The Way Of The Poet - John Shane - Poetry, Music, Meditation

SONG OF THE STANDING STONES (Wake The Dead) by John Shane, and the story of integrating with local guardians at Brent Tor, a sacred site on Dartmoor in the UK with Chogyal Namkhai Norbu Norbu in 1981

THERE ARE TRUTHS YOU CAN DISCOVER IN THE GUTTER - John Shane - written while traveling the world with Chogyal Namkhai Norbu & noting the pile of dirty shoes outside every meditation hall or temple

‘PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE - The Power of Love’ - John Shane - notes on a project that enquires into the nature of conscience & consciousness - 2 pieces from a work in progress, a drama in verse/song

MY HEART IS ALL AT SEA ONCE MORE (The Unexpected Victory Of Poetry) - John Shane + Where’s Winston’s fiery oratory in defence of our liberties today? How his love of language inspired my own as a boy

‘BODIES ARE FAILING THINGS…ALWAYS OVERCOME BY TIME’ (For Mala Young: a Dharma Sister Dying Of Cancer) Revisiting, at the age of 78, a poem I wrote in 1980 for the fatally ill mother of two young sons

“YOUR FRIENDS WILL TELL YOU WHAT THEY THINK YOU WANT TO HEAR ABOUT YOURSELF, BUT YOUR ENEMIES WILL SHOW YOU HOW YOU REALLY ARE!” What I saw HH DALAI LAMA say the 1st time I had a REAL enemy in my life

PUMPKIN MOON IN MASSACHUSETTS - John Shane - A love poem addressed to my then unborn daughter…‘Who are you, intimate, yet unseen stranger?’…A companion poem to ‘Earth Mother (For The Midwife)’

FASCISM ARRIVES AS YOUR FRIEND - MICHAEL ROSEN’S POEM 1st published May 2014

EARTH MOTHER (For The Midwife) - John Shane - click here to listen to a poem celebrating the mystery of birth

SONG OF THE MONSTROUS GRID - John Shane - Part of an unpublished long-form spoken word drama THE WINGED DRUM - Why do kids enjoy so much this poem about the ending of human life on the Earth..?

THIS FURNACE (Note To An Old Photograph In A Family Album) JOHN SHANE. I published this grieving poem on Holocaust Memorial Day in witness to the way the shadow of the holocaust falls across us all

POETRY CAN SPEAK DECISIVELY TO POWER: A talk by Andrew Motion UK Poet Laureate - AND - THE VOICE OF THE THUNDER - by John Shane a poster poem from 1980 - PLUS - CHIEF SEATTLE'S inspiring 1854 speech