Skip to content
The Dewdrop Logo

The Dewdrop

read deep, breathe easy

  • Poetry
  • Book Bits
  • OTHER SECTIONS
    • Featured Writing
    • Weekly Haiku
    • All About Love
    • Why I Write
    • Way-Seeking Mind
    • Micro Gallery
    • Sutras
    • Koans
  • Newsletter
  • ABOUT
    • Contact
    • Work With Us
    • Submissions
    • About The Dewdrop: Who We Are
  • SUPPORT

Tag: awareness

Featured Poetry

Spencer Pfleiderer – Sanctuary

October 6, 2024October 3, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Spencer Pfleiderer informs us with solid earthy lines of his poem "Sanctuary" that good things come to those who wait.

Tagged Awakening, awareness, nature, observation, outdoors, patience, Poem, poet, Poetry, TreesLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Daniel Dissinger – blend

September 15, 2024September 12, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Jack Kerouac scholar and poet Daniel Dissinger presents "blend", a work of pacing, breathing, and the consummate wildness of intimacy.

Tagged awareness, breath, Breath Awareness, breathing, intimacy, Meditation, Poem, poet, Poetry, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Kashiana Singh – In Samadhi

March 31, 2024March 27, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

The Dewdrop is honored to publish the meditative haiku sequence "In Samadhi" by poet and speaker Kashiana Singh.

Tagged awareness, Haiku, Meditation, pause, Poem, poet, Poetry, Stillness, ZenLeave a comment
Oren Jay Sofer
Book Bits

‘The Only Way To Be Free’ – Oren Jay Sofer on Why Mindfulness Is More Than Just Paying Attention

November 29, 2023December 20, 2023 Vanessa Able

How continuous awareness can be a catalyst for radical personal freedom and transformation.

Tagged awareness, Buddha, Buddhism, concentration, Freedom, Meditation, mindfulness, self awareness, transformation1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Alison Granucci – Says the Body and Soul

June 25, 2023June 22, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Composed of two contrasting parts, Alison Granucci's "Says the Body and Soul" is both an ethereal hopeful work and one of rugged desolation.

Tagged awareness, Body, perception, Poem, poet, Poetry, senses, sensory, soul, thoughtLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Lindsay Rockwell – Watching the Light Shift

June 18, 2023June 15, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Both revelatory and mysterious, Lindsay Rockwell's "Watching the Light Shift" shows us the path without giving us the answers.

Tagged attention, awareness, God, Light, observation, openness, perception, Poem, poet, Poetry, presence, senses, sensoryLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Ronán P. Berry – On The Mountain of Forth

March 19, 2023March 12, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

"On The Mountain of Forth" is Irish poet Ronán P. Berry's anthem of the natural and wild world and what could even be considered enlightenment.

Tagged awareness, Ireland, Irish, mountain, mountains, nature, nature writing, Poem, poet, Poetry, Self, self-awarenessLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

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

October 2, 2022September 30, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

To be filled with gratitude for life and experience in its entirety--that is the meaning conveyed in B.R. Wilder's poem "Oh Mother, do not give me bliss".

Tagged awareness, bliss, entirety, Experience, experiencing, Gratitude, life, Poem, poet, PoetryLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Marcy Rae Henry – start with looking

September 25, 2022September 22, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Marcy Rae Henry's poem glitters with awareness, gratitude, and release. Each stanza highlights a moment or image that is, in fact, a gift.

Tagged awareness, Buddhism, Buddhist poetry, Gratitude, loss, Poem, poet, Poetry, self-awareness, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Gina Ferrara – Along Its Course

July 17, 2022July 14, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

New Orleans poet Gina Ferrara writes a poem of awareness, inevitability, permanence, and nature, the lines of which are gathered around the shores of a sluggish river.

Tagged awareness, nature, outdoors, Poem, poet, Poetry, river, rivers, Water, watersLeave a comment

Posts navigation

Older posts
Newer posts

TOP POSTS

  • This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • About Love
    About Love
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer - For When We Greet Each Other
    Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer - For When We Greet Each Other
  • What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
    What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
  • John O'Donohue on Soul Friendship
    John O'Donohue on Soul Friendship
  • On Falling in Love - James Baldwin
    On Falling in Love - James Baldwin
  • Seamus Heaney - The Peninsula
    Seamus Heaney - The Peninsula
  • Lucille Clifton - why some people be mad at me sometimes
    Lucille Clifton - why some people be mad at me sometimes
  • Rebecca Solnit's Blue of Distance
    Rebecca Solnit's Blue of Distance

- BOOK BITS -

  • Rick Ruben
    “Expanding the Universe” – Rick Rubin on Awareness in Creativity
    What is the role of awareness in creativity and how can we cultivate it to make our world a bigger and clearer place?
  • Thich Nhat Hanh
    The First Door of Liberation: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Vision of Emptiness and Interbeing
    Rather than signifying a lack or a void, Thich Nhat Hanh took emptiness to be a state of inextricable and fundamental interconnectedness.
  • Mike Travisano – Bob’s Tattoos
    A short story on the power of three simple words and how much they can mean and embody.
  • Shunryu Suzuki
    Sharing the Feeling: Zen Teacher Shunryu Suzuki on Becoming Ourselves
    The importance of keeping an empty mind for savoring the present and expressing ourselves in our most authentic way.
  • Ray Bradbury
    Running After Loves – Ray Bradbury on Fostering Hunger in Writing
    Finding the truth of our authentic passions is the key to forming the foundations of a writing practice


- POETRY-

  • Jeremy Giles – Grass Field We Named Beach
    Like a fistful of sand scattered across white space, poet Jeremy Giles leans into experimentalism in his poem "Grass Field We Named Beach".
  • A Year of Kō: 4th Sekki
    4th Sekki poems by JOYCE RITCHIE, DIANA LIVI and VIRGINIA FOLGER
  • Lily Tobias – Fennel
    In her poem "Fennel", Michigan poet Lily Tobias awakens our senses in the quiet hush of morning, and takes us to the temple.
  • Roshi Joan Halifax and The Way of Haiku
    A collection of haiku offered by Roshi Joan Halifax.
  • A Year of Kō: 3rd Sekki
    3rd Sekki poems by COLEMAN DAVIS, LAILA BRAHMBHATT, WILLIAM KILGORE
The Dewdrop
Proudly powered by WordPress Theme: Dara.
 

Loading Comments...