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Featured Poetry

Jay Jacobs – Last Hour of Solo Retreat on the Peak of a Fearless Mountain

January 11, 2026January 10, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

In his poem "Last Hour of Solo Retreat on the Peak of a Fearless Mountain" poet Jay Jacobs invites readers to breathe and accept.

Tagged acceptance, dragon, fog, Meditation, mountain, nature, non-resistance, openness, Poem, poet, Poetry, Solitude1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Nancy Hamilton – The Door Opened

August 27, 2023August 24, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Nancy Hamilton's enlightening poem "The Door Opened" revels in the glory of openness and emptiness, and overcoming illusions.

Tagged barriers, boundaries, Buddhism, liberation, Meditation, openness, Poem, poet, Poetry, Zen2 Comments
Featured Poetry

Lindsay Rockwell – Watching the Light Shift

June 18, 2023June 15, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Both revelatory and mysterious, Lindsay Rockwell's "Watching the Light Shift" shows us the path without giving us the answers.

Tagged attention, awareness, God, Light, observation, openness, perception, Poem, poet, Poetry, presence, senses, sensoryLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Jasmine Marshall Armstrong – Yellow-Headed Blackbirds

June 11, 2023June 1, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Observant and curious, poet Jasmine Marshall Armstrong draws inspiration and lessons from birds in her poem "Yellow-Headed Blackbirds".

Tagged attention, balance, birds, california, fauna, nature, observation, openness, Poem, poet, Poetry, springLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Katie Bowers – Even Though I Am Weary of Church Pews, She Is Not

August 15, 2021August 13, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Written during the peak of the pandemic, Katie Bowers' poem touches on the challenges of faith and belief, parenting and childhood.

Tagged Belief, blessing, chakra, childhood, Children, faith, innocence, openness, parenthood, piousness, Poem, Poetry, Spirituality2 Comments
Osho
Book Bits

Don’t Hit Your Head, Just Pass Through the Door

September 7, 2020September 7, 2020 Vanessa Able

Osho on how clinging to a particular idea of love can make a marriage stale and how chasing after security can dampen the dynamic beauty of being in a constantly changing world.

Tagged change, Courage, Freedom, insecurity, intimacy, openness, Relationships, securityLeave a comment

TOP POSTS

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    The Culture of Healing: Louise Glück on Art's Restorative Power
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- 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-

  • A Year of Kō: 13th Sekki
    13th Sekki poems by BENJAMIN TANNER LLOYD, SHAOMEI YU and ELLIOT DIAMOND
  • Jonathan Jones – man in the rain
    It's not without harshness and brutal honesty that poet Jonathan Jones lays out all the discomforts of reality in his poem "man in the rain".
  • A Year of Kō: 12th Sekki
    12th Sekki poems by JOYCE RITCHIE, ELLIOT DIAMOND and COLEMAN DAVIS
  • Nathan Bakken – How to Be a Theologian
    Poet and theologian Nathan Bakken writes a three-part discourse on working in faith with his poem "How to Be a Theologian".
  • Richard Pettigrew – Drunken Flora
    Surfer-poet of Hawaii, Richard Pettigrew, once again swings by The Dewdrop, this time with a botanical tragedy "Drunken Flora".
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