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Category: Poetry

Jones Irwin
Featured Poetry

Jones Irwin – Around Here

January 24, 2021January 24, 2021 Vanessa Able

In his poem Around Here, Jones Irwin captures a sense of the current political atmosphere, a specific kind of decline in marginal communities but also how they can be energized by political ideas.

Tagged community, difference, Judgement, marginal communities, politicsLeave a comment
Muriel Rukeyser
Poetry

Muriel Rukeyser – Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars)

January 20, 2021January 20, 2021 Vanessa Able

Muriel Rukeyser's poem about how we stay connected to one another, making love and awakening, through the noise of and distraction of politics and war.

Tagged humanity, Light, love, media, peace, personal, political, warLeave a comment
Han Shan
Poetry

Han Shan – A Bug Crawling in a Bowl

January 13, 2021January 13, 2021 Vanessa Able

Han Shan's poems are rooted in the quiet nature of the Cold Mountain and the poet's effusive humor that reminds us of the worthlessness of worldly pursuits.

Tagged Chan, Cold Mountain, fools, Poetry, TaoismLeave a comment
Dilruba Ahmed
Poetry

Dilruba Ahmed – Phase One

December 23, 2020December 23, 2020 Vanessa Able

Dilruba Ahmed's poem invokes forgiveness of ourselves and others like a cleansing rain 'relieved of cruelty and petty meanness.'

Tagged Compassion, forgiveness, love, mantra, patienceLeave a comment
Taylor Mallay
Featured Poetry

Taylor Mallay – New Life

December 19, 2020December 19, 2020 Vanessa Able

Wounds, injury, cuts and abrasions slice through Taylor Mallay's poem New Life as the mystery of healing takes place, stretching skin thin and craving water like succulent plants yellowing on the windowsill.

Tagged barriers, defense, healing, injury, woundLeave a 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, wonder2 Comments
Margaret Bleichman
Featured Poetry

Margaret Bleichman – upon waking

December 13, 2020December 4, 2020 Vanessa Able

'upon waking' describes a hand-washing ritual performed after waking up in the morning, accompanied by a traditional Jewish blessing, al netilat yadayim.

Tagged blessing, cleansing, hands, Hebrew, pandemic, ritual, tradition3 Comments
Audre Lorde
Poetry

Audre Lorde – A Litany for Survival

December 9, 2020 Vanessa Able

Audre Lorde's 'A Litany for Survival' is a prayer for the marginalized, those living on the shoreline or on the 'constant edges of decision', whose forbidden loves occur in hidden places and times.

Tagged Anxiety, civil rights, Dreams, Fear, forbidden love, injustice, insecurity, survival1 Comment
Amanda Smith-Hatch
Featured Poetry

Amanda Smith-Hatch – Redemption

December 6, 2020December 6, 2020 Vanessa Able

Amanda Smith-Hatch's Redemption is an attempt to capture the profundity hidden within a seemingly banal moment in time.

Tagged memory, moment, ordinary, perception, Reality, redemptionLeave a comment
Mary Oliver
Poetry

Mary Oliver – Wild Geese

December 3, 2020December 3, 2020 Vanessa Able

Wild Geese runs like an exhalation, beginning with a lifting of the weight of religious culpability - in the prairies and the deep trees, there is no onus to be good nor to string oneself out in repentance.

Tagged despair, faith, Inspiration, Kindness, Loneliness, nature, salvation, self-love, transcendenceLeave a comment

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