Poetry
Indra's Falls
Experience a transformative & benevolent Uni-verse in Bertolino's timeless paean to Indra.
What Water Says
James Bertolino's poem guides the heart along the path to unity with nature, and through that unity, reaches the ultimate goal -- self-realization.
Impediment
Metaphysical poetry about the poet's love affair with the Great Goddess.
The Template
Read James Bertolino's Paean to the Blueprint of Immortality.
Planting Daffodils
The poet sees a mirror of the immortal Divine Juliet in the dying light of late August flowers, the promise of the eternal recurrence of new life arising from the ashes of our manifest density, a promise of rescue in some future configuration of life force energy, from our obtuse allegiance to destruction.
Mountain Lullaby
Another Love & Nature meditation from Jim Bertolino reprinted from his book, Snail River.
Any Kind of Sovereign
Jed Myers explores the illusion of the separate self as mental illness in this humorous new metaphysical poem.
Let Thanks
An expression of Giving Thanks as an act of Loving Life, in all of its complexities from Seattle poet Jed Myers.
Soft Belly, Open Heart
A study in the flow of a loving life lived awake.
Peace Enters the World Screaming Hot
Seattle poet and musician Jed Myers helps us hear searing sonic feedback from the core of the soul of the Peace Goddess and introduces us to the immortal, piercing poignancy of the global geophysical Peace Song.
Sequoia
James Bertolino's new poem records a wordless conversation converying the fiery spirit of the poet's heart's desires.
To Be Loved By Nature
James Bertolino's poem guides the heart along the path to unity with nature, and through that unity, reaches the ultimate goal -- self-realization.