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Featured Poetry

Aeris Walker – Good and Wild and Wonderful

February 12, 2023February 23, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Aeris Walker's "Good and Wild and Wonderful" is a prose poem of vast enormity, of the creation of all things.

Tagged beauty, birth, Creation, Genesis, life, love, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, prose poemLeave 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

Brigitte Goetze – How We Come to Understand or the Heart, the Right Brain, and the Left Brain Muse about Science’s Most Famous Equation

June 5, 2022June 3, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet and retired biologist Brigitte Goetze digs into her scientific background to offer readers something beautiful and wholly original.

Tagged beauty, biology, brain, Heart, love, Poem, poet, Poetry, science, Science and Religion, SpiritualityLeave a comment
Micro Gallery

Adam Powers – Relative

March 15, 2022March 15, 2022 Vanessa Able

Adam Powers' understated photographs draw out beauty from the forgotten corners of urban and commercial landscapes.

Tagged beauty, everyday, mundane, ordinary, photography, urban landscapeLeave a comment
Way-Seeking Mind

Ode to the Radio Telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, Before its Collapse

December 7, 2021December 7, 2021 Ellis Elliott

BY MARY DINGEE FILLMORE You listen all the time to the whispers of faraway stars’ radio signals. They barely flutter, but you’re more sensitive than any other telescope in the world.

Tagged astronomy, beauty, listening, observation, space, Stars, Universe5 Comments
Vanessa Able
Featured Poetry

Vanessa Able – Bhakti

December 5, 2021December 8, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

In her beautiful poem Bhakti, Vanessa Able gives life and imagery to action--specifically the action of the devotional philosophy of Bhakti yoga, which is focused on the love for a personal deity.

Tagged Advice, beauty, Devotion, Four Yogas, life, love, Poem, poet, Poetry, wonder, yoga, Zen4 Comments
Bat
Way-Seeking Mind

Sunset Meditation

November 8, 2021November 8, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY JOHN BRANTINGHAM Sunset comes late in High Sierra Summers, and by the time it does, I’m usually done for the day.

Tagged Awakening, beauty, centering, here and now, Meditation, mountains, nature, peace, presence, sunsetLeave a comment
Emily Dickinson
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Emily Dickinson – I Died for Beauty, But Was Scarce…

October 23, 2021October 22, 2021 Vanessa Able

Emily Dickinson's allegorical reflection on the relationship between beauty and truth.

Tagged allegory, beauty, Death, kinship, Poetry, truth1 Comment
Chris Abani
Book Bits

Chris Abani on the Balance and Patience of West African Beauty

October 22, 2021October 22, 2021 Vanessa Able

In West African thought, beauty surpasses the principles of symmetry and perspective and instead goes deep into the balance of being itself.

Tagged balance, beauty, equanimity, face, goodness, names, patience, serenity, West Africa2 Comments
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William Shakespeare – When I Consider Everything That Grows

September 9, 2020September 9, 2020 Vanessa Able

A sonnet from the 'Fair Youth' series that was occupied with themes of aging, passing time and the transience of physical beauty.

Tagged beauty, growth, impermanence, love, ode, perfection, Poetry, sonnetLeave a comment

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