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Featured Poetry

Sheila Lynch-Benttinen – Equations

September 17, 2023September 15, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Massachusetts poet Sheila Lynch-Benttinen's "Equations" is a work of heavy content, juxtaposed with simple elegance and sparseness.

Tagged aging, choice, life, life-and-death, love, Poem, poet, Poetry, timeLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Judy Mathews – After Weeks Without Rain in Northwest Ohio

September 10, 2023September 7, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

"After Weeks Without Rain in Northwest Ohio" by poet Judy Mathews is an offering or a prayer to the natural blessings of a place.

Tagged nature, nature worship, offering, Poem, poet, Poetry, prayer, prayer beads, rain, stormLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Erika Seshadri – Eviction Notice

September 3, 2023August 24, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

As gently as the narrator of the poem relocates a spider, Erika Seshadri carefully places her quiet poem "Eviction Notice" at our feet.

Tagged ahimsa, Buddhism, Compassion, gentleness, nonviolence, Poem, poet, Poetry, ZenLeave a 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, Zen1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Steve Fay – turnings: a suite of poems

August 20, 2023August 15, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Steve Fay's "turnings: a suite of poems" is something special, a sequence of earthy fragments tumbling down the page like detritus.

Tagged Beat, Beat Poetry, Beat Zen, earthiness, nature, Poem, poet, poetic sequence, Poetry, sparseness, ZenLeave a comment
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Denise Levertov – The Secret

August 17, 2023August 17, 2023 Vanessa Able

The unintentional authoring of a line that reveals something profound to a reader, remains a mystery to the author herself.

Tagged authorship, creativity, Insight, meaning, mystery, Poem, Poetry, secretLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Adam Jon Miller – anthology

August 13, 2023August 8, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Adam Jon Miller offers readers a peek at a part of series of poems inspired by the ancient Chinese poets with his "anthology".

Tagged ancient, China, Chinese, Chinese philosophy, Chinese Poetry, Chinese Zen, history, mystery, Poem, poet, Poetry, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Liam Wholihan – Elegy for a Virgin-Born Bonnethead Shark Pup

August 6, 2023August 3, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Liam Wholihan offers a lament for several different things in his complex "Elegy for a Virgin-Born Bonnethead Shark Pup".

Tagged elegy, loss, miracle, miracles, miraculous birth, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, science, Science and Religion, virgin birthLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Dimitri Papadopoulos – burgundy and oak

July 23, 2023July 20, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Dimitri Papadopoulos returns us to innocence, nostalgia, and inspiration with his touching poem "burgundy and oak".

Tagged earth, innocence, Inspiration, muses, mythology, nostalgia, Poem, poet, Poetry, return, youth1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Kai-Lilly Karpman – On Want

July 16, 2023July 13, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Kai-Lilly Karpman unleashes another salvo against a violent patriarchy in her revelatory and melancholy "On Want".

Tagged femininity, feminism, gender, God, inequality, Longing, misogyny, patriarchy, Poem, poet, Poetry, want, womanhoodLeave a comment

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    Massachusetts poet Sheila Lynch-Benttinen's "Equations" is a work of heavy content, juxtaposed with simple elegance and sparseness.
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    "After Weeks Without Rain in Northwest Ohio" by poet Judy Mathews is an offering or a prayer to the natural blessings of a place.
  • Erika Seshadri – Eviction Notice
    As gently as the narrator of the poem relocates a spider, Erika Seshadri carefully places her quiet poem "Eviction Notice" at our feet.
  • Nancy Hamilton – The Door Opened
    Nancy Hamilton's enlightening poem "The Door Opened" revels in the glory of openness and emptiness, and overcoming illusions.
  • Steve Fay – turnings: a suite of poems
    Steve Fay's "turnings: a suite of poems" is something special, a sequence of earthy fragments tumbling down the page like detritus.
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