The Mystical Dance Mystical Poetry Inspirational Poetry Nature Poetry Spiritual Poetry

Mystical Poetry Spiritual Poetry Nature Poetry Inspirational Poetry

''The Mystical Dance'' is a book of one hundred and eight mystical,
nature, and spiritual poems inspired by Rumi, Tagore, Paramananda,
Hafiz, Thoreau and the great world spiritual teachings.

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The Improvisation


The sun returned this morning from its journey
Around this blue celestial sphere

Bathing the sky in a rosy glow

Clouds are floating lazily
like flamingo feathers
in a pool of golden light

Life is singing all around

The Divine improvisation
that never stops for applause

The tapestry of mountain stream
and skylark melody

Woven only to adorn
the Silence from which it springs

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Mountain Stream Laughing


The sound of a mountain stream
laughing in the canyon

Is the joyful song of yielding
and the free-flow of surrender

Spontaneous streaming of a water song
rings like liquid wind-chimes

Pouring freely from the well
of Nature’s singing heart

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Thimble Heart


There is no room in here

It’s so full of me
there is no room for You

Help me to pour myself out
through the window of this poem

So You
Who can pour the ocean into a thimble
May pour Your love into my heart

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Liquid Mirror


The surface of the water
became still

Like a liquid mirror

And I saw the reflection
of a wondrous world

A world I had never seen

A world I live in every day
but had never seen

Until the water became still


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Portal


Beauty comes to me at dawn
in a garment of golden light

bathing me in the music
of a new born day

breathing into my heart
with a lover’s touch

the melody of my soul

I am lost in amazement
I am drunk with awe

Who is not wonderstruck
with the arrival of the dawn

the magic and the mystery
unfolding once again

inviting us on a soul journey
to where we are already

always and forever
here and now

Who can sleep while Life
is bursting through the veil

its beauty opening a portal
to the secret meeting place

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Kiss The Starry Night


I throw open my arms to the sky
My whole being kisses the starry night

The lantern of the moon
hangs like a pearl

In the ink black stillness
of the night ocean above

Pale ashen moonlight
falls like silk on barren trees

All these words
Just language dancing with creation

Words and language are only candles
telling tales of the Sun

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Copyright 2011 Gordon Burnham