Columbus Cheney

THIS weeping willow!

Why do you not plant a few

For the millions of children not yet born,

As well as for us?

Are they not non-existent, or cells asleep

Without mind?

Or do they come to earth, their birth

Rupturing the memory of previous being?

Answer!

The field of unexplored intuition is yours.

But in any case why not plant willows for them,

As well as for us?

Marie Bateson

You observe the carven hand

With the index finger pointing heavenward.

That is the direction, no doubt.

But how shall one follow it?

It is well to abstain from murder and lust,

To forgive, do good to others, worship God

Without graven images.

But these are external means after all

By which you chiefly do good to yourself.

The inner kernel is freedom,

It is light, purity —

I can no more,

Find the goal or lose it, according to your vision.