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Tag: prose poem

Featured Poetry

Max Nobis – Sweetness Defined

June 15, 2025June 14, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Cleveland poet Max Nobis unspools an ode to Helen, a figure of radiance and mirth, an avatar worthy of adoration.

Tagged Compassion, Kindness, Light, love, motherhood, ode, Poem, poet, Poetry, prose poemLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Aeris Walker – Good and Wild and Wonderful

February 12, 2023February 23, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Aeris Walker's "Good and Wild and Wonderful" is a prose poem of vast enormity, of the creation of all things.

Tagged beauty, birth, Creation, Genesis, life, love, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, prose poemLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Lina Buividavičiūtė – A Housewife’s Opus Magnum

October 30, 2022October 27, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Lithuanian poet Lina Buividavičiūtė's prose poem "A Housewife's Opus Magnum" reveals a holiness discovered in simplicity and domesticity.

Tagged domesticity, God, holiness, Meditation, Poem, poet, Poetry, prose poem, Simplicity, work, ZenLeave a comment

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- BOOK BITS -

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    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?
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    Rather than signifying a lack or a void, Thich Nhat Hanh took emptiness to be a state of inextricable and fundamental interconnectedness.
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- POETRY-

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  • Paul Ilechko – Zinc
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  • 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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