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Tag: spiritual

Featured Poetry

Topher Shields – Toolbox: Inherited Instruments

September 14, 2025September 13, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

"Toolbox: Inherited Instruments" is a six-sequence poem of raw ancestral sacredness wielded by Aotearoa (New Zealand) poet Topher Shields.

Tagged ancestors, ancestral, ancestry, legacy, memory, Poem, poet, Poetry, Queer, queer poetry, ritual, sacredness, spiritual, SpiritualityLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Pamela Wax – Dear Mayor

August 31, 2025August 30, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

The prose poem "Dear Mayor" by Massachusetts poet Pamela Wax immerses us in layers of spiritual practice, grief, loss, and longing.

Tagged balance, Death, Devotion, grief, Longing, loss, Meditation, Poem, poet, Poetry, spiritual, Spiritual Practice, SpiritualityLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Betsy Fogelman Tighe – My Spiritual Practice

October 29, 2023October 26, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Through the lens of nature, poet Betsy Fogelman Tighe reveals a practical and inclusive form of worship in "My Spiritual Practice".

Tagged exploration, faith, Interconnectedness, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, religion, spiritual, Spiritual Practice, worship2 Comments
Featured Poetry

Ryan Diaz – A Vow of Poverty

October 1, 2023September 28, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

With the juxtaposition of piousness and sacredness to desire and indulgence, Ryan Diaz surprises us with his "A Vow of Poverty".

Tagged carnal, desire, erotic, holiness, lust, piousness, Poem, poet, Poetry, sex, spiritualLeave a comment

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    T.S. Eliot - East Coker from Four Quartets
  • The Path That Leads Into the Mountains
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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-

  • Roshi Joan Halifax and The Way of Haiku
    A collection of haiku offered by Roshi Joan Halifax.
  • A Year of Kō: 3rd Sekki
    3rd Sekki poems by COLEMAN DAVIS, LAILA BRAHMBHATT, WILLIAM KILGORE
  • Gary Keenan – Big Day
    Writing from the Colombian Andes, poet Gary Keenan's poem "Big Day" is a chaotic cacophony collapsing into the soft rosy amber of stillness.
  • Roderick Wilson – Practicing Resurrection
    New York poet Roderick Wilson wipes the snow from the threadbare conclusion of wintertime, on the cusp of transition.
  • A Year of Kō: 2nd Sekki
    2nd Sekki poems by FRANCES SCOTT, IRENE APOSTOLERIS and SARAH GILL.
 

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