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Turning Words With Hozan Alan Senauke

Ronán P. Berry – On The Mountain of Forth

Regina Dilgen – Meditation on Thomas Merton’s Hermitage

Orhan Pamuk on Writing By Hand

Jane Hirshfield – For What Binds Us

Mike Christie – Knock Knock Knock

Quincy Gray McMichael – After Portugal

Matthew Kohut – Letter to St. John of the Cross

Aeris Walker – Good and Wild and Wonderful

How We Live Is How We Die: Pema Chödrön on Preparing for Death Here and Now

Ziyong Chengru – Ten Verses

Sam Magavern – Balthazar’s Journey

Ellen White Rook – On Waking

The Path that Goes Nowhere – Barbara Brown Taylor on the Practice of Labyrinth Walking

David Cravens – American Zen

Kahlil Gibran – Fear

What Can the Earth’s Crisis Teach Us About Ourselves? David Hinton’s Tao of Ecology

Will Simescu – Agrapha

Emily Fernandez – Please begin

Naomi Shihab Nye – Burning the Old Year

Most Read on The Dewdrop: What We Loved in 2022

Editor’s Choice – The Pick of our Featured Poetry from 2022

‘When the Lights of Health Go Down’- Virginia Woolf on Being Ill

HR. Harper – The Way of Mountains

Sandra M. Castillo – Christmas, 1970

Kai-Lilly Karpman – Prometheus as Girl

Life Includes All Opposites – Alan Watts on the Oneness of the Tao

Sheila Lynch-Benttinen – December Solstice

Kathryn Weld – Is the Sun Conscious

Billy Collins – Shoveling Snow With Buddha

John Paul Caponigro – Test for Echo

Nadir Feroz – Doused

Wendell Berry – To Know The Dark

The Sacred Pulse of Night and Day

Swetha Amit – The Tea Prayer

David Anthony Martin – The After

Lina Buividavičiūtė – A Housewife’s Opus Magnum

Rebecca Doverspike – Choreography

Samantha Imperi – To my child, on God

Derek Walcott – Love After Love

‘An Appropriate Response’: Christian Dillo on the Nature of Buddhist Wisdom

Kimberly Phinney – Body of Work

William Wordsworth – The Rainbow

B.R. Wilder – Oh Mother, do not give me bliss

Marcy Rae Henry – start with looking

Why I Write: Christian Dillo

Seth Josephson – In the Future

Cyn Grace Sylvie – O, Cynthia

Christy Allen – Meditation

Brandon James O’Neil – City Adhan

Brandon McQuade – Jamaica

Rose DeMaris – Song of the Barren Orange Tree Who Is Nourished by Her Own Fallen Leaves

Pigs in Winter

Carol Barrett – Esther Talks to Her Unborn Child

Observed by Deer

Guadalupe Salgado Partida – Nearing Heaven

Laura Johnson – To the Daughter I Never Had

Gina Ferrara – Along Its Course

Anya Smith – Mountain Messaged Erotica

K. E. Ogden – Daily Labor

Stephanie McConnell – Palms

Shanley McConnell – Mary sings a lullaby to her baby God

This Is For You

Lawrence Bridges – Lake Hughes Road

Brigitte Goetze – How We Come to Understand or the Heart, the Right Brain, and the Left Brain Muse about Science’s Most Famous Equation

Like Silt in a Flowing Stream – May Sarton on Solitude and Clutter

E.E. Cummings – Let It Go—The
Nicole Grace – One Note

Patrice Bavos – Sedona Prayer

Eloise Klein Healy – Iris

Normal Days – A Tribute to the Ordinary From the Far Edge of Life

Kurtis Ebeling – Snowmelt

Last Temptation

Mark Hammerschick – Permafrostedness Rising

In the Name of the Stranger – Pádraig Ó Tuama on the Language of The Troubles

Kazim Ali – Ramadan

Breathing

Gil Fronsdal on Immanent and Naturalistic Buddhism

Nathaniel Grayson – Some Distant Island

R. B. Simon – Shorn

Bradley Samore – After a Day of Others’ Demands

Kit Evans – When We Go to That Museum You Liked

Ursula K. Le Guin – Kinship

The Most Real and Creative Form of Human Presence: John O’Donohue on Soul Friendship

Passersby

Katie Jones – Morning

Adam Powers – Relative

Elisabeth Preston-Hsu – Kitsune Udon

Hiatt O’Connor – Waiting for Gravity

To Walk the Stones

Suzanne Eaton – windchimes

In Praise of Winter Hiking

Joshua C. Allen – The White Oak Peninsula

Leslie Ryan – Taking Refuge

A Love Letter to Nathaniel

Xiaoly Li – Light Breaks the Barrier

Ryan Diaz – Saint Hubert and the Deer

Jack Gilbert – Going There

The First Door of Liberation: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Vision of Emptiness and Interbeing

The Loss

Rooja Mohassessy – Intoxicated by Verses

Gully and Bayou

Spence Pfleiderer – A Simple Morning Prayer

Violeta Garcia-Mendoza – Seasonal Affective Disorder

W.S. Merwin – Rain Light

Giving Away More Than We Keep – Ayya Khema on Cultivating Generosity

Remember the Bear

Rose Strode – Saint Cuthbert Proclaims the First Sanctuary for Birds, 676 A.D.

Antoinette Kennedy – Soul in the Sky

T.S. Eliot – The Journey of the Magi

The Courage of Our Mistakes – Joan Didion on Self-Respect and Moral Nerve

Salamander

Carolyn Decker – An Approximation

Philip Booth – First Lesson

Discourse on the Absolute Truth

Samantha Wright – And Again

Ode to the Radio Telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, Before its Collapse

Vanessa Able – Bhakti

The Glimpse of Eternity – Martin Buber and Our Relationship With The Divine

June Jordan – Poem for a Young Poet

The Curse

Gay Guard-Chamberlin – “Do You Have Any Advice for Those of Us Just Starting Out?”

Lawrence Bridges – The Fresh Fulcrum

The Expression of a Better World – Anaïs Nin on Transience and the Painful, Familiar Beauty of Music

Between Writers

Tamerlie Philippe – Fading Memories

Marie Howe – Death, the last visit

Christopher James – Cider, memories, and dreams

Sunset Meditation

Martine van Bijlert – this life we built

John O’Donohue – Beannacht / Blessing

Outer and Inner Ecologies: Activist Satish Kumar on the Importance of Seeing Our Own Divinity

Derek Furr – The Meadow

Jacob Lehmann – Constructed Spaces

Pamela Denyes – The Fog of October

Emily Dickinson – I Died for Beauty, But Was Scarce…

Chris Abani on the Balance and Patience of West African Beauty

Learning How to Breathe Again

My Backspaces

Marsha Warren Mittman – No Name

Tishani Doshi – Hope is the Thing

Letting the Old Thrills Die: C.S. Lewis on Being Alive to New Joy

Malignant – A Love Story

Rebecca Ramsden – Be Thou My Vision

Gabriela De Paz – Enredadera

Eugene Platt – September Poem

Anne Hillman – We Look With Uncertainty

Working With the Soul Nerve – Resmaa Menakem on Grounding Our Bodies

Morning Toast

Jenna Wysong Filbrun – Church

On Being Plan B

Jane Hirshfield – All The Difficult Hours and Minutes

What is Meditation? Shinzen Young on How to Deepen Our Focus

Barry Casey – Wait Here

Shangyang Fang – Chaconne

The Most Beautiful Thing We Can Experience Is The Mysterious: Albert Einstein’s Living Philosophy

Owen Brown – Emerging

Susan Coultrap-McQuin – Seeking Stars

Jericho Brown – Bullet Points

Pandemic Snow

The Full Awareness of Breathing

Cristina Legarda – Mary

Joseph Campbell On Experiencing Mystery

The River Cabin

Leonard Cohen – Roshi

You Have To Say Something: Dainin Katagiri on What To Say When There Is Nothing To Say

Brian Yapko – My Hunger for You

Astronomer Pippa Goldschmidt on Seeing Far and Seeing Up Close

Seamus Heaney – Wheels Within Wheels

The Self is Tied to This Body Like an Ox to a Cart

Lily Jarman-Reisch – Camino Real

Nancy Holt’s Mystifying Sun Tunnels in the Great Basin Desert

Around the Rings of Saturn

Adrienne Rich – The Corpse-Plant

Jeff Mann – Emerging

Each Breath One Takes is a Step Towards One’s Destiny

Katie Bowers – Even Though I Am Weary of Church Pews, She Is Not

Carl Jung and The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man

Allen Ginsberg – A Supermarket in California

The Buddha’s Last Teaching: Be Your Own Island, Your Own Refuge

Brandon McQuade – Two Whiskies

‘A Heart Slowly Reduced to Embers’: W. G. Sebald on the Fires That Burn Inside and Outside

No Way Out

Maggie Smith – Good Bones

Body Like a Rag, Mind Like a Mirror – Guo Gu Breaking Through Boundaries

Guo Gu’s Guide to Silent Illumination

Kevin James – Just for You

‘Nature is Never Finished’ – Artist Robert Smithson on Cultural Confinement and Finding Real Freedom in Art

Robert Bly – When William Stafford Died

Keeping Silence of the Heart: Cultivating Attention and Sobriety According to the Philokalia

Dane Lyn – holy musings at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2019

Pamela Wax – Capricorn Loses His Star

Samara Landau – Happenstance

La Mar, El Mar: Ernest Hemingway’s Kind, Beautiful, Cruel Ocean

Angelic Armendariz – Nonbeliever

Pablo Neruda – The Sea

Dogen’s Seal of the Ocean: How Meditation and Life Can Flow Like Water

Gary Snyder – For the Children

Flow

Out Of the Body and Into the Mountain: Nan Shepherd’s Journeys Among the Scottish Cairngorms

Kelly Joslyn – Before the Hunt

William Stafford’s Last Poem

‘Simply Be Aware of the Oneness of Things’ – Lao Tzu’s Lost Teachings from the Hua Hu Ching

Julia Park Tracey – Tufas

‘Your Job Is to Put On a Splendid Performance’: Epictetus’ Design for a Skillful and Happy Life

Ellen Bass – If You Knew

Surviving Intact – Norman Fischer on Zen, Language and Growing Old

Everything is Made of Mind: Norman Fischer on the Playing-Out of Impermanence and Eternity

Ellen Skilton – Like Every Good Thing

To Share Fear is the Greatest Bond of All: J.A. Baker’s Loving Portrait of the Peregrine

I Am Not Garysomething

Focusing the Mind: Santideva’s Verses on Meditation and Relationship

Laura Schaffer – Evening

Billy Collins – The Dead

M. Christine Benner Dixon – Portrait of Dad at the Cutting Board

The Poem Is a Place in Which to Feel: Mary Oliver’s Tribute to Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman – O Me! O Life!

Running With Life: Alan Watts on Freedom and Poverty

Wendy Blaxland – That Wind

This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?

Sanctuary

Robert Frost – Acquainted with the Night

The Koan of Baso’s Very Mind

Lenora Steele – From the Patient Lounge, Before the Bypass

Alain de Botton on Why We Marry the Wrong People

Carrie Shipers – Mother Talks Back to the Monsters

Rooting Firmly Into Life – Thomas Merton on Accepting Reality as It Is

Nicholas Trandahl – Francis and Sistani

Sealskin, Soulskin – A Fable About Returning to Our Wild Origins

This Might Seem Stupid

Marc Bamuthi Jospeh – You Have the Rite

Why I Write – A Conversation with Kathleen Dean Moore

Milarepa’s Song of Transiency and Delusion

Pete Mackey – Mourning

I Had a Brother Once: A Poetic Ritual for a Sibling’s Grief

‘Telling Stories is the Single Thing That Makes Us Human’ – A Conversation with Adam Mansbach

Agha Shahid Ali – Prayer Rug

Jonathan Koven – Stilled Wings Will Soar

Anger Is Me and I Am Anger

When I Run Out of Murakami

T.S. Eliot – East Coker from Four Quartets

Dave Sims – Watercolors

Buddhism’s Most Basic Teaching: Everything Changes

Hari B Khalsa – Three Poems

Jennifer Chesnut – Little Bird

Improvisations in Jazz – Bill Evans’ Kind of Blue Liner Notes

Leaving

Amy Lowell – A Blockhead

Healing With Our Wounds – Henri Nouwen on Working With Loneliness

Erika Michael – Entanglement

Rilke and the Labors of Love

Stephen Dunn – Allegory of the Cave

As Long as Your Dewlike Human Life Lasts

Matthew Kohut – White Ash

Living Like Birds, Loving Like Birds

Issa – This Dewdrop World

Cynthia Ruse – The In-Between

You Have to Have a Cup

Stuart Gunter – The Wind Telephone

A Boy and His Woodland Friends: Charles Mackesy’s Heartwarming Tale of Discovery

Three-Pack as Another Name for Beauty

Philip Larkin – The Mower

The Moon in the Water, the Body in the Mirror

Tracy Ahrens – Thicket of Memories

The Free Woman is Just Being Born – Simone de Beauvoir and Freedom in Creativity

Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Mother and Poet

The Struggle of a Buddha’s Wife

Lori Rottenberg – Heresy

Nietzsche on Why It Is Also Important to Forget

Lora and Jack

Barbara Kingsolver – How to Do Absolutely Nothing

Serape

The Vast Blue Ocean – Cuong Lu’s Love Letter to Those in Despair

Emma Wynn – Sitting Dawn

Life Stand Still Here – Virginia Woolf and the Little Miracles

Robert Bringhurst – Sutra of the Heart

Self-Realization – Brahman and the Absolute

Vanessa Escobar – Why I Can’t Eat My Grandmother’s Fried Liver and Onions

Bad Drivers and the Short View

Elizabeth Bishop – In the Waiting Room

Hey, Mockingbird

Buddha On The Phone, Buddha Watching TV

Amy-Sarah Marshall – Shelled

The Culture of Healing: Louise Glück on Art’s Restorative Power

Katya Belena – Dawn Dusk

G.K. Chesterton – The Convert

“The Total Functioning is You, The Consciousness is You”

Vanessa Watters – Amnesia

Sleep Faster, We Need the Pillows: Suzanne Buffam’s ‘A Pillow Book’

Wanda Coleman – Nocturne

Religious Training, Equanimity of Mind

Erin Pickersgill – For the Pleasure

The Value of Honey – Susan Brind Morrow on the Oldest Form of Agriculture

Diane Ackerman – We Are Listening

When the Lion Roars

Jones Irwin – Around Here

The Landscape of Loss – Liz Tichenor’s ‘The Night Lake’

Embodying Grief – A Conversation with Liz Tichenor

Muriel Rukeyser – Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars)

“Do Not Visit the Sufi Unless You Want to Benefit”

Their Love of Life Should Never Weaken

Han Shan – A Bug Crawling in a Bowl

The Path Through the Gateless Gate

George Stein – Specter

Born in the City of David

Dilruba Ahmed – Phase One

Mencius – To Fathom the Mind

Taylor Mallay – New Life

A ‘Difficult’ Disease

Intersection

Rebecca Elson – Antidotes to Fear of Death

Martha Nance – Waterwords

On the Anxiety of Non-Being

Margaret Bleichman – upon waking

The Ecstasy of Paying Attention

Audre Lorde – A Litany for Survival

Letters to My Unborn Daughter

How to Dance? Lessons from a Zen Master

Amanda Smith-Hatch – Redemption

To Possess Is To Give

Mary Oliver – Wild Geese

Better Than We Think: Directing Self-Love

Todd Williams – Lost Socks

Tacey M. Atsitty – Anasazi

Gin and Coconut Curry

Bodhidharma’s Bloodstream Sermon

Mark Christopherson – Interval and Slip

Seamus Heaney – The Peninsula

The Love of Particulars and the Dignity of Difference

Robin Knight – Vulpine Nature

Ordinary Devotions

Dad Too Late

A.R. Ammons – Play

A Terrible Assistant Manager

The Great, Generous Laugh
