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Weekly Haiku

dewdrops: Autumn Week 2

October 16, 2025October 12, 2025 Trent Thomson

Autumn Week 2 BY DEBRA TRACY

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Featured Poetry

Samuel Gilpin – Do You Ever Have the Feeling That the World’s Gone and Left You Behind

April 20, 2025April 18, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Samuel Gilpin's poem "Do You Ever Have the Feeling That the World's Gone and Left You Behind" is a catalyst to conclusion and reality.

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Way-Seeking Mind

Sunset Meditation

November 8, 2021November 8, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY JOHN BRANTINGHAM Sunset comes late in High Sierra Summers, and by the time it does, I’m usually done for the day.

Tagged Awakening, beauty, centering, here and now, Meditation, mountains, nature, peace, presence, sunsetLeave a comment

TOP POSTS

  • Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
    Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
  • This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
    Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
  • Pablo Neruda - The Sea
    Pablo Neruda - The Sea
  • William Stafford's Looking Across the River
    William Stafford's Looking Across the River
  • Colleen Morton Busch - Tend
    Colleen Morton Busch - Tend
  • Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
    Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
  • T.S. Eliot - East Coker from Four Quartets
    T.S. Eliot - East Coker from Four Quartets
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay - "When You, That at This Moment Are to Me"
    Edna St. Vincent Millay - "When You, That at This Moment Are to Me"

- 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-

  • 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.
  • A Year of Kō: 11th Sekki
    11th Sekki poems by MADISON WILLIAMS, ELLIOT DIAMOND and COLEMAN DAVIS
  • Gene Hyde – Evening Meditation with Charles Lloyd on the Hi-Fi
    Poet Gene Hyde meditates on the transcendence of a day's collapse into dusk with his "Evening Meditation with Charles Lloyd on the Hi-Fi".
  • Mark J. Mitchell – Lazy Afternoon Poem
    Longtime San Francisco-based poet Mark J. Mitchell eases readers into the warm heavy heart of summer with his "Lazy Afternoon Poem".
  • A Year of Kō: 10th Sekki
    10th Sekki poems by JOSPEH PALMER, ELLIOT DIAMOND and COLEMAN DAVIS
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