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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
