Poetry as a Living Practice

Sonia Iris Lozada, author of Poetry as a Living Practice In this season of Poetic Resurrection, I explore poetry as a living practice by sharing poems from Awakening Dreams. A poem continues to change long after I have written its final line. When I return to it months or years later, experience brings something new to the reading. A phrase I once understood through sorrow may reveal acceptance. A question may become more complex, or I may finally be ready to sit with it.

That ongoing conversation is at the heart of Poetic Resurrection.

Through the podcast, I bring poetry into spoken performance and explore its relationship to memory, identity, spirituality, and everyday life. My work as a writer and performer meets here: the words on the page become voice, rhythm, breath, and silence. Reading aloud allows me to discover where a poem asks us to pause and what feelings emerge in that space.

My published collections—including Inspire Me: Raw, Inspire Me: Perceptions, Inspire Me: Awakening Dreams, and Follow: Akashic Dreaming Through Time—explore different aspects of our inner lives. Across these books, I return to questions about how we understand ourselves, what we carry, and how our understanding changes over time.

In this season of Poetic Resurrection, I have been sharing poems from Awakening Dreams. Revisiting them offers an opportunity to reflect on both the experiences behind the writing and what the poems mean to me today.

My recent episode, “When Doing Gives Way to Being,” explores a shift in priorities that I have felt in my own life. Growing up with little, I placed great importance on achievement and financial security. I wanted my work to be seen. Those desires shaped many of my choices.

I still care about reaching readers and listeners. But I have become more attentive to the quality of my daily life. The pleasure of creating, the freedom to follow an idea, and the peace of having time to reflect. Poetry helps me examine that shift honestly, including the uncertainty that comes with it.

Poetry as a Living Practice Through Meditation

My meditation work offers another way to share these explorations. Through The Still Point Minute, my year-long series of short meditations on YouTube, I invite viewers to pause and reflect on themes such as presence, compassion, trust, and freedom. Poetry and guided meditation both encourage close attention—to a word, a feeling, a memory, or a moment we might otherwise pass over. These recordings offer an accessible space for reflection and a gentle invitation to return to ourselves.

Alongside my poetry and audio work, I am developing a collection of dream-based psychological science-fiction stories. These drafts allow me to explore consciousness, perception, and identity through characters and imagined worlds. Working in another form brings fresh questions to my writing and challenges me to find different ways of expressing them.

Poetic Resurrection remains a place where I can share that evolving practice. Each episode begins with something that has held my attention and an invitation to consider it together.

I hope you will listen to “When Doing Gives Way to Being” and explore the poems and conversations throughout the podcast. Perhaps something you hear will stay with you—or help you find words for an experience of your own.

Thank you for joining me in exploring Poetry as a Living Practice, and may these words offer a moment of connection and reflection in your own life.

Many Blessings,
Sonia Iris Lozada

June 10, 2026

The Unwritten Months

Unwritten Months - Life's movements Within the unwritten months there are seasons when life asks us to create.

And there are seasons when life asks us to listen.

The past few months have felt like a blend of both.

While I haven’t been posting regularly on the blog, creativity has continued to move quietly beneath the surface. Sometimes through poetry. Sometimes through podcast episodes. Sometimes through the daily practice of creating The Still Point Minute meditations.

One of the gifts of producing daily reflections is that it teaches me to pay attention. Not just to the big moments that demand our focus, but to the subtle moments that often pass unnoticed. A shift in perspective. A moment of gratitude. A realization that arrives while sitting in stillness.

Over the last several months, I’ve found myself returning again and again to themes of wonder, presence, grace, and renewal. Not because life has suddenly become simple, but because those qualities seem to matter most when life is complex.

Through Poetic Resurrection, I have always been interested in the intersection of creativity and humanity. The places where poetry becomes reflection. Where storytelling becomes understanding. Where a simple question can open a doorway into something larger.

The Poetic Resurrection Podcast continues to explore those spaces. Some episodes emerge from poems. Others emerge from personal observations, books, conversations, or moments that refuse to leave me alone until I write about them. Each one is an invitation to look a little deeper at what it means to be human.

The Still Point Minute has become another expression of that same invitation. One minute. One breath. One opportunity to pause in a world that often encourages us to rush forward without noticing where we are.

In many ways, these projects remind me that creativity is not always about producing something new. Sometimes it is about witnessing what is already present. Sometimes it is about listening carefully enough to hear the wisdom hidden beneath the noise.

As we move further into the year, I look forward to sharing more poems, reflections, podcast episodes, and meditations. Thank you for being part of this journey and for creating space in your own life for reflection, imagination, and possibility.

May we continue to find meaning not only in the destinations we seek, but in the moments that shape us along the way.

Many Blessings,

Sonia

February 20, 2026February 19, 2026

Returning to the Still Point

This post marks a gentle return to long-form writing on Poetic Resurrection, rooted in the Still Point, after a season of quieter work. What follows isn’t an update or announcement, but an open reflection — a way of gathering what’s been unfolding and offering it here, for anyone who happens to arrive.

If you’re arriving here now, you’re welcome — just as you are.

Returning to the Still Point

I haven’t written here in a while. Not because I stepped away — but because my creative life moved into a quieter rhythm. Since December, Poetic Resurrection has been living in shorter forms: daily Still Point Minute meditations, spoken reflections, and pieces shared without much explanation. The work continued, just differently. Less about announcing. More about offering.

That shift wasn’t planned. It simply felt right.

A Different Pace

I’ve learned that creativity doesn’t always want momentum. Sometimes it asks for steadiness. Over the past few months, I focused on presence — on making space for breath, attention, and compassion. The Still Point Minute became a small daily ritual, both for listeners and for me. Not something to perfect or promote, just something to return to. In that process, I let go of the need to keep everything moving forward all the time. I trusted that meaning would still arrive, even if it did so quietly.

It did.

Letting the Work Breathe

For a long time, I felt responsible for shaping every piece into something finished, explained, and shareable. Lately, I’ve been more interested in letting work stay open. Poetry returned to its original role — not as a statement, but as a companion. Reflection followed. So did humor, uncertainty, and moments of rest. Nothing needed to be solved. Everything simply needed room.

Why I’m Writing Here Again

Poetic Resurrection has always been a place for thoughtful pause — a space that values interior life as much as expression. That hasn’t changed. What has changed is my relationship to pace. I’m more comfortable letting things unfold. I’m less interested in urgency, and more interested in resonance. This space is opening again not with a declaration, but with a gentle continuation. Some posts may be brief. Some may wander. Some may arrive slowly.

All of that is welcome.

A Simple Return

If you’ve been here during the quieter months, thank you for staying. If you’re returning now, welcome back. And if you’re new, I’m glad you found your way here. This isn’t a restart — just a return to what feels steady and true.

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December 15, 2025

A Year of Returning to a Still Point

A Year of Returning to the Still Point

This year asked for a different kind of presence. A still point.

There were moments when forward motion slowed, when the body required care, and when creativity had to soften its grip and listen rather than produce. Loss, recovery, and the quiet work of endurance reshaped how I moved through my days—and how Poetic Resurrection continued to unfold.

What became clear is this: creativity does not disappear when we slow down. It deepens.

What This Year Held

Much of this year was spent tending rather than sharing. Writing became more intentional. Recording became quieter. Some weeks, showing up meant resting instead of creating, trusting that presence itself was meaningful.

Poetic Resurrection has always been rooted in listening—to grief, to perception, to the spaces between thoughts where truth often emerges. This year reinforced that foundation. It became less about output and more about honoring rhythm.

Not as retreat from the world, but as a way of meeting it with greater care.

The Still Point Reveals Itself

From this recalibration emerged The Still Point Minute.

SPM is a daily, one-minute meditation series—sixty seconds of intentional presence designed for real life. It does not ask for transformation or mastery. It offers a pause.

Each meditation is brief by design, created for the spaces between obligations, before sleep, or at the beginning of a day that already feels full. Monthly themes such as balance, presence, gratitude, and peace guide the series gently, without urgency.

SPM is not about achieving calm. It is about remembering it.

Why One Minute Matters

In a culture shaped by speed and constant demand, one minute becomes an act of quiet permission.

One minute is accessible. One minute is sustainable. One minute can shift the tone of an entire day.

The Still Point Minute exists as a companion rather than a solution—an invitation to return, again and again, to what steadies you.

Moving Forward

Poetic Resurrection and the podcast continues as a living practice, shaped by experience rather than expectation. Poetry, reflection, and presence remain intertwined here, offered without pressure to perform or keep pace.

If this year has felt heavy, disorienting, or tender for you as well, know that this space was created with that reality in mind.

You are welcome to return as you are. One minute at a time.

— Sonia

September 10, 2025September 9, 2025

The Still Point Minute

The Still Point Minute Finds Presence

The Still Point Minute—a daily YouTube series of one-minute reflections with weekly themes—grew from the same intention that inspired me to create Poetic Resurrection. Poetry, much like acting, lives in the pauses as much as the words. Both the daily series and the podcast are ways I return to presence: one through sixty-second mindful pauses, the other through longer conversations and poems.

Why I Started The Still Point Minute

In between poetry, podcasting, and acting auditions, I found myself craving a small but steady way to reset. This series became that practice—a reminder that presence doesn’t require long meditations or hours of stillness. Just sixty seconds can create a shift, offering balance in the middle of a busy day.

Poetry, Reflection, and Everyday Presence

While Poetic Resurrection gives me space for deeper explorations of creativity and healing, the daily reflections are a gentle companion. Each week carries its own theme—gratitude, balance, renewal—and each day brings a short invitation to pause. Together, they form a rhythm: poetry for depth, and mindful moments for presence.

Begin with the First Reflection

If you’d like to explore this practice, you can start with the very first reflection in the playlist here: YouTube – The Still Point Minute.

And of course, new episodes of Poetic Resurrection are always available wherever you listen to podcasts.

Until next time, may you find presence—in poems, in pauses, and in the still point between them.

June 30, 2025July 5, 2025

Francisco Lozada Tribute

The current episode on the Poetic Resurrection Podcast is a tribute to my father, Francisco Lozada, who passed away on Father’s Day, June 15, 2025. During his memorial, I read a tribute to him and, in a rather unusual moment, I sought guidance from my higher self. The response came to me as a poem/letter.

This episode is dedicated to everyone who has lost a loved one. My dad was the last of his generation, and his absence will be deeply felt. Sending love to my dad and to everyone out there who is grieving.

Listen in for the full episode along with the guidance from higher self.

Blessings.

Final Tribute: “Today My Dad Took His Last Breath”

In loving memory of my father

Today,
my dad took his last breath—
a long gasp
followed by
the slow, steady beats of his heart.

Beats that continued
even after he had said
farewell to life.

Farewell to family.
Farewell to his independence.
Farewell to the walls of his home.

My sister was there—
a witness
to his final breath.
I’m grateful
he didn’t leave this world alone.

She held his hand
as he whispered goodbye
to this earthly plane—
his hurt,
his love,
his joy,
his pain.

I said goodbye
and told him I loved him
over video—

Afraid I might arrive too late
to hold his hand
while the rhythm of life
still echoed in his pulse.

I arrived
ten minutes after he passed.

Ten minutes—
a breath,
a blink,
a lifetime.

Still,
I am grateful.

Grateful for the time we shared.
Grateful for the grace of presence.
Grateful that he was my father.

And I,
his daughter.

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May 23, 2025May 22, 2025

Cosmos – A Journey into Oneness

Welcome to the Poetic Resurrection Podcast. I’m Sonia Iris Lozada—poet, voice, soul traveler.

Today’s offering is a moment of stillness and remembrance.
A breath into the vastness within us… and around us.

What if your body wasn’t just matter… but a shimmering map of memory?
What if your cells knew how to dance the cosmos?

Reading of “Cosmos” from Inspire Me: Awakening Dreams.

We are not just bodies.
We are stardust stories.
Every ache, every joy—encoded into light.

This poem came through as a reminder:
We don’t have to hold ourselves together so tightly.
Sometimes, the breaking is how we remember.
Sometimes, the scattering is how we reconnect.

When you feel lost…
maybe you are simply orbiting — in motion,
becoming.

And when you return to yourself,
you bring the wisdom of the stars.

You are the cosmos.
Shimmering. Expanding. Returning.

Thank you for joining me in this moment.
If this touched something in you, I invite you to sit with it…
breathe with it… or share it with someone whose soul might need it.

You can find more of my poetic transmissions, including my book Inspire Me: Awakening Dreams, on my website at poeticresurrection.com.
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Until next time…
Walk gently.
Speak soul.
And remember—your light shimmers with blessings

May 22, 2025

Lost for Words A Reckoning

Thank you for joining me for another episode of Poetic Resurrection. I must be open with you—life has recently been a tumultuous journey. I understand that this is merely a temporary phase, but my aspirations producing this podcast season with video and on a weekly basis have slipped through my fingers like sand. I’m healing from an injury, which has added to the complexity of my days. My father is unwell, and I’ve had to make multiple trips to Chicago to be by his side. Although the podcast was something I truly wished to pursue, the clarity and motivation seemed to elude me, like mist in the early morning light.

However, a silver lining shines through as my book, Inspire Me: Awakening Dreams, has garnered the most glowing reviews I’ve ever received for my writing. This book, a labor of love years in the making, delves deeply into the themes of grief while also exploring the triumph over personal obstacles through wisdom and the act of surrender. Today, I will delve into my poem “Lost for Words,” which reflects on navigating the complexities of our modern world and understanding our role within it. It speaks to overcoming life’s myriad challenges and realizing that we alone hold the power to transform the perceptions of our thoughts and emotions.

Lost for Words

Sometimes I’m lost for words
Seems a strange phrase
When you’re a poet and writer
But I am lost in words and thoughts

Sometimes I’m lost for words
When I see blatant discrimination
as others walk by and ignore
When I see verbal abuse
When I see others suffering

Sometimes I’m lost for words
When our country doesn’t stand for its people
but for those who yearn for the absolute
When selfishness is the norm
When abuse is acceptable

Sometimes I’m lost for words
When loving others is questioned
we love because we exist
When caring for one another is uncommon
When an act of kindness is unusual

Sometimes I’m lost for words
When religious followers use the Golden Rule
but fail to understand what it means
When you pick and choose where your honor rests
When it’s utilized to condone cruel behavior

But I do have faith in humanity
I had faith that when the pandemic was over
we would have learned our lessons
In accepting our neighbor, no matter the difference
In religion, in culture, in the color of our skin.

I wish for acceptance and love—the words I treasure
The words I yearn to hear and feel
the words that are success for the heart
Sometimes I find my words
In a smile, in kindness, and in hope

March 6, 2025March 6, 2025

Strange Thing Grief

Today, I’ll discuss my book, Inspire Me: Awakening Dreams, which explores the theme of grief, inspired by my personal experiences. Over two years, I lost my mother, sister, and a close friend. To lighten the book, I included quotes, uplifting poems, and meditations. I’m a survivor, and if you’ve read my previous works, especially “The Little Girl” from my first poetry collection, Inspire Me: Raw, you’ll understand. I’ve faced trauma, but coping with grief is exceptionally tough. You must confront it and move through it because suppressing grief can cause additional pain and unforeseen sadness later. One of the best pieces of advice I received was to dedicate an hour a day or week to looking at pictures, watching videos, or listening to audio of the loved one who has passed. Allow yourself to cry and experience your emotions. This practice can help lessen unexpected emotional triggers, like hearing a song that reminds you of them. The poem I’ll be reading is titled “Strange Thing Grief.“

January 29, 2025January 28, 2025

Chuck Rosenthal Author-A Sweet Unrest

Chuck Rosenthal - Awake For Ever in a Sweet Unrest Welcome, dear listeners, to the finale of Season 6. Our literary journey has taken us through the works of novelists and poets, exploring the depths of Literary Fiction. And for our closing episode, we have a special guest – Chuck Rosenthal, acclaimed author of Awake For Ever in a Sweet Unrest. As we delve into the premise of his latest book, we are transported into a world of love, longing, and artistic passion. Through this enthralling conversation with Chuck, we not only unravel the complexities of his main character Beatriz but also gain insight into the lives of 19th century romantic literary giants. Get ready for an educational and fascinating finale that will leave you yearning for more.

Listen to Episode

Tune in to our upcoming season, where I will recite my poetry from all of my published works. Season 7 is aptly named “Inspire Me,” promising to ignite the soul and capture the imagination. Each episode will be a journey through words, painting pictures of raw emotion and thought-provoking ideas. So, sit back, relax, and let yourself be inspired by the power of language and the artistry of poetry.

Awake For Ever in a Sweet Unrest. Deep within the hidden library of Los Angeles’ iconic poetry venue, Beyond Baroque, all modern electronics mysteriously fail. There, 19-year-old Beatriz encounters Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley, who promises a magical adventure back to 19th-century Europe.

There, Beatriz meets literary legends John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Lord Byron, experiencing the romantic landscapes and dangerous exploits of their world. As she navigates this liminal space, Beatriz discovers the power of poetry and art, and the courage to find her own identity.

Rosenthal, an acclaimed author, brings historical figures to life, offering a deeply intimate tale of passion, creativity, and self-discovery. Awake For Ever in a Sweet Unrest is perfect for anyone who has ever lost themselves in the magic of a hidden library.

Chuck Rosenthal was born in Erie, Pennsylvania. He attended Allegheny College, Bowling Green State University, SUNY Buffalo, and the University of California, Davis, where he earned several advanced degrees in English, Sociological Theory and philosophy. He earned a Ph.D. in English and American literature with emphasis in creative writing and narrative theory from the University of Utah.

Rosenthal is the author of fourteen novels: the Loop Trilogy: Loop’s Progress, Experiments with Life and Deaf, and Loop’s End; Elena of the Stars; Avatar Angel, the Last Novel of Jack Kerouac; My Mistress Humanity; The Heart of Mars; Coyote O’Donohughe’s History of Texas; Ten Thousand Heavens; The Legend of La Diosa; You Can Fly, a Sequel to the Peter Pan.

Chuck Rosenthal Website