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Search Results for: death

Marie Howe
Poetry

Marie Howe – Death, the last visit

November 16, 2021November 15, 2021 Vanessa Able

Marie Howe’s different, highly sexual vision of transitioning out of life through a double-take on ‘la petite morte,’ the experience of orgasm as ‘a little death.’

Tagged Death, ecstasy, Fear, love, orgasm, relief, sexLeave a comment
Pema Chodron
Book Bits

How We Live Is How We Die: Pema Chödrön on Preparing for Death Here and Now

February 11, 2023February 11, 2023 Vanessa Able

Pema Chödrön on what the Tibetan approach to living and dying can teach us about liberation in the present moment.

Tagged bardos, Buddhism, Death, groundlessness, illusion, impermanence, liberation, loss, Tibetan buddhismLeave a comment
Eihei Dogen
Japanese Poetry, Poetry, The Masters, Uncategorized

Eihei Dogen – Death Poem

September 2, 2020September 2, 2020 Vanessa Able

A death poem was composed on one’s deathbed, with the aim of encapsulating the understanding of impermanence at that moment.

Tagged death poem, Dogen, impermanence, Zen1 Comment
Rebecca Elson
Poetry

Rebecca Elson – Antidotes to Fear of Death

December 16, 2020December 16, 2020 Vanessa Able

Rebecca Elson was an astronomer whose poetry expressed the wonder she felt for her own existence and for the universe she had spent her life studying.

Tagged Astronomer, awe, form, infinity, scale, Universe, whole, wonder5 Comments
Mary Oliver
Poetry

Mary Oliver – When Death Comes

August 5, 2020September 2, 2021 Vanessa Able

Mary Oliver’s poem When Death Comes is a meditation on death and an uplifting reminder of the joy and importance of a life well-lived.

Tagged 2020, bride, Courage, curiosity, Death, eternity, nature, readiness, time6 Comments
j-krishnamurti
Book Bits

Love and Death are Inseparable

September 25, 2020September 25, 2020 Vanessa Able

Jiddu Krishnamurti’s diaries reveal his ‘process’ and daily engagement with the the experience of his own consciousness and encounters with the unknown.

Tagged destruction, Diary, Journal, Meditation, observation, purity, reflectionLeave a comment
Kahlil Gibran
Poetry

Kahlil Gibran – Fear

January 19, 2023January 16, 2023 Vanessa Able

Kahlil Gibran’s poem on the fear of dissipation is a call to faith, to trust in the oceanic nature of the life-manifesting force.

Tagged becoming, Death, faith, Fear, ocean, Poetry, river, trust2 Comments
TS Eliot
Uncategorized

T.S. Eliot – The Journey of the Magi

December 24, 2021December 24, 2021 Vanessa Able

The Journey of the Magi was a poem that T.S. Eliot wrote shortly after his own conversion to the Anglican faith.

Tagged advent, birth, christmas, conversion, Death, jesus christ, rebirthLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Rebecca Doverspike – Choreography

October 23, 2022October 27, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

In her poem “Choreography”, interfaith chaplain Rebecca Doverspike dances from wind, pines, and leaves, to the mental workings of an elderly patient.

Tagged beauty, Death, healing, impermanence, loss, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, timeLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Seth Josephson – In the Future

September 18, 2022September 14, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

A short poignantly simple piece, Seth Josephson’s “In the Future” imagines a distant future without humanity or civilization.

Tagged astrophysics, Death, liberation, loss, nature, physics, Poem, poet, Poetry, science1 Comment

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