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Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Poetry

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer – For When We Greet Each Other

November 21, 2024November 25, 2024 Vanessa Able

A poem about seeing and honoring what is divine in others and in ourselves, as though all our lives depended on it.

Tagged Affection, beauty, belonging, Care, friendship, greeting, love, offering, Poetry, ritual, safety, serviceLeave a comment
Anthony Russell White
Poetry

Anthony Russell White – The Faith of Leaping

July 22, 2024July 23, 2024 Sam Shapiro

White's poem encourages us to embrace a larger trust in life; to risk uncertainty for the precious reward of life fully lived.

Tagged Courage, embracing life, faith, full living, leaping, risk, safety, trust1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Wendy Blaxland – Midwinter fire

December 10, 2023December 7, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Prolific Australian writer Wendy Blaxland presents the sparseness of three warm lines to ward off the boreal chill in her poem "Midwinter fire".

Tagged contentment, Fire, flames, history, midwinter, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, safety, warmth, winter, winter solstice, wintertimeLeave a comment
Jocelyn Ulevicus
Featured

Jocelyn Ulevicus – A Home Safe to Call Home

May 28, 2020May 28, 2020 Vanessa Able

What happens when home is not a place of safety, but a locus of loneliness and even danger and violence? Jocelyn Ulevicus' poem describes a solitude and a fear around isolation wrapped in memories of past violence, and explores what finally settling into a sense of safety really means.

Tagged home, isolation, Loneliness, memory, Poetry, safety, Violence1 Comment

TOP POSTS

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    Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • Lucille Clifton - why some people be mad at me sometimes
    Lucille Clifton - why some people be mad at me sometimes
  • T.S. Eliot - East Coker from Four Quartets
    T.S. Eliot - East Coker from Four Quartets
  • Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
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  • Pesha Gertler - The Healing Time
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  • Rebecca Solnit's Blue of Distance
    Rebecca Solnit's Blue of Distance
  • Jonathan Jones - man in the rain
    Jonathan Jones - man in the rain
  • Dana Gioia - Summer Storm
    Dana Gioia - Summer Storm

- 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-

  • Jonathan Jones – man in the rain
    It's not without harshness and brutal honesty that poet Jonathan Jones lays out all the discomforts of reality in his poem "man in the rain".
  • A Year of Kō: 12th Sekki
    12th Sekki poems by JOYCE RITCHIE, ELLIOT DIAMOND and COLEMAN DAVIS
  • Nathan Bakken – How to Be a Theologian
    Poet and theologian Nathan Bakken writes a three-part discourse on working in faith with his poem "How to Be a Theologian".
  • Richard Pettigrew – Drunken Flora
    Surfer-poet of Hawaii, Richard Pettigrew, once again swings by The Dewdrop, this time with a botanical tragedy "Drunken Flora".
  • Constance Clark – This Heat Sculpts a Spell
    Allow the summer heat of Constance Clark's "This Heat Sculpts a Spell" soak into you, as her poem unfolds its petals as an ode to connection.
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