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

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SONG OF THE MONSTROUS GRID - John Shane - Part of an unpublished long-form spoken word drama THE WINGED DRUM - Why do kids enjoy so much this poem about the ending of human life on the Earth..?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

IN THE HORNED MAJESTY OF MY ANCIENT ANTLERED ANCESTRY - An Alternative Inauguration: Invoking Personal Power Rather Than Political Power Through Celebrating The Primal Shamanic Roots of Poetry

‘THE BAND PLAYS ON WHILE THE SHIP SINKS (Trust To The Water, Swim Towards The Light)’ Listen to a demo of John Shane singing his song accompanied by Richard Eagleton on electric guitar…

'THE SONG OF SELF-HEALING' - John Shane - READ, WATCH & LISTEN to a poem with music

Celebrating my late teacher CHOGYAL NAMKHAI NORBU's Birthday on the 8th December...

"SHANESPEARE IS HERE..!!" 'The Way of The Poet': ‘the habit and discipline of the notation of consciousness'; 'the practice of creative writing as a parallel process to the practice of meditation...'