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Category: Featured Poetry

Featured Poetry

Ryan Diaz – A Vow of Poverty

October 1, 2023September 28, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

With the juxtaposition of piousness and sacredness to desire and indulgence, Ryan Diaz surprises us with his "A Vow of Poverty".

Tagged carnal, desire, erotic, holiness, lust, piousness, Poem, poet, Poetry, sex, spiritualLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Joanne Alfano – Hope

September 24, 2023September 21, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Positively radiant, Joanne Alfano's "Hope" is a poem that crashes through darkness with its opening lines like a clarion call.

Tagged celebration, faith, Faith and practice, journey, Poem, poet, Poetry, religion, seeking, SpiritualityLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Sheila Lynch-Benttinen – Equations

September 17, 2023September 15, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Massachusetts poet Sheila Lynch-Benttinen's "Equations" is a work of heavy content, juxtaposed with simple elegance and sparseness.

Tagged aging, choice, life, life-and-death, love, Poem, poet, Poetry, timeLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Judy Mathews – After Weeks Without Rain in Northwest Ohio

September 10, 2023September 7, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

"After Weeks Without Rain in Northwest Ohio" by poet Judy Mathews is an offering or a prayer to the natural blessings of a place.

Tagged nature, nature worship, offering, Poem, poet, Poetry, prayer, prayer beads, rain, stormLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Erika Seshadri – Eviction Notice

September 3, 2023August 24, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

As gently as the narrator of the poem relocates a spider, Erika Seshadri carefully places her quiet poem "Eviction Notice" at our feet.

Tagged ahimsa, Buddhism, Compassion, gentleness, nonviolence, Poem, poet, Poetry, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Nancy Hamilton – The Door Opened

August 27, 2023August 24, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Nancy Hamilton's enlightening poem "The Door Opened" revels in the glory of openness and emptiness, and overcoming illusions.

Tagged barriers, boundaries, Buddhism, liberation, Meditation, openness, Poem, poet, Poetry, Zen1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Steve Fay – turnings: a suite of poems

August 20, 2023August 15, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Steve Fay's "turnings: a suite of poems" is something special, a sequence of earthy fragments tumbling down the page like detritus.

Tagged Beat, Beat Poetry, Beat Zen, earthiness, nature, Poem, poet, poetic sequence, Poetry, sparseness, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Adam Jon Miller – anthology

August 13, 2023August 8, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Adam Jon Miller offers readers a peek at a part of series of poems inspired by the ancient Chinese poets with his "anthology".

Tagged ancient, China, Chinese, Chinese philosophy, Chinese Poetry, Chinese Zen, history, mystery, Poem, poet, Poetry, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Liam Wholihan – Elegy for a Virgin-Born Bonnethead Shark Pup

August 6, 2023August 3, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Liam Wholihan offers a lament for several different things in his complex "Elegy for a Virgin-Born Bonnethead Shark Pup".

Tagged elegy, loss, miracle, miracles, miraculous birth, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, science, Science and Religion, virgin birthLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Dimitri Papadopoulos – burgundy and oak

July 23, 2023July 20, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Dimitri Papadopoulos returns us to innocence, nostalgia, and inspiration with his touching poem "burgundy and oak".

Tagged earth, innocence, Inspiration, muses, mythology, nostalgia, Poem, poet, Poetry, return, youth1 Comment

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    With the juxtaposition of piousness and sacredness to desire and indulgence, Ryan Diaz surprises us with his "A Vow of Poverty".
  • Joanne Alfano – Hope
    Positively radiant, Joanne Alfano's "Hope" is a poem that crashes through darkness with its opening lines like a clarion call.
  • Sheila Lynch-Benttinen – Equations
    Massachusetts poet Sheila Lynch-Benttinen's "Equations" is a work of heavy content, juxtaposed with simple elegance and sparseness.
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    "After Weeks Without Rain in Northwest Ohio" by poet Judy Mathews is an offering or a prayer to the natural blessings of a place.
  • Erika Seshadri – Eviction Notice
    As gently as the narrator of the poem relocates a spider, Erika Seshadri carefully places her quiet poem "Eviction Notice" at our feet.
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