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Ziyong Chengru – Ten Verses

February 9, 2023February 9, 2023 Vanessa Able

Chinese Nun Ziyong Chengru on the pain of parting and how to draw solace from the cyclical nature of time and landscape.

Tagged Chan, Chinese Zen, Compassion, cycles, faith, grief, impermanence, journey, loss, nature, Poetry, Travel, ZenLeave 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

Brandon James O’Neil – City Adhan

August 28, 2022September 1, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Hinged on the image of Muslim cab driver finding a moment of serenity in communion with God in the chaos of New York City, Brandon James O'Neil's "City Adhan" offers readers that same serenity.

Tagged faith, God, New York City, Poem, poet, Poetry, prayer, religion, Spirituality, urban lifeLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Guadalupe Salgado Partida – Nearing Heaven

July 31, 2022July 28, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Guadalupe Salgado Partida, with her poem "Nearing Heaven", tilts our eyes skyward, just as the eyes of the poem's narrator when she asks her father about God.

Tagged faith, father, fatherhood, God, heaven, Poem, poet, Poetry, Sky, Spirituality, TravelLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Nathaniel Grayson – Some Distant Island

April 17, 2022April 18, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Melancholic and visceral, poet Nathaniel Grayson's "Some Distant Land" takes an unflinching look at faith, connection, and the places we find ourselves.

Tagged connection, divine, division, faith, femininity, loss, nature, Poem, poet, PoetryLeave 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
Featured Poetry

Katie Bowers – Even Though I Am Weary of Church Pews, She Is Not

August 15, 2021August 13, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Written during the peak of the pandemic, Katie Bowers' poem touches on the challenges of faith and belief, parenting and childhood.

Tagged Belief, blessing, chakra, childhood, Children, faith, innocence, openness, parenthood, piousness, Poem, Poetry, Spirituality1 Comment
Kevin James
Featured Poetry

Kevin James – Just for You

August 1, 2021August 23, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Kevin James' "Just for You", explores the experience of immanence, a theological doctrine stating that the divine presence is present and active in our material world as opposed to just in a metaphysical or ethereal realm.

Tagged breath, divine, existence, faith, immanence, material world, Poetry, power, religion, theology, wonder2 Comments
Dane Lyn
Featured Poetry

Dane Lyn – holy musings at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2019

July 25, 2021July 25, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Dane Lyn's "holy musings at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2019" is a brilliant work of ekphrastic poetry, inspired by a religious painting by an unknown artist, titled "The Great Harlot of Babylon".

Tagged art, artwork, ekphrastic, faith, hypocrisy, Judgement, misogyny, painting, religion, religious art, Women1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Angelic Armendariz – Nonbeliever

July 8, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Angelic Armendariz, with her poem "Nonbeliever", gives readers a brief but poignant piece with three distinct stages in questioning faith, spirituality, and God.

Tagged Belief, Believer, faith, Faith and practice, God, growth, loss, religion, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality, traumaLeave a comment

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