“Even while living in the world of waves, we touch the water, knowing that a wave is nothing but water.” - Thich Nhat Hanh

NEW! In these mp3 sound files, you can hear David Flanagan reading his poetry:

My Song.mp3 Is This Real.mp3 Fugitive Thoughts.mp3

Click here if you'd like to read David's essay, "On Being a (Non-) Poet"

Here’s a larger selection of poems by David Flanagan.
Click on the links below to go to the texts of individual poems:

My Song

Bell Ringing in the Empty Sky

The Kayak and the Train

The Kayak and the Airplane

The World Changed

Vantage

Bardo

A Snow Goose

Lights

Twilight after Rain

On the Bank of the Pond

Fugitive Thoughts

Sunbeams

Fire and Ice

The Jewel in the Lotus

Pilgrimage

The Secret

Hidden Passages

Tangled

Expecting to Cry

Epitaph

A Valediction for My Father on the Occasion of His Dementia

Where did they go?

The Silent Treatment

Haiku

Time's Riddle

Narrative

Is This Real?

Sleepers, Awaken

So Long Lives This

Automatic Writing

Written in Invisible Ink

This Is Not a Poem

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