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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, Poetry

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

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- 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-

  • 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".
  • A Year of Kō: 5th Sekki
    5th Sekki poems by JOSEPH PALMER, SHERRY WEAVER SMITH and COLEMAN DAVIS

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