is the gamble? - Where my heart used to be - Where myself ends - Where the day will take us - The whetstone - Whimsy - Whitewashed trunks - Who I am not - Who He said He was - Who in the world I am - Wild goose - Wild tales - Window of time - Wine - A wine-soaked heart - Without expression - Wondrous to consider - Wordplay - Words - A Word sufficient - The word true - The work that must be done - The world's damaan - The world turned off - Wrens and sparrows - Wring and pare - Wu wei - Y - A yellow wood - Yesterday's tea - Yeswallas - Yonder - You are here - You fill my quiver - You loved me first - You never let go - You Who Are - Your big toe - Your brightly lit windows - Your brushstrokes - Your damaan - Your dharmashala - Your good graces - Your handiwork - Your illusory grudges - Your kindly indulgence - Your only chance - Your side of the river - Your silence is the sound - Your silent veracity - Your timid heart - Your tomblike silence - Your welcome mat - Your wine has the power - You yourself - Z - Zero - Zikr

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