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Featured Poetry

Constance Clark – Why I Stop & Stare

April 26, 2026April 25, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Constance Clark treats readers to springtime interconnectedness and abundance with her masterful "Why I Stop & Stare".

Tagged abundance, ko, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, rebirth, renewal, sekki, spring, springtime1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Travis Stephens – Spring is the Time of Horses

February 22, 2026February 20, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

Californian tugboat captain and poet Travis Stephens smothers readers in the cold grit of resurrection in his "Spring is the Time of Horses".

Tagged earth, earthiness, growth, nature, Olav Hauge, Poem, poet, Poetry, rebirth, rejuvenation, resurrection, spring, springtimeLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

David Keplinger – Man Leaves Zen Garden Untended

January 5, 2025January 4, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

David Keplinger's beautifully-desolate "Man Leaves Zen Garden Untended" is a masterclass in sacrifice and rewilding.

Tagged Buddhism, Death, loss, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, rebirth, rewilding, wild, wilderness, wildness, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Sarah Karowski – Clumsy

July 7, 2024July 5, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

In Sarah Karowski's imaginative prose poem "Clumsy", we are witness to beauty and magic blooming from the grittiness of hurt.

Tagged flowers, growth, healing, nature, pain, Poem, poet, Poetry, rebirth, rejuvenation, Spiritual GrowthLeave a comment
TS Eliot
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T.S. Eliot – The Journey of the Magi

December 24, 2021December 24, 2021 Vanessa Able

The Journey of the Magi was a poem that T.S. Eliot wrote shortly after his own conversion to the Anglican faith.

Tagged advent, birth, christmas, conversion, Death, jesus christ, Poetry, rebirthLeave a comment
GK Chesterton
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G.K. Chesterton – The Convert

February 10, 2021February 10, 2021 Vanessa Able

G.K. Chesterton's 'The Convert' describes the aftermath of a transition that has taken the poet from an upside-down world onto a shining white road of peace and clarity.

Tagged Catholicism, clarity, conversion, epiphany, peace, Poetry, rebirth, transformation3 Comments
Jordan Kisner
Book Bits

Ordinary Devotions

November 13, 2020November 13, 2020 Vanessa Able

Jordan Kisner's essay titled, 'Soon This Space Will Be Too Small', is a short musing about circular themes and thoughts that can revolve around a whole lifetime.

Tagged Belief, Dying, growth, ideas, rebirth, repetition1 Comment
DH Lawrence
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D. H. Lawrence – Phoenix

October 14, 2020October 14, 2020 Vanessa Able

D. H. Lawrence asks what is necessary for true change, finding his answer in the legend of the phoenix, who has to be burnt thoroughly and burnt while alive in order to regenerate herself again.

Tagged change, cycles, destruction, letting go, mythology, Phoenix, Poetry, rebirth, regeneration, wholeheartedness1 Comment

TOP POSTS

  • This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
    Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
    What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
  • Rebecca Solnit's Blue of Distance
    Rebecca Solnit's Blue of Distance
  • Regina Gort-Betances - (Mother) Bear
    Regina Gort-Betances - (Mother) Bear
  • Lucille Clifton - why some people be mad at me sometimes
    Lucille Clifton - why some people be mad at me sometimes
  • Billy Collins - The Dead
    Billy Collins - The Dead
  • Letting Go of Hope - Pema Chodron
    Letting Go of Hope - Pema Chodron
  • Issa - This Dewdrop World
    Issa - This Dewdrop World

- 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-

  • Francis Weeks – Taho Buddha
    "Taho Buddha" by poet Francis Weeks is a minimalist poem which explores a pivotal moment in Nichiren Buddhism.
  • 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".

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