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Violeta Garcia Mendoza
Featured Poetry

Violeta Garcia-Mendoza – Seasonal Affective Disorder

January 9, 2022January 8, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

As the Northern Hemisphere settles into another long cold winter, poet Violeta Garcia-Mendoza offers readers a rather appropriate piece about winter itself, and the gloom that so often seeps into the spirit with the frigid climate.

Tagged coldness, depression, glass, melancholy, Poem, poet, Poetry, reflection, winter, wintertimeLeave a comment
Learning to Breathe again
All About Love

Learning How to Breathe Again

October 21, 2021October 20, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY DANIELLE BAIN - I went through the five stages of grief to find my own sexuality in a world that was far from supportive

Tagged acceptance, anger, bargaining, denial, depression, gay love, grief, love, same sex relationshipsLeave a comment
Amy Lowell
Uncategorized

Amy Lowell – A Blockhead

April 7, 2021April 7, 2021 Vanessa Able

A modernist poet deeply influenced by Ezra Pound's Imagist movement, Amy Lowell was an energetic and innovative voice in early 20th century poetry.

Tagged Beginner's Mind, depression, Inspiration, Meditation, Poetry, prayer beadsLeave a comment

TOP POSTS

  • Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
    Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
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    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
    Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • T.S. Eliot - East Coker from Four Quartets
    T.S. Eliot - East Coker from Four Quartets
  • Issa - This Dewdrop World
    Issa - This Dewdrop World
  • The Dexterous Butcher - Zhuangzi
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  • What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
    What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
  • Hakuin’s Song of Zazen
    Hakuin’s Song of Zazen
  • Wendell Berry - To Know The Dark
    Wendell Berry - To Know The Dark

- 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-

  • A Year of Kō: 11th Sekki
    11th Sekki poems by MADISON WILLIAMS, ELLIOT DIAMOND and COLEMAN DAVIS
  • Gene Hyde – Evening Meditation with Charles Lloyd on the Hi-Fi
    Poet Gene Hyde meditates on the transcendence of a day's collapse into dusk with his "Evening Meditation with Charles Lloyd on the Hi-Fi".
  • Mark J. Mitchell – Lazy Afternoon Poem
    Longtime San Francisco-based poet Mark J. Mitchell eases readers into the warm heavy heart of summer with his "Lazy Afternoon Poem".
  • A Year of Kō: 10th Sekki
    10th Sekki poems by JOSPEH PALMER, ELLIOT DIAMOND and COLEMAN DAVIS
  • Erica Miriam Fabri – The Bride and the Wolf
    Brooklyn poet Erica Miriam Fabri presents a dialogue of love, loss, and acceptance in her dramatic and melancholic "The Bride and the Wolf".

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