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Kahlil Gibran
Poetry

Kahlil Gibran – Fear

January 19, 2023January 16, 2023 Vanessa Able

Kahlil Gibran's poem on the fear of dissipation is a call to faith, to trust in the oceanic nature of the life-manifesting force.

Tagged becoming, Death, faith, Fear, ocean, Poetry, river, trustLeave 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

Seth Josephson – In the Future

September 18, 2022September 14, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

A short poignantly simple piece, Seth Josephson's "In the Future" imagines a distant future without humanity or civilization.

Tagged astrophysics, Death, liberation, loss, nature, physics, Poem, poet, Poetry, science1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Laura Johnson – To the Daughter I Never Had

July 24, 2022July 23, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Iowa poet Laura Johnson's "To the Daughter I Never Had" is a heart-rending work of what could have been, of loss, absence, and missed opportunities.

Tagged absence, daughter, Death, Emptiness, loss, love, parenthood, Poem, poet, PoetryLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Eloise Klein Healy – Iris

May 8, 2022May 5, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Eloise Klein Healy, former Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, has encapsulated so much in the two short stanzas of her poem "Iris".

Tagged blossom, Courage, Death, flowers, growth, healing, love, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, springLeave 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
All About Love

Passersby

March 24, 2022March 24, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY JOANN STEVELOS - What happens when an abandoned child grows up and one day buries her estranged father

Tagged abandonment, Compassion, Death, father, grief, Loneliness, metta meditation, parents2 Comments
All About Love

A Love Letter to Nathaniel

February 11, 2022February 11, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY KATE TAGAI - Love only needs an instant to unfurl, and no one knows this better than the mother of a child she only knew for a few days.

Tagged Death, grief, loss, love, motherhood, parenthood2 Comments
Autumn Leaves
Way-Seeking Mind

Remember the Bear

January 5, 2022January 5, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY JENNIFER CHRISTGAU AQUINO When the fall the sky turned orange from fire, and a pandemic roared, and the children lay in bed all day, and cancer took residence in your armpits, you found a bear in your basement.

Tagged cancer, Care, Death, life, mortality, sickness, struggleLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Antoinette Kennedy – Soul in the Sky

December 26, 2021December 20, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Antoinette Kennedy has blessed readers with a poetic juxtaposition of Paradise--one of golden civilized grandeur with nothing natural, and one hoped for by the narrator, consisting of earthy goodness and authenticity.

Tagged animals, Death, faith, heaven, nature, paradise, Poem, poet, Poetry, soulLeave a comment

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