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.

Poetic Resurrection Podcast

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.

Inspire Me: Awakening Dreams

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 28, 2025

Goodbye 2024 with Gratitude

2024 Yearend Poetic Resurrection Podcast Goodbye 2024 with Gratitude. The year of 2024 brought about a whirlwind of changes in society, politics, and spirituality. It was a time of both struggle and beauty, as people grappled with the shifting landscape of the world. And as we enter this new year, I am excited to announce an upcoming podcast with author Chuck Rosenthal in January. But that’s just the beginning – our next season, starting in February, will feature captivating video and audio episodes focused on my latest book, “Inspire Me: Awakening Dreams.” Aptly titled “Inspire Me,” this season is set to be a journey of self-discovery and growth for all who tune in. However, as we approach February 2025, the title may evolve to better reflect the essence of the show.

As the New Year approaches, I send my heartfelt wishes for prosperity and blessings to all of my dear family, friends, and listeners. May the coming year bring joy, love, and success in all aspects of your life. And as we bid farewell to this year, I can’t help but express my gratitude to each and every one of you for being a part of my journey.

Check out the episode

I extend my sincerest gratitude to our esteemed guests of 2024:

Ruben Rodriguez – Book Editor
Jack Remick – Writer
Rha Arayal – Poet
Lynne Thompson – Poet Laureate of Los Angeles
Luis J Rodriguez – Former Poet Laureate of Los Angeles
Inam Inamullah – Multitalented Author and Artist
Hannah Parry – Author
Matthew Carauddo – Writer
TeZa Lord – Author
Nathan Singer – Acclaimed Novelist, I was honored to have Nathan write the foreword of my new book.

So, here’s to a fantastic New Year filled with endless possibilities and endless love. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Happy New Year!

Check out my new poetry book Inspire Me: Awakening Dreams

October 28, 2024

Hannah Parry – Author

Hannah Parry author of Breathing for the Both of Us In the September episode of the Poetic Resurrection Podcast features the talented author Hannah Parry. We delve into her novel Breathing for the Both of Us. With a background in pediatric nursing, Hannah shares her journey to becoming an author and the inspiration behind her powerful story. Our conversation is filled with thought-provoking insights on life experiences and the dedication it takes to pursue writing. So, tune in and join us for this engaging and enlightening episode that is sure to leave you wanting more!

Hannah Parry trained as a nurse and has a Master’s in Creative Writing from Birkbeck College, University of London.

She has had four short stories published. Farrukh and the Matchmaker made the longlist of the BBC Short Story Award 2021. The Chrysalis was awarded a Pushcart Prize nomination in 2021.

She does beta reading for established authors and was part of the editorial team on Mechanics’ Institute Review Short Story Anthology in 2018.

Hannah has written two middle-grade historical thrillers – Winter’s Bite and Fever Quest – and two commercial fiction novels which she will publish as H.P. Parry. She developed Breathing for Both of Us, a psychological thriller, on the Curtis Brown Creative course in London and it was published in April 2023.

The Baby Exchange, an upmarket fiction manuscript is on submission.

Listen to the episode here

Breathing for the Both of Us on Amazon

Hannah Parry Website

July 3, 2024July 2, 2024

Poetry and Social Media

As a poet, I struggle with promoting my work on social media, but here are some tips that I hope will be helpful to you and me both. Social media has become a crucial tool for poets to showcase their poetry and connect with a wider audience. What was once seen as a solitary art form is now thriving online, with popular platforms like Instagram, X, Facebook and other platforms are being used by poets and readers alike.

For marginalized communities in particular, social media has provided a platform to amplify their voices and share their experiences through the unique medium of poetry. From poets of color to LGBTQ+ poets, these platforms have created a sense of community and support for those whose voices have long been silenced.

But it’s not just about sharing poems; social media has also completely changed the way poets promote their work. By utilizing hashtags and creating visually appealing content, poets can reach a larger audience and connect with readers from around the world. The popularity of Instagram has also given rise to visual poetry, allowing poets to present their work in new and creative ways.

However, social media is not only a promotional tool – it also allows poets to interact with their audience. By sharing behind-the-scenes glimpses into their writing process and engaging in discussions about their work, poets can build a strong online presence and cultivate a dedicated fan base who will help spread their work through likes, shares, and retweets.

So, for any poets out there looking to promote their work, don’t underestimate the power of social media. Embrace these platforms, interact with your audience, and share your poetry with the world. With some strategic thinking and creativity, social media can take your poetry to new heights and attract new readers.

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