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Tag: fate

Featured Poetry

Paul Kiernan – After the Funeral Rites

October 8, 2023October 5, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Florida poet Paul Kiernan gives voice and humanity to one of the most maligned women of classical poetry, Helen of Troy.

Tagged ancient greek, Death, destiny, epic, fate, Homer, loss, love, perspective, Poem, poet, PoetryLeave a comment
Ernest Hemingway
Book Bits

La Mar, El Mar: Ernest Hemingway’s Kind, Beautiful, Cruel Ocean

July 9, 2021July 9, 2021 Vanessa Able

Ernest Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea', has to be one of the most accomplished accounts of a lifetime's intimacy with the sea.

Tagged cruelty, fate, femenine, luck, ocean, sea, Silence, struggle2 Comments
Theodore Roethke
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Theodore Roethke – The Waking

July 22, 2020July 22, 2020 Vanessa Able

Theodore Roethke was an intensely introspective poet whose work has been hailed by critics as some of the finest American poetry from the last century.

Tagged Awakening, awareness, fate, Fear, learning, Poetry, wakingLeave a comment

TOP POSTS

  • Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
    Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
  • This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
    Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
    Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
  • A Year of Kō: 17th Sekki
    A Year of Kō: 17th Sekki
  • Nathan Hassall - Write a simple poem, my wife said, so I wrote a short one
    Nathan Hassall - Write a simple poem, my wife said, so I wrote a short one
  • Billy Collins - The Dead
    Billy Collins - The Dead
  • Wendell Berry - To Know The Dark
    Wendell Berry - To Know The Dark
  • William Stafford's Looking Across the River
    William Stafford's Looking Across the River

- BOOK BITS -

  • Don’t Waste Suffering: Ramiro López Larroy on Opening the Doors of Liberation
    How can we use the things that give us difficulty in our lives to learn and grow, rather than avoiding them, or trying to push them away?
  • 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.


- POETRY-

  • Nathan Hassall – Write a simple poem, my wife said, so I wrote a short one
    Poet Nathan Hassall's "Write a simple poem, my wife said, so I wrote a short one" transcends the small confines of its verbiage into the enormity of universal divinity.
  • A Year of Kō: 17th Sekki
    17th Sekki poems by BOB RAMA, COLEMAN DAVIS and SHAOMEI YU
  • Shaomei Yu – The Closed Door
    Chinese-American poet Shaomei Yu reflects on loss and transition with Zen-like sparseness in her poem "The Closed Door".
  • Claudia Kessel – Samsara
    In her epic "Samsara", poet Claudia Kessel leans the ancient tenants of Buddhism against the gritty reality of the 21st Century.
  • A Year of Kō: 16th Sekki
    16th Sekki poems by COLEMAN DAVIS, MADISON WILLIAMS and SHAOMEI YU
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