Beloved, Thay — I sought your wisdom
because you knew pain and loss
and lived compassionately despite them
I walked in your footsteps
to witness your courage and love
a beautiful lotus in a world of mud
Through your words
a darkened soul found light
learned to live mindfully
compassionately with loving-kindness
You taught…
My theme for 2022 is to let go of things that do not serve me spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically. In Buddhist terms, this is called detachment. I’ve already written an essay on my journey from Acceptance in 2014 to Detachment this year.
So I won’t be rehashing any of…
Greetings PW Writers and Readers. The pub is open. The liquor and beer bar and the coffee and tea bar are both open. The center table is filled with snacks and goodies. Grab yourselves a drink and a snack, and get yourselves settled in. It’s time for the news and…
Hello, my Spiritual Travellers! I have curated two stories that resonate with my spirit from each of the five featured themes — Poetry, Spirituality, Life Lessons, Love, and Awareness. Please understand that this is not a ‘whose who of the best’ type of curation. All of your work is valuable…
I get caught up in the excitement
something new is on the horizon
and I want to make it my own
to put all of me into it —
and then reality rolls over me
a hundred-tonne boulder of facts:
24 hours in a day
8 to ten hours I should sleep
1 hour of meditation
3 hours…
Nature works through cycles
the sun and moon know when to rise and set
the ocean swells and flattens
If droughts make land unfertile
another paradise springs up elsewhere
Earthquakes destroy human constructs
and create new mountains
Volcanos’ lava fields expand and blow
new land appears, and the old implodes
Even weather ebbs and…
Welcome to Writers’ Sunday Prompt where you, our PW writers, get to prompt your fellow writers!
This week, we have an intriguing prompt. Write a poem, essay, or piece of fiction based on the following:
Tonight, the waning moon has an aura no camera could truly capture.
— Rose Malana
When using this prompt, please remember to mention Rose Malana and drop a link at the end of your story with this prompt’s URL. Hit enter after you’ve added the link and watch… magic happens!
How can you submit a prompt for Writers’ Sunday? Simply email it to me — ravynehawke@gmail.com no later than 11 pm CST on Fridays.
Be sure to use “Writers’ Sunday” in the Subject line of your email.
Have a great Sunday!
~Ravyne Hawke, EIC & Rose Malana, Line Editor
When I was a child, my only hobby was reading. I read about a hundred books every summer. These were mostly children’s books and then later on books appropriate for young tweens — this was the 70s and early 80s. By the time I was a teenager, I’d read every…
wisdom in your eyes
beacons ignite my spirit
our souls are as one
nocturnal creatures of prey
hearts synchronized by your flaunt
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As a pacifist, it still strikes me as odd that my animal spirit totems are all birds of prey, except for the…
I am one with the very Power that created me.
— LOUISE HAY
My mother raised us as Southern Baptists. Our pastor set the rules of how a family should act, what we should wear, what we could and could not watch on television and at the movies, what we…
