This is Not a Poem

By Fred LaMotte

Just a murmur whose poor thoughts won't reach the edge of the page.

4:00 – FREE

The Journey

With Yi Le and Alan Watts

Just in the same way as you don't focus your attention

Pandemic

By Lynn Ungar

What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath—the most sacred of times?

The Poetry of the World

By Shawn Radcliffe

“Some of his poems are as if he’s consoling God for what’s happened to his creation”

Medicine of the Real

By Chameli Ardagh

What a kindness she showers upon me, not letting me skip any steps, or leave not even one stone unturned.

2:00 – FREE

The Laughing Heart: Charles Bukowski

Your life is your life, don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.

The Path of Unbecoming

By Maya Luna

It's okay not to have New Year's resolutions

Taste Your Life Now

By Ellen Emmet

There is a kind of thinking which keeps life separate from herself

Come Solstice Come

By Rainer Maria Rilke

All will come again into its strength: the fields undivided, the waters undammed,

When in the Soul of the Serene Disciple

By Thomas Merton

With no more Fathers to imitate, Poverty is a success

Illness as Companion

By John O'Donohue

We never value or even see some things in our lives until we are just about to lose them.

Widening Circles

By Rainer Maria Rilke

Go to the Limits of Your Longing

By Rainer Maria Rilke

God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night.

A Liturgy of Light

By John O'Donohue

When suffering comes, we feel panic and fear. Frightened, we want to hide.

Sometimes a Wild God

By Tom Hirons

Sometimes a wild god comes to the table. He is awkward and does not know the ways

Pause for a Moment

Don’t try and be “spiritual.” Don’t seek any particular state or feeling.

Unending Love

By Rabindranath Tagore

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…

Love After Love

By Derek Walcott

Why Scurry About Looking for the Truth?

By Lao-Tsu

It vibrates in every thing and every not-thing, right off the tip of your nose.

2:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Wound of Love

With Maya Luna

Today I Gave Up on Healing my Trauma

Guidepost of Silent Illumination

By Master Hongzhi

Silent and serene, forgetting words, bright clarity appears before you.

One Must Dance Naked

By Fred LaMotte

You wear your silence as a black silk gown, woven infinitesimal, every thread a letter of your lover's name.

OUR LADY. OUR FRIEND.

We stand on sacred ground today. Perhaps even more sacred than yesterday’s ground.

Sojourns in the Parallel World

By Denise Levertov

We live our lives of human passions, cruelties, dreams, concepts, crimes and the exercise of virtue in and beside a world devoid of our preoccupations...