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Tag: togetherness

Featured Poetry

Mathieu Cailler – After the Last Human Died

December 22, 2024December 20, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Mathieu Cailler's prose poem "After the Last Human Died" is in fact an ode to togetherness and reconnection.

Tagged connection, Death, destruction, healing, humanity, life, loss, nature, oneness, Poem, poet, Poetry, reconnection, togetherness1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Matthew Kohut – Letter to St. John of the Cross

February 19, 2023February 16, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

In Matthew Kohut's "Letter to St. John of the Cross", nine concise lines are illuminated with unity, to the canticle of "i dissolving".

Tagged community, growth, mysticism, Poem, poet, Poetry, together, togetherness, unification, UnityLeave a comment
All About Love

On Being Plan B

September 23, 2021September 23, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY ELIZABETH BLUE The car that had been broken into wasn't mine. It wasn't his, either. Technically it belonged to his girlfriend – his primary partner of fifteen years.

Tagged ambiguity, difficulty, friendship, Longing, love, monogamy, polyamory, relationship, togetherness, triangulation1 Comment
Gary Snyder
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Gary Snyder – For the Children

July 1, 2021June 28, 2021 Vanessa Able

Gary Snyder's poem on the healing and enlightenment we need to find as a race in order to once again locate ourselves in earth's valleys and pastures.

Tagged ecology, environment, flowers, hope, nature, Poetry, togetherness6 Comments
Ellen Skilton
Featured Poetry

Ellen Skilton – Like Every Good Thing

June 13, 2021June 13, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Ellen Skilton's poem offers poignant words that touch on a universal feeling experienced by humanity in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic - the sacredness of human interaction.

Tagged community, connection, COVID, COVID-19, gather, holiness, humanity, isolation, pandemic, togethernessLeave a comment

TOP POSTS

  • This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
    Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • Barbara Kingsolver - How to Do Absolutely Nothing
    Barbara Kingsolver - How to Do Absolutely Nothing
  • Walt Whitman - O Me! O Life!
    Walt Whitman - O Me! O Life!
  • Pablo Neruda - The Sea
    Pablo Neruda - The Sea
  • How We Live Is How We Die: Pema Chödrön on Preparing for Death Here and Now
    How We Live Is How We Die: Pema Chödrön on Preparing for Death Here and Now
  • Shitou's Song of the Grass-Roof Hermitage
    Shitou's Song of the Grass-Roof Hermitage
  • The Dexterous Butcher - Zhuangzi
    The Dexterous Butcher - Zhuangzi
  • The Ground is Always Shifting - Pema Chodron
    The Ground is Always Shifting - Pema Chodron

- 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-

  • Lawrence Bridges – Trees of Ojai
    Poet Lawrence Bridges once again shows readers of The Dewdrop how Zen simplicity and awareness can be a sacred thing.
  • A Year of Kō: 7th Sekki
    7th Sekki poems by JOSEPH PALMER, FRAN SCOTT and ELLIOT DIAMOND
  • Francis Weeks – Taho Buddha
    "Taho Buddha" by poet Francis Weeks is a minimalist poem which explores a pivotal moment in Nichiren Buddhism.
  • 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

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