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Featured Poetry

Matt Pasca – Traitor Psalm

January 25, 2026January 24, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

Long Island poet Matt Pasca gives it all up and at the same time transforms us in his engaging poem "Traitor Psalm".

Tagged birds, Children, parenthood, past, Poem, poet, Poetry, present, time, transformation, WritingLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Sheila Lynch-Benttinen – I Ramble the Bog

November 23, 2025November 22, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Sheila Lynch-Benttinen revels in all the natural majesty of simply being present with her poem "I Ramble the Bog".

Tagged awareness, being present, environment, nature, nature poem, nature poetry, Poem, poet, Poetry, present, wildernessLeave a comment
All About Love

The Gift

September 24, 2024September 24, 2024 Vanessa Able

Love, hope, and reality; are woven and wrapped together. BY NANCY FRANCESE

Tagged cancer, chemotherapy, Children, family, Gift, giving, grief, illness, loss, love, presentLeave a comment
Erich Von Hungen
Featured

Erich von Hungen – The Moment

May 21, 2020May 21, 2020 Vanessa Able

The pinpoint perspective of the present moment can feel so sharp but ultimately always impossible to fathom and out of our reach. As Erich von Hungen writes, it is simultaneously hard and soft, early and late, tiny and all-encompassing 'like a pocket-sized Big Bang.'

Tagged duration, Emptiness, impermanence, moment, nothingness, present, Silence, time, transienceLeave a comment

TOP POSTS

  • This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • A Year of Kō: 18th Sekki
    A Year of Kō: 18th Sekki
  • Kahlil Gibran - Fear
    Kahlil Gibran - Fear
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
    Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
  • Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
    Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
  • What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
    What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
  • The Ten Paramis by Stefania Russell
    The Ten Paramis by Stefania Russell
  • Anthony Russell White - The Faith of Leaping
    Anthony Russell White - The Faith of Leaping
  • Philip Booth - First Lesson
    Philip Booth - First Lesson

- BOOK BITS -

  • Chop Wood, Carry Water: Scott Berkun on Finding Amazement in Ordinary Life
    A classic Zen koan shows that true presence isn't an escape from the ordinary work - and delight - of being human.
  • Don’t Waste Suffering: Ramiro López Larroy on Opening the Doors of Liberation
    How can we use the things that give us difficulty in our lives to learn and grow, rather than avoiding them, or trying to push them away?
  • 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.


- POETRY-

  • A Year of Kō: 18th Sekki
    18th Sekki poems by COLEMAN DAVIS, SHAOMEI YU and MADISON WILLIAMS
  • Paul Ilechko – Zinc
    In the sparing verbiage of his poem "Zinc", poet Paul Ilechko purifies the chaos and complications into a singular simplicity.
  • Alison Luterman – Canoe
    In her poem "Canoe," Alison Luterman explores how luminous memories anchor us into the marvellous moments of our lives.
  • Nathan Hassall – Write a simple poem, my wife said, so I wrote a short one
    Poet Nathan Hassall's "Write a simple poem, my wife said, so I wrote a short one" transcends the small confines of its verbiage into the enormity of universal divinity.
  • A Year of Kō: 17th Sekki
    17th Sekki poems by BOB RAMA, COLEMAN DAVIS and SHAOMEI YU
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