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Featured Poetry

Mary McGinnis – Trail Prayer

April 9, 2023April 7, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Just in time for springtime, New Mexico poet Mary McGinnis beckons us out into great outdoors with her poem "Trail Prayer".

Tagged friendship, life, nature, outdoors, paths, Poem, poet, Poetry, prayer, spring, trails2 Comments
Featured Poetry

Aeris Walker – Good and Wild and Wonderful

February 12, 2023February 23, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Aeris Walker's "Good and Wild and Wonderful" is a prose poem of vast enormity, of the creation of all things.

Tagged beauty, birth, Creation, Genesis, life, love, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, prose poemLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

David Anthony Martin – The After

November 6, 2022November 3, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Colorado poet and outdoorsman David Anthony Martin reminds us of the inevitability of life and tomorrows with his poem "The After".

Tagged amends, daily life, future, growth, healing, life, Poem, poet, Poetry, Suffering, Wisdom2 Comments
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B.R. Wilder – Oh Mother, do not give me bliss

October 2, 2022September 30, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

To be filled with gratitude for life and experience in its entirety--that is the meaning conveyed in B.R. Wilder's poem "Oh Mother, do not give me bliss".

Tagged awareness, bliss, entirety, Experience, experiencing, Gratitude, life, Poem, poet, PoetryLeave a comment
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Ursula K. Le Guin – Kinship

March 26, 2022March 25, 2022 Vanessa Able

The mystical teachings of trees are beautifully expressed in Ursula K. Le Guin's poem, Kinship, in which she explores our own primal origins.

Tagged being, forest, interbeing, life, nature, Poetry, TreesLeave a comment
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Way-Seeking Mind

Remember the Bear

January 5, 2022January 5, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY JENNIFER CHRISTGAU AQUINO When the fall the sky turned orange from fire, and a pandemic roared, and the children lay in bed all day, and cancer took residence in your armpits, you found a bear in your basement.

Tagged cancer, Care, Death, life, mortality, sickness, struggleLeave a comment
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Salamander

December 21, 2021December 20, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY ELANA MARGOT SANTANA Yesterday I found a salamander resting or dying in my garden. Translucent blood red skin with yellow speckles, big black bulging eyes...

Tagged Advice, Care, Compassion, Death, life, living, loss, love, nature, reptile1 Comment
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Featured Poetry

Vanessa Able – Bhakti

December 5, 2021December 8, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

In her beautiful poem Bhakti, Vanessa Able gives life and imagery to action--specifically the action of the devotional philosophy of Bhakti yoga, which is focused on the love for a personal deity.

Tagged Advice, beauty, Devotion, Four Yogas, life, love, Poem, poet, Poetry, wonder, yoga, Zen4 Comments
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Martine van Bijlert – this life we built

November 7, 2021November 5, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Martine van Bijlert's poem, this life we built, is a snapshot of domesticity and contentment, but with a tense uncertainty of the future.

Tagged contentment, daily life, domesticity, enough, home, life, life is enough, Loneliness, Poem, poet, Poetry, routine, satisfactionLeave a comment
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Derek Furr – The Meadow

October 31, 2021October 29, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Derek Furr has given readers something truly beautiful with his poem The Meadow, an idyllic narrative and a parable that both questions whether this life is enough and also gives us the answer.

Tagged Advice, journey, life, Life is beautiful, life is enough, parable, pilgrimage, Poem, Poetry, Wandering3 Comments

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