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Tag: wild

Featured Poetry

Ellie Snyder – Of Herd

July 13, 2025July 10, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Montana poet Ellie Snyder takes readers into the rugged landscapes of the American West with her sturdy poem "Of Herd".

Tagged bison, community, herd, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, wild, wilderness, Wyoming, Yellowstone1 Comment
Featured Poetry

David Keplinger – Man Leaves Zen Garden Untended

January 5, 2025January 4, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

David Keplinger's beautifully-desolate "Man Leaves Zen Garden Untended" is a masterclass in sacrifice and rewilding.

Tagged Buddhism, Death, loss, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, rebirth, rewilding, wild, wilderness, wildness, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Samantha Malay – Harvest

November 17, 2024November 14, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Samantha Malay's impeccable "Harvest" is a poem cultivated in the wild liminal space between seed and bounty.

Tagged growth, harvest, liminal space, loss, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, roots, wild, wildnessLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Beth Gordon – The Crone Humming

September 1, 2024August 29, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

We welcome September with poet Beth Gordon's prose poem "The Crone Humming", a wild hymnal for the unknown and unspeakable.

Tagged age, aging, crone, music, Poem, poet, Poetry, Song, wild, wildnessLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Michael Grimwood – God Ecology

May 28, 2023May 25, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Michael Grimwood takes readers on a journey into divine realms of leaf, blossom, and holiness with his imaginative poem "God Ecology".

Tagged adventure, fantasy, fauna, flora, God, growth, holiness, magic, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, wild, wildnessLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Pamela Denyes – The Fog of October

October 24, 2021October 28, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

The Fog of October is Pamela Denyes' call to the wild, an invitation to look beneath the surface of the mundane--to the mysticism beyond the veil.

Tagged autumn, awareness, change, growth, mystic, mysticism, nature, nature writing, path, Poem, Poetry, wild, wildnessLeave a comment

TOP POSTS

  • This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
    Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer - Self-Compassion
    Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer - Self-Compassion
  • What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
    What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
  • Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
    Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
  • William Stafford's Last Poem
    William Stafford's Last Poem
  • Shaomei Yu - The Closed Door
    Shaomei Yu - The Closed Door
  • Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
    Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
  • Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer - For When We Greet Each Other
    Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer - For When We Greet Each Other

- BOOK BITS -

  • Don’t Waste Suffering: Ramiro López Larroy on Opening the Doors of Liberation
    How can we use the things that give us difficulty in our lives to learn and grow, rather than avoiding them, or trying to push them away?
  • 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.


- POETRY-

  • Shaomei Yu – The Closed Door
    Chinese-American poet Shaomei Yu reflects on loss and transition with Zen-like sparseness in her poem "The Closed Door".
  • Claudia Kessel – Samsara
    In her epic "Samsara", poet Claudia Kessel leans the ancient tenants of Buddhism against the gritty reality of the 21st Century.
  • A Year of Kō: 16th Sekki
    16th Sekki poems by COLEMAN DAVIS, MADISON WILLIAMS and SHAOMEI YU
  • Bob Rama – Ascetic Aesthetics
    Translator and poet Bob Rama shines a little candlelight on ascetic renunciation in his pleasingly-titled poem "Ascetic Aesthetics".
  • Emily Tong – Girlhood Ghazal
    Using the ancient poetic form of the ghazal, Asian-American poet Emily Tong searches for home in her "Girlhood Ghazal".
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