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Category: Poetry

Featured Poetry

Homa Mojadidi – Submission

March 8, 2026March 7, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

Afghan-American poet Homa Mojadidi manifests the magnitude and all-encompassing power of reverence and divinity with her poem "Submission".

Tagged Allah, Emptiness, faith, God, Islam, Muhammad, Poem, poet, Poetry, revelation, reverence, submissionLeave a comment
Poetry

Wislawa Szymborska – Conversation with a Stone

March 7, 2026March 7, 2026 Vanessa Able

Have you ever tried to have a conversation with a stone? How did it go?

Tagged conversation, determination, imagination, imagining, impossibility, impossible, innocence, Poem, questioning, stoneLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Wanda VanderStoop – Chemin Poulin, Qc

March 1, 2026February 28, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

"Chemin Poulin, Qc" by poet Wanda VanderStoop tantalizes the senses with lush earthiness brimming with abundance and life.

Tagged birds, cycles, earth, earthiness, life, Life is beautiful, nature, Olav Hauge, Poem, poet, Poetry, WaterLeave a comment
Elizabeth Bishop
Poetry

Elizabeth Bishop – Little Exercise

February 27, 2026March 2, 2026 Vanessa Able

Written when she was living in Key West in the 1930s and 40s, Bishop was inspired by the uneasy beauty of the tropical storms there.

Tagged change, disruption, envisioning, exercise, florida, guided meditation, imagining, impermanence, Key West, nature, Poem, unease, upheavalLeave a comment
Weekly Haiku

A Year of Kō: 1st Sekki

February 23, 2026February 27, 2026 Trent Thomson

1st Sekki poems by JAMES PENHA, ELENA BRENNEMAN and BRAM B. BRIGGANCE

Tagged cold, heat, hot, Hot and cold, Poem, Poetry, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Travis Stephens – Spring is the Time of Horses

February 22, 2026February 20, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

Californian tugboat captain and poet Travis Stephens smothers readers in the cold grit of resurrection in his "Spring is the Time of Horses".

Tagged earth, earthiness, growth, nature, Olav Hauge, Poem, poet, Poetry, rebirth, rejuvenation, resurrection, spring, springtimeLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Carolyn Chilton Casas – Destiny

February 15, 2026February 14, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

The couplets of Carolyn Chilton Casas' "Destiny" reveal an empowering poetic manifesto of awareness and interconnectedness.

Tagged awareness, belonging, connection, destiny, Identity, Interconnectedness, Moon, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, wildlifeLeave a comment
Weekly Haiku

dewdrops: Transition Haiku

February 9, 2026February 9, 2026 Trent Thomson

Transition Haiku BY REV. GENJO TRE WILLIAMS

Tagged cold, heat, hot, Hot and cold, Poem, Poetry, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Shayana Foroutan – on a trip to rome, my sister’s friend says i seem like i’d hate christianity

February 8, 2026February 8, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

Shayana Foroutan's gritty and tangible "on a trip to rome, my sister’s friend says i seem like i’d hate christianity" pulls no punches.

Tagged betrayal, blood, Christianity, crucifixion, humanity, jesus, jesus christ, Poem, poet, Poetry, RomeLeave a comment
Poetry

Wallace Stevens – The Snowman

February 7, 2026February 6, 2026 Vanessa Able

A poem imbued with a sense of healing and strength cultivated over many seasons, enabling the capacity for wide-open looking and listening.

Tagged American Poetry, Emptiness, faith, loss, Mind of Winter, nothing, perception, Poetry, Resilience, Robert Bly, The Snow Man, Wallace Stevens, winter2 Comments

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