How we learn to become a loving friend—perhaps even best friend—to ourselves.
Category: Poetry
James Crews – Winter Morning
The art of gratitude is the art of paying attention, and when we incline our minds toward gratitude, gratitude blossoms.
Robert Hass – Faint Music
The possibility of a melodious tenderness found within deeper, softer levels of our individual grasping, struggling, imperfect humanity.
Marie Howe – Annunciation
“All I know is that some things have happened that I don’t understand, and they are the most true things I’ve known.”
Joy Sullivan – Sister
Joy Sullivan's poem on the lived sense of healing while being held in another person's deep, loving attention.
W.S. Merwin – Rain Travel
The influence of Buddhist thought is evident in much of W.S. Merwin’s writing.
Ross Gay – Sorrow is Not My Name
Ross Gay's ode to awakening to sweetness, written after Gwendolyn Brooks.
Pushcart Prize 2025 Nominations
Proudly announcing The Dewdrop's Pushcart Prize nominees for 2025. We love your words, your work, all of you!
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer – For When We Greet Each Other
A poem about seeing and honoring what is divine in others and in ourselves, as though all our lives depended on it.
Lucille Clifton – Blessing the Boats
Lucille Clifton's heartfelt blessing to those going forward into the mystery of unknowing, or adversity and the vast sea.