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Tag: Spirituality

Featured Poetry

Susan Coultrap-McQuin – Sunday Morning at the Cabin Up North

March 26, 2023March 23, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Susan Coultrap-McQuin shows us nature's sacredness with her poem "Sunday Morning at the Cabin Up North".

Tagged blessing, divinity, holiness, nature, nature writing, peace, Poem, poet, Poetry, serenity, Spirituality, Tranquility, Zen1 Comment
Virginia Woolf
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‘When the Lights of Health Go Down’- Virginia Woolf on Being Ill

December 27, 2022December 27, 2022 Vanessa Able

Virginia Woolf on our relationship to illness, its potential spiritual value, and the mysterious intelligence of the body.

Tagged Body, health, illness, interruption, language, Literature, Mind, perception, SpiritualityLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Kimberly Phinney – Body of Work

October 9, 2022October 9, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

In her poem "Body of Work", Kimberly Phinney laments the distance which has been imposed between us and our earth, spiritually and tangibly.

Tagged divinity, earth, loss, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, separation, Spirituality, timeLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Brandon James O’Neil – City Adhan

August 28, 2022September 1, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Hinged on the image of Muslim cab driver finding a moment of serenity in communion with God in the chaos of New York City, Brandon James O'Neil's "City Adhan" offers readers that same serenity.

Tagged faith, God, New York City, Poem, poet, Poetry, prayer, religion, Spirituality, urban lifeLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Guadalupe Salgado Partida – Nearing Heaven

July 31, 2022July 28, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Guadalupe Salgado Partida, with her poem "Nearing Heaven", tilts our eyes skyward, just as the eyes of the poem's narrator when she asks her father about God.

Tagged faith, father, fatherhood, God, heaven, Poem, poet, Poetry, Sky, Spirituality, TravelLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Brigitte Goetze – How We Come to Understand or the Heart, the Right Brain, and the Left Brain Muse about Science’s Most Famous Equation

June 5, 2022June 3, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet and retired biologist Brigitte Goetze digs into her scientific background to offer readers something beautiful and wholly original.

Tagged beauty, biology, brain, Heart, love, Poem, poet, Poetry, science, Science and Religion, SpiritualityLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Jenna Wysong Filbrun – Church

September 26, 2021September 24, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Jenna Wysong Filbrun's Church is an ode to nature, life, and belonging in a time of spiritual upheaval, an ode to the wilderness, which was humanity's first place of worship.

Tagged belonging, church, divine, divinity, God, life, nature, Poem, Poetry, Spirituality, wilderness1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Katie Bowers – Even Though I Am Weary of Church Pews, She Is Not

August 15, 2021August 13, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Written during the peak of the pandemic, Katie Bowers' poem touches on the challenges of faith and belief, parenting and childhood.

Tagged Belief, blessing, chakra, childhood, Children, faith, innocence, openness, parenthood, piousness, Poem, Poetry, Spirituality1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Angelic Armendariz – Nonbeliever

July 8, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Angelic Armendariz, with her poem "Nonbeliever", gives readers a brief but poignant piece with three distinct stages in questioning faith, spirituality, and God.

Tagged Belief, Believer, faith, Faith and practice, God, growth, loss, religion, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality, traumaLeave a comment
Raymond P. Hammond
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Raymond P. Hammond – F Train

July 19, 2020July 17, 2020 Vanessa Able

"While I often found the emergence from the dark of the tunnel shocking, as my eyes would adjust and I would look forward and skyward, I always found this image to be comforting, reassuring."

Tagged Darkness, emergence, religion, Spirituality, transcendence, zoetrope1 Comment

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