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Tag: routine

Featured Poetry

Julia Roberts – Pantry Door

June 21, 2026June 20, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

With Zen simplicity and sparseness, Texas poet Julia Roberts expertly displays routine and familiarity with her brief poem "Pantry Door".

Tagged daily life, domesticity, familiarity, home, Poem, poet, Poetry, routine, Routines, Stillness, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Swetha Amit – The Tea Prayer

November 13, 2022November 9, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Swetha Amit's "The Tea Prayer" is a meditation on the routine and ritualistic simplicity of making and savoring a cup of hot green tea.

Tagged green tea, Meditation, Poem, poet, Poetry, routine, senses, sensory, tea, Tea Ceremony, tea preperationLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Martine van Bijlert – this life we built

November 7, 2021November 5, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Martine van Bijlert's poem, this life we built, is a snapshot of domesticity and contentment, but with a tense uncertainty of the future.

Tagged contentment, daily life, domesticity, enough, home, life, life is enough, Loneliness, Poem, poet, Poetry, routine, satisfactionLeave a 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
  • The Ten Paramis by Stefania Russell
    The Ten Paramis by Stefania Russell
  • Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
    Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
  • William Stafford's Looking Across the River
    William Stafford's Looking Across the River
  • Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
    Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
  • David Whyte - The Bell and the Blackbird
    David Whyte - The Bell and the Blackbird
  • Gurdjieff and The Two Rivers
    Gurdjieff and The Two Rivers
  • Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
    Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone

- 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-

  • 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
  • Shaomei Yu – The Closed Door
    Chinese-American poet Shaomei Yu reflects on loss and transition with Zen-like sparseness in her poem "The Closed Door".
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