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Featured Poetry

Will Simescu – Agrapha

January 15, 2023January 13, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Will Simescu's "Agrapha" reveals a search for holiness, contrasting the gritty details of reality with imagery from the life of Christ.

Tagged Christ, divine, divinity, God, holiness, Poem, poet, Poetry, searching, seekingLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Lina Buividavičiūtė – A Housewife’s Opus Magnum

October 30, 2022October 27, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Lithuanian poet Lina Buividavičiūtė's prose poem "A Housewife's Opus Magnum" reveals a holiness discovered in simplicity and domesticity.

Tagged domesticity, God, holiness, Meditation, Poem, poet, Poetry, prose poem, Simplicity, work, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Samantha Imperi – To my child, on God

October 16, 2022October 13, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Samantha Imperi's powerful tragic poem "To my child, on God" muses God as a feminine force, forced to birth a universe she doesn't want.

Tagged birth, childbirth, God, helplessness, loss, motherhood, Poem, poet, Poetry, Suffering3 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
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Brandon McQuade – Jamaica

August 21, 2022August 24, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Wyoming poet Brandon McQuade's "Jamaica" is a narrative of searching for God in the tropics and coming face to face with disillusionment.

Tagged Caribbean, disillusion, God, Jamaica, marijuana, Mind, Poem, poet, Poetry, sea, searchingLeave a comment
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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

Ryan Diaz – Saint Hubert and the Deer

January 30, 2022January 29, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Ryan Diaz's poem, St. Hubert and the Deer, offers readers a glimpse at the crucial moment in the life of Saint Hubert--the precipice of the choice between slaughter and mercy.

Tagged Christian philosophy, Christianity, God, guilt, innocence, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, remorse, Saint, saintsLeave a comment
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Rooja Mohassessy – Intoxicated by Verses

January 23, 2022January 22, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Iranian-born poet Rooja Mohassessy presents readers a work of luscious language, devotion, wonder, faith, and also disillusionment.

Tagged disillusion, God, illumination, Islam, loss, love, Poem, poet, Poetry, prayer, UnderstandingLeave a comment
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Way-Seeking Mind

Gully and Bayou

January 18, 2022January 25, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY NEIL ELLIS ORTS This farm boy wandered the acres of woods and explored the gully. I sat under the cedar that grew on a high bank, roots exposed, waiting for the right number of rains to let go.

Tagged Awakening, biography, childhood, God, home, memory, youthLeave a comment
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Spence Pfleiderer – A Simple Morning Prayer

January 16, 2022January 16, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

The aptly-named A Simple Morning Prayer pleads for understanding and love, for connection and illumination in a handful of terse lines. This piece is evidence that a poem need not be complex or long-winded to be a thing of authentic beauty and power.

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