Poetry – Red Tent Living

My Place

By: redtentwomen October 18, 2018October 17, 2018

LiteratureBeing myself, Julie McClay, Poetry4 Comments

Wherever I am That is my place I belong and bring goodness and life to the space I don’t have to ask For permission to be I can step up and show up with all that is me To exit or enter Each is my choice I also determine the use of my voice I…

The Place

By: redtentwomen October 3, 2018October 2, 2018

Art, Day to Day, Femininity, LiteratureArt, Distraction, Hannah Wilder, Middle School, Peace, Poetry13 Comments

Find inside of you a maze As strong as it can be It’s quite a strange mysterious Place For it’s a part of thee. When painting a space for rest And finding your beginning tree First weave out of splintered leaves a nest For your sacred Place to be. Just take a breath and blow…

Poetry, Donuts, and the Meaning of Life

By: redtentwomen April 2, 2018April 2, 2018

Day to Day, Intentional Living, relationshipsAging, Becky Allender, Billy Collins, Building Relationship, Introduction to Poetry, Poetry25 Comments

Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide

Bar Joke

By: redtentwomen March 28, 2018March 28, 2018

Day to Day, Intentional LivingArmed Services Arts Partnership, Charles Bukowski, Christianity, Deconstruction, embracing change, Libby Kurz, Poetry, Teaching Writing3 Comments

“Find what you love and let it kill you.” – Charles Bukowski Three nurses and a radiology resident walk into a bar. They are young, single, female military officers who gather on weekends to drink cheap wine, eat overpriced sushi, and commiserate about their love lives (or lack thereof). Picture a scene from Grey’s Anatomy…

Spaces

By: redtentwomen December 6, 2017December 7, 2017

LiteraturePoetry, Sacred Space, Stephany Mahtani1 Comment

In space, alone, I know You. In the openness of thought, I find You. Beginnings of meaning arise and float,

Chapters

By: redtentwomen September 21, 2017September 17, 2017

LiteraturePoetry, Rewriting your story, Stephany MahtaniLeave a Comment

Before time, before my father met my mother, God knew me, And knew the story to be. He wrote pages I had not yet seen, ones that would change everything.

How the Light Gets In

By: redtentwomen July 24, 2017July 24, 2017

UncategorizedCharles Bukowski, Jesus and women, Libby Kurz, Linda Pastan, Poetry, Relationship with Jesus, The Samaritan Woman, The Woman with the Alabaster Flask9 Comments

“Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension, and I do not have time for things that have no soul.” –Charles Bukowski There’s a little coffee shop in town where I like to write. The last time I was there, I noticed a massive crack in…

But You Are Still Good.

By: redtentwomen March 23, 2017March 23, 2017

LiteratureAnorexia, disappointment, Divorce, Kacy Davis, Poetry, Psalms, Re-Marriage5 Comments

I’m in a bible study this semester and one of the assignments was to write a Psalm. We had to think about who God is, who we are, and the things we are thinking about God.

Rejection Slips

By: redtentwomen November 18, 2016November 15, 2016

LiteratureCreative Writing, Dreaming, Elizabeth Kurz, Flannery O'Connor, Libby Kurz, MFA, Natalie Goldberg, Passion, Poet, Poetry, Rob Bell, Write what you love, Write what's true, Writing6 Comments

“You do not write the best you can for the sake of art, but for the sake of returning your talent increased to the invisible God, to use or not use as He sees fit.” –Flannery O’Connor I remember sitting in the post office parking lot that day, the heat of mid May filling my…

Ride Along

By: redtentwomen October 12, 2016October 9, 2016

LiteratureAnna Smith, can i come?, courage, eating disorder recovery, Poetry, Self Acceptance, self-criticism1 Comment

When I first read the question, “Can I Come?” the next phrase that carried into my thoughts was, “And Will I Bring Myself Fully?”