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Featured Poetry

Mathieu Cailler – After the Last Human Died

December 22, 2024December 20, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Mathieu Cailler's prose poem "After the Last Human Died" is in fact an ode to togetherness and reconnection.

Tagged connection, Death, destruction, healing, humanity, life, loss, nature, oneness, Poem, poet, Poetry, reconnection, togetherness1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Milagros Vilaplana – 12 Hours

December 15, 2024December 15, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Milagros Vilaplana pulls the veil of ignorance from our eyes with the stark, terse focus of her poem "12 Hours".

Tagged awareness, conflict, destruction, ignorance, Poem, poet, Poetry, positivity, war, world, world eventsLeave a comment
DH Lawrence
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D. H. Lawrence – Phoenix

October 14, 2020October 14, 2020 Vanessa Able

D. H. Lawrence asks what is necessary for true change, finding his answer in the legend of the phoenix, who has to be burnt thoroughly and burnt while alive in order to regenerate herself again.

Tagged change, cycles, destruction, letting go, mythology, Phoenix, Poetry, rebirth, regeneration, wholeheartedness1 Comment
j-krishnamurti
Book Bits

Love and Death are Inseparable

September 25, 2020September 25, 2020 Vanessa Able

Jiddu Krishnamurti's diaries reveal his 'process' and daily engagement with the the experience of his own consciousness and encounters with the unknown.

Tagged destruction, Diary, Journal, Meditation, observation, purity, reflectionLeave 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?
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
    Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
  • What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
    What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
  • Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer - For When We Greet Each Other
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  • Eihei Dogen - Death Poem
    Eihei Dogen - Death Poem
  • Pablo Neruda - The Sea
    Pablo Neruda - The Sea
  • Ursula le Guin and the Importance of Imagination
    Ursula le Guin and the Importance of Imagination
  • Rebecca Solnit's Blue of Distance
    Rebecca Solnit's Blue of Distance

- 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: 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".
  • Francis Weeks – Unfinished
    In five brief lines, Francis Weeks' "Unfinished" has encompassed life, death, and the endless continuation of life.
  • A Year of Kō: 9th Sekki
    9th Sekki poems by MADISON WILLIAMS, COLEMAN DAVIS and ELLIOT DIAMOND
  • Julia Roberts – Pantry Door
    With Zen simplicity and sparseness, Texas poet Julia Roberts expertly displays routine and familiarity with her brief poem "Pantry Door".

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