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Featured Poetry

Stacey Elza – To Build a Bow

May 21, 2023May 20, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Juxtaposing the antagonistic nature of humanity with the protective and peaceful side, poet Stacey Elza offers readers "To Build a Bow".

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Mother and Poet

March 10, 2021March 10, 2021 Vanessa Able

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 'Mother and Poet' is a lamentation of a mother's grief over losing her only two sons in battle.

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Muriel Rukeyser
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Muriel Rukeyser – Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars)

January 20, 2021January 20, 2021 Vanessa Able

Muriel Rukeyser's poem about how we stay connected to one another, making love and awakening, through the noise of and distraction of politics and war.

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TOP POSTS

  • Issa - This Dewdrop World
    Issa - This Dewdrop World
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • Letting Go of Hope - Pema Chodron
    Letting Go of Hope - Pema Chodron
  • Joanne Alfano - Hope
    Joanne Alfano - Hope
  • What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
    What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
  • Pablo Neruda - The Sea
    Pablo Neruda - The Sea
  • This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • Mary Oliver - Wild Geese
    Mary Oliver - Wild Geese
  • 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
  • Lucille Clifton - why some people be mad at me sometimes
    Lucille Clifton - why some people be mad at me sometimes

- BOOK BITS -

  • Tangen Harada Roshi
    Seeing Into the Reality of Emptiness
    Zen Master Tangen Harada Roshi on how understanding the truth of emptiness can reveal Original Mind.
  • Susan Bauer-Wu
    The Problem With Business As Usual – On Interconnectedness and the Climate Crisis
    Inspired by the work of the Dalai Lama and Greta Thunberg, Susan Bauer-Wu's book is her personal expression of concern for the earth.
  • Orhan Pamuk
    Orhan Pamuk on Writing By Hand
    Orhan Pamuk's hand-writing habit hasn't budged, despite the conventions of our time.
  • Pema Chodron
    How We Live Is How We Die: Pema Chödrön on Preparing for Death Here and Now
    Pema Chödrön on what the Tibetan approach to living and dying can teach us about liberation in the present moment.
  • Barbara Brown Taylor
    The Path that Goes Nowhere – Barbara Brown Taylor on the Practice of Labyrinth Walking
    Barbara Brown Taylor reflects on her own experience of Labyrinth-walking and the significance of the path without a destination.


- POETRY-

  • Joanne Alfano – Hope
    Positively radiant, Joanne Alfano's "Hope" is a poem that crashes through darkness with its opening lines like a clarion call.
  • Sheila Lynch-Benttinen – Equations
    Massachusetts poet Sheila Lynch-Benttinen's "Equations" is a work of heavy content, juxtaposed with simple elegance and sparseness.
  • Judy Mathews – After Weeks Without Rain in Northwest Ohio
    "After Weeks Without Rain in Northwest Ohio" by poet Judy Mathews is an offering or a prayer to the natural blessings of a place.
  • Erika Seshadri – Eviction Notice
    As gently as the narrator of the poem relocates a spider, Erika Seshadri carefully places her quiet poem "Eviction Notice" at our feet.
  • Nancy Hamilton – The Door Opened
    Nancy Hamilton's enlightening poem "The Door Opened" revels in the glory of openness and emptiness, and overcoming illusions.
 

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