Poem from Ukraine

Bitburg – September 2022   Grandma Ida sent letters and money to her family in Poland ― or was it Ukraine? Until the letters came back stamped, Undelivered. The addressees had been delivered, and the entire town disappeared.   In Bitburg, last fall, her grandson paid a visit to the well festooned section of cemetery […]

Practical Theopoetics – Using Poetry as Process

Please join Rev. Jen Miller for an interactive and experiential presentation on a practical application and use of poetry as a tool in spiritual care work as a professional chaplain. In her presentation, she will draw materials from her latest publication, A Time to Care, Supporting Superheroes Through the Seasons (2021).

The Hill We Climb

When day comes, we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade? The loss we carry. A sea we must wade. We braved the belly of the beast. We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace, and the norms and notions of what “just” is isn’t always justice. And yet the dawn is […]

“Upwelling” – Peacemaker Chat with Lorraine Padden

Please join our Executive Director Geoff Shōun O’Keeffe, in a Peacemaker Chat on Facebook Live with Lorraine Padden, an award-winning haiku poet, dancer, singer, and non-profit leader who is also an active member and student of the Zen Peacemaker Order. Lorraine will share some of her latest poetry from “Upwelling,” a collection-in-progress that arose in response to […]

Rekindling Courage

A new Hanukkah Poem, by Jena Schwartz Rekindling Courage It’s no wonder my favorite rituals are simple. Taking out the tiny birch tree with its bright lights from the pantry, the menorah’s royal bird pair, the little bowl for chocolates, the dreidel-shaped holder of smaller dreidels for spinning in the night.   It’s no wonder […]

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 the way of indifferent suns To a destination and imperative that we learn A brave and startling truth And when we come to it To the day of peacemaking When we release our fingers From […]

The Call

by Kineret Ando Yardena Is it possible that not every call is a call to completion? Is it possible to finish something walking away, a prism of light streaming behind you, with grief for all you’ve left behind? Sometimes you are called to the mountain for the meeting that needed to happen along the way. […]