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Tag: Fear

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
Poetry

Wendell Berry – To Know The Dark

November 18, 2022November 17, 2022 Vanessa Able

Berry's poem is a reminder that to truly know darkness and its divine power, we need the courage to step into and leave the light behind.

Tagged dark, Darkness, Fear, Knowing, liminal space, night3 Comments
Way-Seeking Mind

Observed by Deer

August 5, 2022August 5, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY SARA MCAULAY I’ve come here for raptors. Left my campsite at dawn, hiked down through blue shadows to the meadow.

Tagged deer, Fear, Gratitude, love, nature, waiting2 Comments
Marie Howe
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Marie Howe – Death, the last visit

November 16, 2021November 15, 2021 Vanessa Able

Marie Howe's different, highly sexual vision of transitioning out of life through a double-take on 'la petite morte,' the experience of orgasm as 'a little death.'

Tagged Death, ecstasy, Fear, love, orgasm, Poetry, relief, sexLeave a comment
Jericho Brown
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Jericho Brown – Bullet Points

September 8, 2021September 8, 2021 Vanessa Able

Jericho Brown's poem talks to the weight carried by black Americans who live under the constant threat of police violence and injustice.

Tagged Black Poets, Death, Fear, injustice, Poetry, Social Change, ViolenceLeave a comment
J.A. Baker
Book Bits

To Share Fear is the Greatest Bond of All: J.A. Baker’s Loving Portrait of the Peregrine

June 11, 2021June 12, 2021 Vanessa Able

Sometimes described as England's greatest cult book, The Peregrine is a beautiful, lyrical expression of one man's fascination with this hunting bird that he came to know intimately on a daily basis for over a decade.

Tagged conservation, Engagement, Fear, hunting, intimacy, love, nature writing, passion, peregrineLeave a comment
Wendy Blaxland
Featured Poetry

Wendy Blaxland – That Wind

May 23, 2021May 23, 2021 Vanessa Able

For Wendy Blaxland, That Wind is a poetic response to what happens in her immediate natural world.

Tagged Fear, Freedom, Light, nature, weather, windLeave a comment
Paul Tillich
Book Bits

On the Anxiety of Non-Being

December 14, 2020December 14, 2020 Vanessa Able

Theologian Paul Tillich on the interplay of anxiety and fear and how they feed in to one another at the very foundation of the human mind.

Tagged Anxiety, Death, Emptiness, existence, Fear, God, non-being, nothingness, theology, unknown2 Comments
Audre Lorde
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Audre Lorde – A Litany for Survival

December 9, 2020 Vanessa Able

Audre Lorde's 'A Litany for Survival' is a prayer for the marginalized, those living on the shoreline or on the 'constant edges of decision', whose forbidden loves occur in hidden places and times.

Tagged Anxiety, civil rights, Dreams, Fear, forbidden love, injustice, insecurity, Poetry, survival1 Comment
Jack Gilbert
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Jack Gilbert – Failing and Flying

November 4, 2020November 6, 2020 Vanessa Able

Fearing future outcomes should not stop us from pouring ourselves fully into today. As Jack Gilbert reminds us: 'Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.'

Tagged defeat, Dreams, failure, Fear, here and now, impermanence, love, Poetry, Relationships, romance2 Comments

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