The Heart's Curtain: Poems

By Madeleine Onraet

In The Heart's Curtain, Madeleine Onraet releases poems emerging from years of meditation and inquiry into the nature of suffering. Her insights arise from looking deeply into moments of everyday life. In her search to understand who we truly are, Madeleine finds a path that brings peace, presence and love. Every moment is an invitation

• Language: English
• Publisher: Insight Poetry
• Release date: Jun 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9780645347432

Madeleine Onraet

Madeleine Onraet writes poetry that focuses on the spiritual nature of existence, family life and the natural world. She has worked as a print journalist and hospital chaplain.

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First published in 2022 by Insight Poetry

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Excerpt from poem by Rumi translated by Hamid Homayouni

Cover design by Jelena Mirkovic

ISBN (paperback) 978-0-6453474-2-5

ISBN (ebook) 978-0-6453474-3-2

For Jean and Anne

Your pains are messengers

Listen to them.

- Rumi

Contents

Introduction

The Heart’s Curtain

Path

Question

Open

Explorer

Remember

Don’t go

Gobble

Bite

Apprentice

Quest

Sky fields

Shadows

The heart’s curtain

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