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July 28, 2025 dellisphelps

gleaning the journals: an artist purges

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winter solstice, d. ellis phelps

winter solstice blessed be the darkness hoveringunder this black moonlet demons wakelet chaos comelet chaos comeinto the womb of these wee hours—the reckoning oneswhen thoughts devour& life itself is a candle spent:lit burnt dissolvingthat turns the heavy scent of what has beeninto the hint of what’s to come —a faint perfume—the rising sunand then shall […]

new work on Texas Poetry Assignment

Here we are Feeding Texas by writing poems. Many thanks to Editor, Laurence Musgrove, for choosing my poem, some nameless god, for the Dec. 7th issue of the TPA Quarterly. As I will, one day at a time and by the grace of god, celebrate forty-six years of sobriety on Jan. 23, 2026, the timing […]

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Today’s writing exercise gets you up and going! I mean, it’s fine to write from your writing studio or from your living room couch. But, there’s nothing like a day-trip to wake up the muse! Truly, my muse often speaks to me when I am driving. Really? Yes. So I have a recording app on […]

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this too–a prayer, d. ellis phelps

Once, my son-in-law, asked me “How do you pray?” All I could think to say was, “I breathe, mostly.” That is still true today, but I would add: I sit. Especially in nature and as one Buddhist friend says, I listen for clues. This poem is one example of one such morning, me sitting in […]

three vessels in a wood

Own this original painting now… Woods, vessels, florals, and figures, especially faces, hands, and feet are recurring images in my paintings. Trees become dryads, vessels become bodies, bodies become spirit guides, floral impressions become bounty, fertility, and beauty. In this painting, vessels seem to become trees in a dark wood, their canopies full of bountiful […]

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Own this original now… I have been practicing light work or energy work for decades. I began with Reiki Level 1 in the early 1990s (yes. I’m from the 1900s). I have continued my studies and practice of energy healing since then and have found it to be the singular most important thing I have […]

Writer’s Idea Box: writing horses

Writing warm ups can be of enormous value for developing fodder for future in-depth explorations. This month, I depart from the standard syllabus I usually offer to offer, instead, a rich writing warm-up exercise I call “writing horses.” This exercise, it may surprise you, has nothing whatsoever to do with actual horses, the animal, but […]

RIP Nancy Roof, Kosmos Journal Founder 1929-2025

[believed that] healing the world requires healing the self, and that global change must arise from deeply rooted spiritual awareness. Kosmos So do I. I never met Nancy Roof but I admire her work and aspire to create in fws, a journal, that like Kosmos publishes a diversity of voices that reflect the complexity of […]

Please, delete this…

I have been “attending “ satsang almost daily with Guru Mooji Baba since 2020, when during quarantine, I knew I had to find a teacher or I would come unglued. I thank the Supreme Being for inspiring this Guru and for guiding me to him via the most unlikely channel: YouTube. Tonight, this quote spoke […]

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