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Featured Poetry

Dimitri Papadopoulos – burgundy and oak

July 23, 2023December 5, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Dimitri Papadopoulos returns us to innocence, nostalgia, and inspiration with his touching poem "burgundy and oak".

Tagged earth, innocence, Inspiration, muses, mythology, nostalgia, Poem, poet, Poetry, return, youth1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Joshua C. Allen – The White Oak Peninsula

February 20, 2022February 17, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Joshua C. Allen's The White Oak Peninsula is an ode to a place, a nostalgic discourse into earthy wildness and days of youth and adventure that many of us can relate to.

Tagged childhood, friendship, nature, nature writing, nostalgia, Poem, poet, Poetry, wilderness, wildness, youth2 Comments
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Way-Seeking Mind

Gully and Bayou

January 18, 2022January 25, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY NEIL ELLIS ORTS This farm boy wandered the acres of woods and explored the gully. I sat under the cedar that grew on a high bank, roots exposed, waiting for the right number of rains to let go.

Tagged Awakening, biography, childhood, God, home, memory, youthLeave a comment
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Seamus Heaney – Wheels Within Wheels

August 25, 2021September 2, 2021 Vanessa Able

This very personal and autobiographical poem of Seamus Heaney's harks back to the objects and curiosities of his youth.

Tagged curiosity, enough, enquiry, Poetry, questions, rotation, wheels, wonder, youthLeave a comment

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- 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
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  • 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
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- POETRY-

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    It's not without harshness and brutal honesty that poet Jonathan Jones lays out all the discomforts of reality in his poem "man in the rain".
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    12th Sekki poems by JOYCE RITCHIE, ELLIOT DIAMOND and COLEMAN DAVIS
  • Nathan Bakken – How to Be a Theologian
    Poet and theologian Nathan Bakken writes a three-part discourse on working in faith with his poem "How to Be a Theologian".
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