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Tag: Darkness

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, night3 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
Robert Frost
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Robert Frost – Acquainted with the Night

May 19, 2021May 19, 2021 Vanessa Able

Robert Frost's sad and somber poem reads like a reminiscence told by a survivor of a period of bleakness so deep that it was something to be hidden

Tagged Darkness, Loneliness, Poetry, Solitude, time1 Comment
TS Eliot
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T.S. Eliot – East Coker from Four Quartets

April 21, 2021April 21, 2021 Vanessa Able

T.S. Eliot's epic Four Quartets embodies a mystical vision of human life, time and memory sourced from Christianity and eastern philosophy.

Tagged Darkness, Death, Elements, modernism, mysticism, paradox, PoetryLeave a comment
Micro Gallery

Cynthia Ruse – The In-Between

March 23, 2021March 22, 2021 Vanessa Able

Cynthia Ruse's The In-Between reflects the parallel and layered elements of life, where light and darkness are blurred and the narrative of a painting becomes experience in itself.

Tagged art, Darkness, Experience, layer, Light, painting, space2 Comments
Emma Wynn
Featured Poetry

Emma Wynn – Sitting Dawn

February 28, 2021February 27, 2021 Vanessa Able

Emma Wynn's poem inspired by a dawn meditation.

Tagged Darkness, dawn, LightLeave a comment
Wanda Coleman
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Wanda Coleman – Nocturne

February 3, 2021February 3, 2021 Vanessa Able

Wanda Coleman's 'Nocturne' holds up the exertion born of necessity or stubbornness, and an awareness of the things—both internal and external—that impede momentum.

Tagged Black Poets, Darkness, exertion, persistence, Poetry, running, strength, struggleLeave a comment
Brother David Steindl-Rast
Book Bits

‘Better to Light a Candle’ – The Healing Power of Vespers

October 12, 2020October 12, 2020 Vanessa Able

Brother David Steindl-Rast hones in on a transcendental moment of the day which in the monastic tradition is a time of reflection and healing.

Tagged chant, Christianity, Darkness, Gratitude, healing, prayer, reflection, vespersLeave a comment
Joan Halifax
Book Bits

The Path That Leads Into the Mountains

August 3, 2020August 3, 2020 Vanessa Able

In 1993, Zen teacher Joan Halifax published a book called The Fruitful Darkness based on her anthropological engagements with Tibetan Buddhists, Mexican shamans, Native American elders and other tribal communities.

Tagged change, Darkness, energy, geography, healing, inquiry, journeys, mountains, Peaks, pilgrimage, refuge, spirit, summit, Travel, truth, Zen1 Comment
Raymond P. Hammond
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Raymond P. Hammond – F Train

July 19, 2020July 17, 2020 Vanessa Able

"While I often found the emergence from the dark of the tunnel shocking, as my eyes would adjust and I would look forward and skyward, I always found this image to be comforting, reassuring."

Tagged Darkness, emergence, religion, Spirituality, transcendence, zoetrope1 Comment

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