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Featured Poetry

Wanda VanderStoop – Chemin Poulin, Qc

March 1, 2026February 28, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

"Chemin Poulin, Qc" by poet Wanda VanderStoop tantalizes the senses with lush earthiness brimming with abundance and life.

Tagged birds, cycles, earth, earthiness, life, Life is beautiful, nature, Olav Hauge, Poem, poet, Poetry, WaterLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Elias Tucker – Corona del Mar

February 1, 2026January 31, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

Emerging poet Elias Tucker offers much more than a love poem with his "Corona del Mar". He offers praise and gratitude to God.

Tagged awe, beach, california, God, grateful, Gratitude, life, Life is beautiful, love, love poem, ocean, Poem, poet, Poetry, praise, shoreLeave a comment
Book Bits

Mike Travisano – Bob’s Tattoos

October 6, 2025September 28, 2025 Vanessa Able

A short story on the power of three simple words and how much they can mean and embody.

Tagged breath, connection, Death, exhale, inhale, life, meaning, memory, tattoo1 Comment
Weekly Haiku

dewdrops: Summer Week 8

September 1, 2025September 2, 2025 Trent Thomson

Summer Week 8 BY NIHARIKA RAJAN SINHA

Tagged Dreams, flowers, life, pond, roots, Seasonal, summerLeave a comment
Weekly Haiku

dewdrops: Summer Week 7

August 21, 2025August 17, 2025 Trent Thomson

Summer Week 7 BY KIMBERLY HALL

Tagged cicada, earth, grass, life, music, Seasonal, summerLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Trapper Markelz – Final Wishes

May 11, 2025May 10, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Massachusetts poet Trapper Markelz paints a picture of grief and rest in the grey quiet of his poem "Final Wishes".

Tagged burial, Death, final wishes, finality, grief, life, loss, Poem, poet, PoetryLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Grant Moser – starings and starvings

February 9, 2025February 7, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Grant Moser's diminutive prose poem "starings and starvings" is disarmingly all-encompassing, a statement that we are alive.

Tagged alive, aliveness, connection, earth, Interconnectedness, life, nature, Poem, poet, PoetryLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Mathieu Cailler – After the Last Human Died

December 22, 2024December 20, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Mathieu Cailler's prose poem "After the Last Human Died" is in fact an ode to togetherness and reconnection.

Tagged connection, Death, destruction, healing, humanity, life, loss, nature, oneness, Poem, poet, Poetry, reconnection, togetherness1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Lou Second – At a party, 1.30 am, blasting music to last

December 1, 2024November 29, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Emerging French poet and artist Lou Second gives us a window into innermost thoughts with his "At a party, 1.30 am, blasting music to last".

Tagged Death, flowing, life, loss, love, memory, Poem, poet, Poetry, wishLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Michael McIrvin – In the Space …

November 3, 2024October 31, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Wyoming poet Michael McIrvin makes holy the simple act of existence, shows us that daily life is perhaps quite miraculous.

Tagged divinity, existence, holiness, life, metaphysics, physics, Poem, poet, Poetry, sacredness, SimplicityLeave a comment

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  • Shunryu Suzuki
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