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Tag: Death

Danielle Pieratti
Poetry

Danielle Pieratti – Rubric for Burying a Hen

May 7, 2023May 7, 2023 Vanessa Able

Danielle Pieratti's 'Rubric for Burying a Hen' is a heartbreaking account of what it is to fail to sustain someone or something in our care.

Tagged Death, loss, love, motherhood, parenthood, self-acceptanceLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Regina Dilgen – Meditation on Thomas Merton’s Hermitage

March 12, 2023March 9, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Regina Dilgen's exquisite "Meditation on Thomas Merton's Hermitage" imagines American monastic Thomas Merton worn by grief and inspired to write.

Tagged Death, grief, Inspiration, loss, Meditation, mortality, Poem, poet, Poetry, sorrow, Thomas Merton, winter2 Comments
Pema Chodron
Book Bits

How We Live Is How We Die: Pema Chödrön on Preparing for Death Here and Now

February 11, 2023February 11, 2023 Vanessa Able

Pema Chödrön on what the Tibetan approach to living and dying can teach us about liberation in the present moment.

Tagged bardos, Buddhism, Death, groundlessness, illusion, impermanence, liberation, loss, Tibetan buddhismLeave a comment
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, trust2 Comments
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

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