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Tag: civilization

Featured Poetry

Stacey Elza – To Build a Bow

May 21, 2023May 20, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Juxtaposing the antagonistic nature of humanity with the protective and peaceful side, poet Stacey Elza offers readers "To Build a Bow".

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Featured Poetry

Katie Jones – Morning

March 20, 2022March 18, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

A fresh, new, and powerful voice in poetry, Katie Jones offers a morning poem, awakening on a very human world desperately imposing itself on natural orders.

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TOP POSTS

  • Shaomei Yu - The Closed Door
    Shaomei Yu - The Closed Door
  • Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
    Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
  • This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
    What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • The Most Beautiful Thing We Can Experience Is The Mysterious: Albert Einstein's Living Philosophy
    The Most Beautiful Thing We Can Experience Is The Mysterious: Albert Einstein's Living Philosophy
  • Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
    Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
  • Rebecca Elson - Antidotes to Fear of Death
    Rebecca Elson - Antidotes to Fear of Death
  • Rebecca Solnit's Blue of Distance
    Rebecca Solnit's Blue of Distance
  • Billy Collins - The Dead
    Billy Collins - The Dead

- BOOK BITS -

  • Don’t Waste Suffering: Ramiro López Larroy on Opening the Doors of Liberation
    How can we use the things that give us difficulty in our lives to learn and grow, rather than avoiding them, or trying to push them away?
  • Rick Ruben
    “Expanding the Universe” – Rick Rubin on Awareness in Creativity
    What is the role of awareness in creativity and how can we cultivate it to make our world a bigger and clearer place?
  • Thich Nhat Hanh
    The First Door of Liberation: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Vision of Emptiness and Interbeing
    Rather than signifying a lack or a void, Thich Nhat Hanh took emptiness to be a state of inextricable and fundamental interconnectedness.
  • Mike Travisano – Bob’s Tattoos
    A short story on the power of three simple words and how much they can mean and embody.
  • Shunryu Suzuki
    Sharing the Feeling: Zen Teacher Shunryu Suzuki on Becoming Ourselves
    The importance of keeping an empty mind for savoring the present and expressing ourselves in our most authentic way.


- POETRY-

  • Shaomei Yu – The Closed Door
    Chinese-American poet Shaomei Yu reflects on loss and transition with Zen-like sparseness in her poem "The Closed Door".
  • Claudia Kessel – Samsara
    In her epic "Samsara", poet Claudia Kessel leans the ancient tenants of Buddhism against the gritty reality of the 21st Century.
  • A Year of Kō: 16th Sekki
    16th Sekki poems by COLEMAN DAVIS, MADISON WILLIAMS and SHAOMEI YU
  • Bob Rama – Ascetic Aesthetics
    Translator and poet Bob Rama shines a little candlelight on ascetic renunciation in his pleasingly-titled poem "Ascetic Aesthetics".
  • Emily Tong – Girlhood Ghazal
    Using the ancient poetic form of the ghazal, Asian-American poet Emily Tong searches for home in her "Girlhood Ghazal".
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