Poetry, prose and other works

JFK airport – 1969

Madhuri Z K Akin is a memoirist, poet, artist, meditator, Human Design practitioner, Intuitive, and retired healer, who lives in the beautiful rocky Pennines of Northern England.

She is the author of nine books, including the just-out Flying Lady with Cat. Her many teenage and Osho-time diaries, dream diaries, artworks, and artefacts have been bought by the history department of Hamilton College, New York. She is the poetry editor for Osho News, and a frequent contributor to that magazine.

A timeline of Madhuri’s past works, some from published books and some unseen until now, will be published here.

How it all began...

April, 1966

I Will Live in a Small Hovel

I will live in a small hovel In the midst of life And be a gypsy/mystic/poet constantly. I will always wear a smock and sandals My braided hair swinging Around my knees Forever kept shining b...
April, 1966
June, 1966

The Two Princesses

Once upon a time, in a faraway land, in a middling-poor town, in the middle of a vast desert, two little Princesses were born, not entirely by mistake, into a very poor family. In fact, their ...
June, 1966
March, 1968

Back South

We are trees together sleeping, exhaling shadows felled into cupped silence; our fluting has impassioned cows by moonlight. Banana slugs have lusted for our fingers, we have dug green stone f...
March, 1968
June, 1968

Sentences in the Desert

To Glen I. Out into the desert into tall night the family comes walking sad Okies, books’ images filming over their skins Invisible amoebas of words with slipping colors Not here, the family no bro...
June, 1968
January, 1969

Astoria

Astoria on the Northern brow of Oregon those pioneer names The Columbia, the Willamette still pulse out to sea The sun is but a moment older eyes closed only slightly more to all the rags and rages...
January, 1969
June, 1969

The Crows

(a block from my childhood house ran the tracks; a nut-canning factory sat beside them, with a groundcover of crushed nutshells. I used to dream the trains got off the tracks and ran through the s...
June, 1969
June, 1969

This year is different

This year is different from all other years. The flowers I sew together seem ready to slip suddenly into a deep green pool the palm of my hand. Sidewalk cracks widen when I approach like opening ey...
June, 1969
January, 1970

Cleaning Richard’s House

Night before last was one of the most incredible good earth things – Richard invited us over for dinner. We got there, bathed and shiny, long dresses, on our bicycles. I had made coconut – avoca...
January, 1970
November, 1970

Dingy-Squaat

The short-bladed knife slices pirate bread Candles light cheeks round above the fur like eggs in straw. We live in a boat’s duck-belly, six of us frying onions slicing bread by candlelight Oats fal...
November, 1970
December, 1970

Barcelona

dark pension hall you approach white and nervous in dark drug alert she killed you the mother stabbed that snake-slim tree white flesh home i have stroked in infinite undoing now you see her in doo...
December, 1970
June, 1974
Impassioned Cows By Moonlight published

Impassioned Cows By Moonlight published

This book was published in 1974 by Red Dot Press, a division of Hanging Loose magazine in New York. I was invited to submit the manuscript for the first book-publishing venture of this long-running...
June, 1974