Wildflowers Praying at Midnight

by Jaiya John

Wildflowers Praying at Midnight is Jaiya John's newest collection of poetic verses, rich with stories, prayers, devotions, affirmations, incantations, soul summoning, and mystic dreaming. For longtime and new readers of Jaiya John, Wildflowers provides fresh medicine for a humanity moving through profound collective harm, reckoning, revelation, and revival. In a voice both ancestral and prophetic, each page offers a lush garden of spiritual and social blooming. Nourishing salve and balm for this moment and beyond. Pollinated and nectar-rich in John's customary Love-soaked language, this soul-stirring collection confronts all forms of oppression at their often-avoided root. Wildflowers Praying at Midnight soothes and guides your tender heart and our kindred way forward. Dr. Jaiya John is a poet, author, ancestral Baba, and freedom worker whose wisdom will resonate for the When we pray wild together in the midnight of our despair, we fashion the sunrise of our glorious new world. Come join this dreaming.

282 pages, Hardcover

Published December 16, 2025

About the author

Dr. Jaiya John was orphan-born on Ancient Puebloan lands in the high desert of New Mexico, and is an internationally recognized freedom worker, author, and poet. Jaiya is the founder of Soul Water Rising, a global rehumanizing mission to eradicate oppression that has donated thousands of Jaiya’s books in support of social healing, and offers grants and scholarships to displaced and vulnerable youth. He is the author of numerous books, including Fragrance After Rain, Daughter Drink This Water, and, Freedom: Medicine Words for your Brave Revolution. Jaiya writes, narrates, and produces the podcast, I Will Read for You: The Voice and Writings of Jaiya John, and is the founder of Freedom Project, a global initiative reviving traditional gathering and storytelling practices to fertilize social healing and liberation. He is a former professor of social psychology at Howard University, and has spoken to over a million people worldwide and audiences as large as several thousand. Jaiya is a former National Science Foundation fellow, and holds doctorate and master’s degrees in social psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a focus on intergroup and race relations. As an undergraduate, he attended Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and lived in Kathmandu, Nepal, where he studied Tibetan Holistic Medicine through independent research with Tibetan doctors and trekked to the base camp of Mt. Everest. His Indigenous soul dreams of frybread, sweetgrass, bamboo in the breeze, and turtle lakes whose poetry is peace.