A word about the poetry following this page-

In 1992, I was seeking some new dimension to the work I was doing. 

I had been a therapist for a good while by then, I had been through some amazing things in life, and I had interest in finding what might make the work I was doing richer for me and for my clients. 



I had read books by Robert Bly and Marion Woodman and seen both of them in various workshops they did separately. At one of those workshops, there was an invitation to something they were working on jointly.  together.

The idea was that the workshop met for a week and explored a fairy tale with the goal of learning as much as possible from and about the tale and the meanings the story held for life.

This sounded good to me so for the next few years I went to as many of the weeks as I could.

Poetry was woven into the fabric of each of these weeks- As they told the story, Marion would read T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, and others; Robert would read his poems and other poems which spoke to him, which captured his imagination. It was then that I first heard Rumi, Kabir, and Hafez.

This is how that happened.



Saturday night of the first workshop I attended with them, the evening's entertainment was a poetry concert.

There, on stage, along with Marion and Robert, a tabla player and a sitar player, was a burly guy with a shaggy beard and a deep southern accent.

He was Coleman Barks and he read the translations he had done of Rumi in a way that was stunning- He took such pleasure in the poems and he conveyed that pleasure to all of us in the audience.


It was at that point that I began reading as much as I could of these poems and that the poems began to influence, directly and indirectly, the work I do.



I share some of them with you in hopes that you too will be touched and moved by them.


See what you think.....