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Tag: dark

Featured Poetry

Carsten Czarnecki – Hunter’s Curse & Cure

October 5, 2025October 3, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

With primal surrealism, poet Carsten Czarnecki serves as a guide into a sort of dark mysticism in his poem "Hunter's Curse & Cure".

Tagged dark, Death, healing, hunter, hunting, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, prey, Violence1 Comment
Micro Gallery

The Anatomy of Moments

June 26, 2025June 23, 2025 Vanessa Able

Hosho McCreesh's visual, lyrical, haiku-like psalms are strikingly beautiful, and always striving for less.

Tagged dark, Haiku, humanity, landscape, loss, love, meaning, photography, Poetry, psalms, struggleLeave a comment
WS Merwin
Poetry

W.S. Merwin – Rain Travel

February 6, 2025January 30, 2025 Sam Shapiro

The influence of Buddhist thought is evident in much of W.S. Merwin’s writing.

Tagged dark, dawn, journey, leaves, night, Poem, Poetry, rain, Travel1 Comment
Weekly Haiku

dewdrops: Winter Week 4

January 30, 2025January 30, 2025 Trent Thomson

Winter Week 4 BY LEELAH HOLMES

Tagged city, dark, Haiku, slush, snow, winterLeave a comment
Poetry

Wendell Berry – To Know The Dark

November 18, 2022November 17, 2022 Vanessa Able

Berry's poem is a reminder that to truly know darkness and its divine power, we need the courage to step into and leave the light behind.

Tagged dark, Darkness, Fear, Knowing, liminal space, night4 Comments
Book Bits

The Sacred Pulse of Night and Day

November 17, 2022November 17, 2022 Vanessa Able

Deborah Eden Tull explores the experience of darkness and how it can be a transformative and expansive human experience.

Tagged Buddhism, change, contemplation, dark, Darkness, Dreams, Emptiness, liminal space, nature, night, transformationLeave a comment

TOP POSTS

  • This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • Philip Booth - First Lesson
    Philip Booth - First Lesson
  • Objects of Contemplation
    Objects of Contemplation
  • Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
    Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
  • Mary Oliver - To Begin With, the Sweetgrass
    Mary Oliver - To Begin With, the Sweetgrass
  • Master Daito's Original Face
    Master Daito's Original Face
  • John O'Donohue on Soul Friendship
    John O'Donohue on Soul Friendship
  • Pablo Neruda - The Sea
    Pablo Neruda - The Sea
  • Lucille Clifton - why some people be mad at me sometimes
    Lucille Clifton - why some people be mad at me sometimes

- BOOK BITS -

  • 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.
  • Ray Bradbury
    Running After Loves – Ray Bradbury on Fostering Hunger in Writing
    Finding the truth of our authentic passions is the key to forming the foundations of a writing practice


- POETRY-

  • Constance Clark – Why I Stop & Stare
    Poet Constance Clark treats readers to springtime interconnectedness and abundance with her masterful "Why I Stop & Stare".
  • A Year of Kō: 5th Sekki
    5th Sekki poems by JOSEPH PALMER, SHERRY WEAVER SMITH and COLEMAN DAVIS
  • Maureen Martinez – How to Pass as a Woman of Faith
    Emerging poet Maureen Martinez slows us down for a moment with her hybrid prose poem "How to Pass as a Woman of Faith".
  • Jeremy Giles – Grass Field We Named Beach
    Like a fistful of sand scattered across white space, poet Jeremy Giles leans into experimentalism in his poem "Grass Field We Named Beach".
  • A Year of Kō: 4th Sekki
    4th Sekki poems by JOYCE RITCHIE, DIANA LIVI and VIRGINIA FOLGER
 

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