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Tag: night

Featured Poetry

Erik Manuel Soto – Séance Under a Lunar Eclipse

March 23, 2025March 21, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Witness how endings give way to change through the serpentine form of Erik Manuel Soto's "Séance Under a Lunar Eclipse".

Tagged Aztec, change, Death, growth, Latin America, mexico, night, Poem, poet, Poetry, SpiritualityLeave a comment
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
WS Merwin
Poetry

W.S. Merwin – Rain Travel

February 6, 2025January 30, 2025 Sam Shapiro

The influence of Buddhist thought is evident in much of W.S. Merwin’s writing.

Tagged dark, dawn, journey, leaves, night, Poem, Poetry, rain, Travel1 Comment
Poetry

Wendell Berry – To Know The Dark

November 18, 2022November 17, 2022 Vanessa Able

Berry's poem is a reminder that to truly know darkness and its divine power, we need the courage to step into and leave the light behind.

Tagged dark, Darkness, Fear, Knowing, liminal space, night4 Comments
Book Bits

The Sacred Pulse of Night and Day

November 17, 2022November 17, 2022 Vanessa Able

Deborah Eden Tull explores the experience of darkness and how it can be a transformative and expansive human experience.

Tagged Buddhism, change, contemplation, dark, Darkness, Dreams, Emptiness, liminal space, nature, night, transformationLeave a comment
Clifford Venho
Featured, Featured Poetry

Clifford Venho – Forest of the Unsung

July 5, 2020July 5, 2020 Vanessa Able

Clifford Venho's Forest of the Unsung, marks the magical transition in a rich and dark forest setting from night into a day that is like 'a book waiting to be read.' 

Tagged awareness, dawn, forest, music, night, transcendence, transitionLeave a comment

TOP POSTS

  • This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
    Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
  • David Whyte - The Opening of Eyes
    David Whyte - The Opening of Eyes
  • Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
    Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
  • John O'Donohue on Soul Friendship
    John O'Donohue on Soul Friendship
  • W.S. Merwin - Rain Light
    W.S. Merwin - Rain Light
  • Pablo Neruda - The Sea
    Pablo Neruda - The Sea
  • What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
    What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
  • Letting Go of Hope - Pema Chodron
    Letting Go of Hope - Pema Chodron

- BOOK BITS -

  • Rick Ruben
    “Expanding the Universe” – Rick Rubin on Awareness in Creativity
    What is the role of awareness in creativity and how can we cultivate it to make our world a bigger and clearer place?
  • Thich Nhat Hanh
    The First Door of Liberation: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Vision of Emptiness and Interbeing
    Rather than signifying a lack or a void, Thich Nhat Hanh took emptiness to be a state of inextricable and fundamental interconnectedness.
  • Mike Travisano – Bob’s Tattoos
    A short story on the power of three simple words and how much they can mean and embody.
  • Shunryu Suzuki
    Sharing the Feeling: Zen Teacher Shunryu Suzuki on Becoming Ourselves
    The importance of keeping an empty mind for savoring the present and expressing ourselves in our most authentic way.
  • Ray Bradbury
    Running After Loves – Ray Bradbury on Fostering Hunger in Writing
    Finding the truth of our authentic passions is the key to forming the foundations of a writing practice


- POETRY-

  • Colleen Morton Busch – Tend
    With her poem "Tend", Bay Area Zen poet Colleen Morton Busch offers a gift of wisdom, acceptance, and nourishment to readers.
  • A Year of Kō: 8th Sekki
    8th Sekki poems by MADISON WILLIAMS, ELLIOT DIAMOND AND JOSEPH PALMER
  • Sarah Reichert – Divine Struggle
    Colorado poet Sarah Reichart shows how kinetic and arduous the search for faith can be with her poem "Divine Struggle".
  • Lawrence Bridges – Trees of Ojai
    Poet Lawrence Bridges once again shows readers of The Dewdrop how Zen simplicity and awareness can be a sacred thing.
  • A Year of Kō: 7th Sekki
    7th Sekki poems by JOSEPH PALMER, FRAN SCOTT and ELLIOT DIAMOND

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