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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Tag Archives: poetry

Parenting Advice from The Prophet

May 5, 2024

Your children are not your children.They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you …

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Photos & Poetry to Celebrate Earth Day

April 22, 2024

From “The Shape of Fire” by Theodore Roethke To have the whole air!—The light, the full sunComing down on the …

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Travelers on a Cosmic Journey

March 25, 2024

We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies andwhirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal.We have …

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Joy Not Shared, Dies Young

March 11, 2024

A lovely reminder from Anne Sexton to share our joys–the simple pleasures of life. So I’m sharing with you her …

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A Kind of Love: How the Cup Holds Tea

January 23, 2024

I’ve been thinking about this poem ever since I found it on The Vale of the Soul-Making. The way ordinary …

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Blessings–For the Ear, For the Eye, & For You

November 20, 2023

Can’t you hear the laughter of the children, the slap of running feet, the rush and tumble of the waves? …

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The Poetry That Saves Us

November 12, 2023

During these troubled times, the wars raging in Gaza and Ukraine, when our hearts are broken and we feel so …

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The Desire for a Higher Lovemaking

October 2, 2023

I was struck by the phrase “a desire for a higher lovemaking” when reading Goethe’s poem “The Holy Longing.” It …

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Vast Emptiness, Vastly Full

August 28, 2023

There are a few refrains that I turn to again and again when I want to get a clearer sense …

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Seamless Being, A Poem

August 20, 2023

Seamless Being I’m not sure what there is to say anymore about being me,Who I am-was-will-be.We flow together seamlesslyWithout end. …

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After sailing around the world in a small boat for six years, I came to appreciate how tiny and insignificant we humans appear in our natural and untamed surroundings, living always on the edge of the wild, into which we are embedded even while being that thing which sets us apart. Now living again on the edge of the wild in a home that borders a nature preserve, I am re-exploring what it means to be human in a more than human world.

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