“Rules for Writing Practice” by Natalie Goldberg
Natalie Goldberg’s writing practice transformed my own writing. Gone are the days of staring at a cursor blinking on a blank document. This practice doesn’t…
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Nicholas Tippins
The Wheelwright and the Woodworker: Two Stories of Following the Tao
How does one say the unsayable? How does one teach what cannot be taught? The ancient taoist masters are perhaps the most grounded of all…
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“My life has been the poem I would have writ” by Henry David Thoreau
My life has been the poem I would have writ But I could not both live and utter it. -Henry David Thoreau Commentary “My life…
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“Everything Is Waiting For You” by David Whyte
Everything Is Waiting For You After Derek Mahon Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were…
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“Remember” by Joy Harjo
Remember Remember the sky that you were born under, know each of the star’s stories. Remember the moon, know who she is. Remember the sun’s…
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“Lost” by David Wagoner
Lost Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as…
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“The Second Coming” by W.B. Yeats: A Modern Mystical Analysis
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon…
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“A Brave and Startling Truth” – A Fierce Feminine Poem for Our Time
“A Brave and Startling Truth” by Maya Angelou We, this people, on a small and lonely planet Traveling through casual space Past aloof stars, across…
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“Auguries of Innocence” by William Blake
Auguries of Innocence To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of…
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“Swan” by Mary Oliver
Swan Did you too see it, drifting, all night, on the black river? Did you see it in the morning, rising into the silvery air…
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