Heartwork with Dale Biron–Poems For Heart and Soul
Now more than ever, we need the fierce, insightful, inspiring power of poetry in our lives, connecting head, heart and soul...
Episodes
212 episodes
Mother Earth Speaks Out About AI
Of course, it’s all in the news for good reason. Time to hear from Mother Earth about what AI expert Tristan Harris describes as AI's infinite curve of possibility, juxtaposed right up against its infinite curve of risk...
Finding Our Deep Story Telling Intelligence
"There is an intelligence deep down below the surface called stories,but if told wrong, they can kill you..."
You Must Change Your Life (Now)
Did the renowned poet Rilke realize by the time he passed away in 1926 that one of his famous poems would be recited a century later and would serve as a catalyst for a significant change in your life?
Is Poetry Right For You? (A Self-Guided Test)
There need not be an exact fit here, with this self-guided poetry test. A partial one will do. The main thing I look for, is what I call poetry’s small but persistent tug. Do you feel such a thing? It can come with joy and celebration or equall...
When We Were Wolves
Imagine transforming into a wolf for a year, not forever. Your life would become exhilarating yet perilous. Would you endure? And if you did, how might this transformative experience alter you? Before you answer, contemplate its potential impac...
The Market For Love Is A Loser
Not every human need is served by markets and market efficiency. Take love for example...
Honoring A Dear Friend's Passing
How do you honor the passing of a dear friend, a friend of many years? If you’re a lover of poetry, you’ll likely find a poem that captures the moment. Alternatively, you can write one with great humility, gratitude, and love.
In the House of Our Blessed Overwhelm
Maybe we ought not fight our overwhelm. At least not so hard. Perhaps it is better to flow with it, ride it, simply let it be. This week’s poem says let your overwhelm compost and transform you. It says permission granted to be overwhelmed any ...
Eight Ways To Sneak Up On Truth (The Poem)
No not truth with a capital "T" which words can never capture. Rather words that point toward the truth and help us find it more easily. Words that can help us see illusion and then tiptoe around it with a little more ease.
How The World Works (To Remind Myself)
Bad Bunny was right about the power of love over hate. But how do we bring that wisdom into our own daily lives? How can we do our own heart work, bringing more empathy, vulnerability, intuition, and deep connection into our lives? How can we f...
Can We Speak Our Truth?
What Is True Is Already So So Might As Well Speak ItMy heart is a small quivering hand,planting seeds in the dead of winter. My days are an old dog, prone to wagging, then quietly laying down to escape...
How I Feel About Politics in America These Days...
How I Feel About Politics in America These Days…OK, I’ll tell you how I feel.I feel as frustrated as Sisyphus carrying that boulder.I feel a fear trembling, on a crowded tongue of silence. I feel rusty chains r...
Political Frustration, Fear, and Fatigue
It’s 2026, and a friend asks how you’re doing with politics these days. You just shake your head, thinking, “Well, maybe, as the poet Wendell Berry said, ‘The mind that is not baffled is not employed.’ Especially these days.”
Are You Laboring In Obscurity?
Obscurity is not freedom. Freedom is also no being a slave to attention or fashion. Mostly, freedom is freedom...Laboring In Obscurity In some circles, this is considered real freedom or better than freedom—...
The Patient Enemy
This poem invites us to imagine a different kind of enemy—one that doesn’t oppose or hate us, doesn’t rush us, and doesn’t need to negotiate. An enemy that patiently waits to help us become more authentic, more grounded, more humble, and human....
The Practice of Just Being
There’s a strange moment when trying harder actually makes everything worse—and most of us don’t realize we’re in it. What happens when we stop performing, persuading, and proving—and allow life to meet us where we are?
QUICK POETRY TAKE: A Beutiful Poem of Healing
This deceptively brief poem, “Kind” by Leonard Nathan, holds immense depth and healing power.
A Deep Honoring Of Your Dearest Friends
Close friends reveal new worlds within us—more creative, wise, and kind versions of ourselves that might never exist without them. Express your deep gratitude to them. You could pick up the phone, write a letter, or even send this poem as a tok...
Thinking Like A Mountain
One of the most powerful and poetic essays I've ever read. Featured this week, "Thinking Like A Mountain" by Also Leopold. Bukle up if you are ready to shift your thinking, and more importantly, your feeling about your embedded place in t...
3 Things Great Poems Share
Every great poem has many things... It must have these three... Music. Magic. Meaning.
This Poem Will Move You
Poems are not mechanical things. Their math is a math of the heart. However, some poems are built in such a way that they are very likely to move people. Many people. Perhaps you?