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Featured Poetry

Alison Granucci – Says the Body and Soul

June 25, 2023June 22, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Composed of two contrasting parts, Alison Granucci's "Says the Body and Soul" is both an ethereal hopeful work and one of rugged desolation.

Tagged awareness, Body, perception, Poem, poet, Poetry, senses, sensory, soul, thoughtLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Lindsay Rockwell – Watching the Light Shift

June 18, 2023June 15, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Both revelatory and mysterious, Lindsay Rockwell's "Watching the Light Shift" shows us the path without giving us the answers.

Tagged attention, awareness, God, Light, observation, openness, perception, Poem, poet, Poetry, presence, senses, sensoryLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Ronán P. Berry – On The Mountain of Forth

March 19, 2023March 12, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

"On The Mountain of Forth" is Irish poet Ronán P. Berry's anthem of the natural and wild world and what could even be considered enlightenment.

Tagged awareness, Ireland, Irish, mountain, mountains, nature, nature writing, Poem, poet, Poetry, Self, self-awarenessLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

B.R. Wilder – Oh Mother, do not give me bliss

October 2, 2022September 30, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

To be filled with gratitude for life and experience in its entirety--that is the meaning conveyed in B.R. Wilder's poem "Oh Mother, do not give me bliss".

Tagged awareness, bliss, entirety, Experience, experiencing, Gratitude, life, Poem, poet, PoetryLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Marcy Rae Henry – start with looking

September 25, 2022September 22, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Marcy Rae Henry's poem glitters with awareness, gratitude, and release. Each stanza highlights a moment or image that is, in fact, a gift.

Tagged awareness, Buddhism, Buddhist poetry, Gratitude, loss, Poem, poet, Poetry, self-awareness, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Gina Ferrara – Along Its Course

July 17, 2022July 14, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

New Orleans poet Gina Ferrara writes a poem of awareness, inevitability, permanence, and nature, the lines of which are gathered around the shores of a sluggish river.

Tagged awareness, nature, outdoors, Poem, poet, Poetry, river, rivers, Water, watersLeave a comment
Tallu Schuyer Quinn
Book Bits

Normal Days – A Tribute to the Ordinary From the Far Edge of Life

May 3, 2022October 10, 2022 Vanessa Able

After a glioblastoma diagnosis, Tallu Schuyler Quinn wrote about what dying meant to her body, mind and heart in this series of moving essays.

Tagged awareness, Death, Dying, glioblastoma, Gratitude, normal, ordinary, perspectiveLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Suzanne Eaton – windchimes

February 27, 2022February 21, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Suzanne Eaton's windchimes is a meditative discourse on wind and sound, and the tranquility and openness manifested by the simple act of stillness.

Tagged awareness, Gratitude, Meditation, nature, peace, Poem, poet, Poetry, Quiet, Stillness, Tranquility, wind, Zen1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Pamela Denyes – The Fog of October

October 24, 2021October 28, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

The Fog of October is Pamela Denyes' call to the wild, an invitation to look beneath the surface of the mundane--to the mysticism beyond the veil.

Tagged autumn, awareness, change, growth, mystic, mysticism, nature, nature writing, path, Poem, Poetry, wild, wildnessLeave a comment
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The Full Awareness of Breathing

September 6, 2021September 11, 2021 Vanessa Able

In the Anapanasati Sutta, the Buddha presents a visceral kind of practice with the breath, that illuminates the experience of joy, calm and impermanence.

Tagged awareness, Breathing meditation, Buddha, Buddhism, calm, Joy, liberation, Meditation, presence, sutta, Understanding1 Comment

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