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Featured Poetry

Gene Hyde – Evening Meditation with Charles Lloyd on the Hi-Fi

July 19, 2026July 18, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Gene Hyde meditates on the transcendence of a day's collapse into dusk with his "Evening Meditation with Charles Lloyd on the Hi-Fi".

Tagged awareness, Meditation, music, observation, Poem, poet, Poetry, reflection, spiritual jazz, spiritual music, Zen1 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
Robert Haas
Poetry

Robert Hass – Faint Music

April 29, 2025April 30, 2025 The Dewdrop

The possibility of a melodious tenderness found within deeper, softer levels of our individual grasping, struggling, imperfect humanity. 

Tagged Freedom, grace, grasping, humanity, melody, music, pain, Suffering, tendernessLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Beth Gordon – The Crone Humming

September 1, 2024August 29, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

We welcome September with poet Beth Gordon's prose poem "The Crone Humming", a wild hymnal for the unknown and unspeakable.

Tagged age, aging, crone, music, Poem, poet, Poetry, Song, wild, wildnessLeave a comment
All About Love

The Invitation

July 13, 2024July 13, 2024 Vanessa Able

Inviting joy through the divine sound of songs; while singing them for solace. BY CHRISTI KRUG

Tagged blues, divine sound, invitation, Joy, love song, music, prayer, Solace, Song, spiritual music, zebra finchLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Kathryn Kimball – 432Hz

January 28, 2024January 27, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

With Zen-like precision and sparseness, poet Kathryn Kimball leads us down currents of time, connection, and calmness with her poem "432Hz".

Tagged calmness, frequency, Interconnectedness, Meditation, music, Poem, poet, Poetry, time, vibration, Zen2 Comments
Anais Nin
Book Bits

The Expression of a Better World – Anaïs Nin on Transience and the Painful, Familiar Beauty of Music

November 20, 2021November 19, 2021 Vanessa Able

Anaïs Nin on music, mortality, and what it is to glimpse a joyful vision of a land from which we came and which we have forgotten.

Tagged Death, exile, impermanence, intervals, music, nostalgia, notes, sorrow, space, transience2 Comments
Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen – Roshi

September 2, 2021September 2, 2021 Vanessa Able

Leonard Cohen on how the teachings of a Zen master can manifest in unexpected and obtuse ways.

Tagged music, Poetry, roshi, teaching, ZenLeave a comment
Around the Rings of Saturn
All About Love

Around the Rings of Saturn

August 19, 2021August 17, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY JAMES SNOW Falling in love with someone in a foreign city poses the question: is it the person or the place I’m really in love with?

Tagged Istanbul, love, music, relationship, romance, Travel, turkeyLeave a comment
Kathleen Dean Moore
Interview, Why I Write

Why I Write – A Conversation with Kathleen Dean Moore

May 4, 2021June 15, 2021 Vanessa Able

Author and activist Kathleen Dean Moore on what inspires her, what drives her, and her struggle to write about hope.

Tagged activism, conversation, earth, ecology, environment, interview, music, philosophy, sound, WritingLeave a comment

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