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Featured Poetry

Dolo Diaz – Morning Walk in the Marsh

September 21, 2025September 20, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

In "Morning Walk in the Marsh" poet Dolo Diaz pulls the quiet hush of gently stirring nature over us like a soft quilt.

Tagged dawn, marsh, morning, Morning Poem, nature, nature poem, nature poetry, Poem, poet, Poetry, Stillness, wakingLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Aviyah Abrams – Soul-Cloud of a Son

September 7, 2025September 6, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

With her three-part poem "Soul-Cloud of a Son", poet Aviyah Abrams wanders the tragic contours of loss through the radiance of verse.

Tagged beauty, Death, despair, grief, healing, loss, Meditation, mourning, nature, Poem, poet, PoetryLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Ellie Snyder – Of Herd

July 13, 2025July 10, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Montana poet Ellie Snyder takes readers into the rugged landscapes of the American West with her sturdy poem "Of Herd".

Tagged bison, community, herd, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, wild, wilderness, Wyoming, Yellowstone1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Bianca Rey – That Night Mongaup Pond Went Silent

April 27, 2025April 24, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

As readers, we are present in a moment of profound realization in Bianca Rey's poem "That Night Mongaup Pond Went Silent".

Tagged clarity, faith, God, holiness, nature, outdoors, Poem, poet, Poetry, sacredness1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Haley Neddermann – blue

April 13, 2025April 10, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Emerging poet Haley Neddermann awakens us all from cold slumber into the sacred glory of the natural world with her poem "blue".

Tagged awaken, Blue, morning, nature, nature worship, Poem, poet, Poetry, spring, thaw2 Comments
Featured Poetry

Gary Fox – Dissolve

February 16, 2025February 14, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

"Dissolve" by poet Gary Fox is a place poem, woven with the interplay of stillness and motion, light emptying into darkness.

Tagged birds, fading, Light, nature, night, nightfall, Poem, poet, Poetry, Silence, Stillness1 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
Lao Tzu
Book Bits, Chinese Texts, The Masters

The Way Back to Our Own True Nature: Wisdom from the Tao Te Ching

January 31, 2025January 30, 2025 Vanessa Able

How rushing or forcing things, becoming clever or rich lead us away from living in step with the natural way of the world.

Tagged Action, Advice, allowing, Lao Tzu, Laozi, nature, non-desire, not-knowing, Tao Te Ching, taosim, The Tao, the Way, unlearning, Wisdom1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Kurtis Ebeling – Poppies

January 26, 2025January 23, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

In these days of bitter cold, poet Kurtis Ebeling has offered us an imagistic window into idyllic summer with his tranquil poem "Poppies".

Tagged nature, nature writing, outdoors, Poem, poet, Poetry, poppies, summer, Tranquility, Trees, ZenLeave a comment
Weekly Haiku

dewdrops: Winter Week 3

January 24, 2025January 17, 2025 Trent Thomson

Winter Week 3 BY MORAG ELIZABETH HUMBLE

Tagged Haiku, nature, paw prints, rain, Silence, winter1 Comment

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