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Poetry

Heather Swan – Another Day Filled with Sleeves of Light

October 10, 2025September 28, 2025 Sam Shapiro

In our time alive, what if we trusted just as the falling raindrop trusts the holding of the approaching ocean?

Tagged faith, Joy, letting go, Light, lily, nature, nourishment, ocean, plant, trust1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Iain Grinbergs – Letter to Shunryū Suzuki (from Northampton, England)

August 3, 2025August 1, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Iain Grinbergs draws our attention to the sacred details around us in "Letter to Shunryū Suzuki (from Northampton, England)".

Tagged awareness, Buddhism, hunger, mundane, nourishment, observation, Poem, poet, Poetry, sacred, Shunryū Suzuki, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Bradley Samore – After a Day of Others’ Demands

April 3, 2022April 3, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Zen-like in its purposeful simplicity, poet Bradley Samore has made us something humble and wholesome with his poem, "After a Day of Others' Demands".

Tagged domesticity, food, healing, nourishment, Poem, poet, Poetry, Simplicity, wellness, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Elisabeth Preston-Hsu – Kitsune Udon

March 13, 2022March 14, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Like a steaming bowl of delicious flavors, Elisabeth Preston-Hsu's "Kitsune Udon" is a recipe of mythology, Zen simplicity, and storytelling.

Tagged folklore, food, kitsune, myth, mythology, nourishment, peace, Poem, poet, Poetry, ZenLeave a comment

TOP POSTS

  • Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
    Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
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    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • Billy Collins - The Dead
    Billy Collins - The Dead
  • Sealskin, Soulskin - A Fable About Returning to Our Wild Origins
    Sealskin, Soulskin - A Fable About Returning to Our Wild Origins
  • Shunryu Suzuki's Waterfall - On Separation and Death
    Shunryu Suzuki's Waterfall - On Separation and Death
  • Rebecca Solnit's Blue of Distance
    Rebecca Solnit's Blue of Distance
  • What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
    What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
  • The Most Beautiful Thing We Can Experience Is The Mysterious: Albert Einstein's Living Philosophy
    The Most Beautiful Thing We Can Experience Is The Mysterious: Albert Einstein's Living Philosophy
  • Gary Snyder - For the Children
    Gary Snyder - For the Children

- 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-

  • Regina Gort-Betances – (Mother) Bear
    Regina Gort-Betances' "(Mother) Bear" is a wild and mournful study of loss and grief, written on a canvas of bone, blood, and root.
  • A Year of Kō: 6th Sekki
    6th Sekki poems by MADISON WILLIAMS, JOSEPH PALMER and COLEMAN DAVIS
  • Deja Carr – We Held Hands in Prayers, Then I Forgot You
    Deja Carr, poet and musician, creates a altar to gratitude and mixed blessings with her "We Held Hands in Prayers, Then I Forgot You".
  • Constance Clark – Why I Stop & Stare
    Poet Constance Clark treats readers to springtime interconnectedness and abundance with her masterful "Why I Stop & Stare".
  • A Year of Kō: 5th Sekki
    5th Sekki poems by JOSEPH PALMER, SHERRY WEAVER SMITH and COLEMAN DAVIS

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