Rainer Maria Rilke Archives

The Potential of Isolating in Today’s World.

This slowdown has the potential to be the best thing that ever happened. For our families, our creativity, our world and ourselves.

art

The Growing Edge of a Poet.

An editor of my college poetry journal loved this new "depth" poet. He did not realize that I was drowning, and I could barely string words together...

poetry

Enter Darkness, Exit Light: Five Poems for Reading After the Reaping. {poetry}

I find that as I enter the hibernation period, I often stock up on words. Words that reflect the little light that is left as the twilight of the year arrives. Verses that remind me there is delight in dormancy and breadth in darkness.

wisdom

Walking out the Door.

I can't remember when it was, the exact day or time, not even the month or year, that I stood up during supper and walked out the door.

art

Night Cycles: Poetry For A Dark Night Of The Soul. {book preview}

awaken. revel in the heat of your own flames. the song begins. you are not alone.

troublemakers

It’s Mine, All Mine, All Deliciously Mine: 5 Keys To Living Your Wild.

And so I thought it was him, that I needed him, and that delusional lesson got flattened into my soul and I never knew it until I grew up, started doing some difficult inner work, and untangled this ancient, hallucinatory knot that got me stuck, and tied up and twisted into a piece of ...