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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
Featured Poetry

Caroline Goodwin – Sky

October 13, 2024October 11, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Caroline Goodwin's "Sky" is like still-life in poetic form, an accounting of a space and a moment, lush with "lived-in" detail.

Tagged awareness, details, intimacy, life, observation, Poem, poet, Poetry, Quiet, Sky, Stillness, vastnessLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Barry Casey – Vocation

August 18, 2024August 15, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Maryland poet Barry Casey shines a light on the briefest of miracles that is life with his poem "Vocation".

Tagged Body, existence, holiness, life, Life is beautiful, life is enough, Poem, poet, Poetry, prayer1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Karen Luke Jackson – Noon Prayer at Salisbury Cathedral

May 19, 2024May 15, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

In Karen Luke Jackson's stunning "Prayer at Salisbury Cathedral", we are guided up stone, glass, and spire alongside prayers of parishioners.

Tagged cathedral, chant, chanting, Genesis, life, Poem, poet, Poetry, prayer, praying, sacred, sacredness, sound1 Comment
Ashley Capps
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Ashley Capps – Kindly

March 28, 2024March 29, 2024 Vanessa Able

Love of life is the animating force behind all living things; each moment we decide to give or withhold love is an emergency for someone.

Tagged biophilia, Compassion, emergency, empathy, Kindness, life, life force, love, relationship, urgencyLeave a comment
David Whyte
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David Whyte – The Opening of Eyes

March 25, 2024March 25, 2024 Sam Shapiro

Whyte's poem of clear seeing: the experience of holiness is the very ground that is under our feet.

Tagged future, hearing, life, mystery, perception, seeing, transcendence1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Joshua St. Claire & Amber Winter – Out Into the Light

December 3, 2023November 30, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Poets Joshua St. Claire and Amber Winter weave together a collaborative duet, offering a traditional kasen renga with “Out Into the Light”.

Tagged Basho, Buddhism, Japan, life, Poem, poet, Poetry, renga, ZenLeave a comment

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