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Featured Poetry

Richard Pettigrew – Drunken Flora

August 2, 2026August 2, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

Surfer-poet of Hawaii, Richard Pettigrew, once again swings by The Dewdrop, this time with a botanical tragedy "Drunken Flora".

Tagged beauty, Death, flora, flowers, glory, loss, Meditation, nature, perish, Poem, poet, Poetry1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Aviyah Abrams – Soul-Cloud of a Son

September 7, 2025September 6, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

With her three-part poem "Soul-Cloud of a Son", poet Aviyah Abrams wanders the tragic contours of loss through the radiance of verse.

Tagged beauty, Death, despair, grief, healing, loss, Meditation, mourning, nature, Poem, poet, PoetryLeave a comment
Ross Gay
Poetry

Ross Gay – Sorrow is Not My Name

December 31, 2024January 1, 2025 Sam Shapiro

Ross Gay's ode to awakening to sweetness, written after Gwendolyn Brooks.

Tagged Awakening, beauty, delight, love, Mind, noticing, Poem, Poetry, sorrow, springLeave a comment
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Poetry

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer – For When We Greet Each Other

November 21, 2024November 25, 2024 Vanessa Able

A poem about seeing and honoring what is divine in others and in ourselves, as though all our lives depended on it.

Tagged Affection, beauty, belonging, Care, friendship, greeting, love, offering, Poetry, ritual, safety, serviceLeave a comment
All About Love

Tabletop Portraits and a Lifetime Together

August 22, 2024August 20, 2024 Trent Thomson

From magical to mundane; art, beauty, and time shared. BY HOPE NISLY

Tagged art, Bay Area, beauty, berkeley, community, love, magic, marriage, memory, relationship, time1 Comment
Linda Pastan
Poetry

Linda Pastan – Why Are Your Poems So Dark?

July 24, 2023July 24, 2023 Vanessa Able

Linda Pastan's poem is an ode to the power of the ubiquitous and necessary darkness, and sadness, in our lives.

Tagged beauty, Darkness, Moon, Poetry, SadnessLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Aeris Walker – Good and Wild and Wonderful

February 12, 2023February 23, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Aeris Walker's "Good and Wild and Wonderful" is a prose poem of vast enormity, of the creation of all things.

Tagged beauty, birth, Creation, Genesis, life, love, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, prose poemLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Rebecca Doverspike – Choreography

October 23, 2022October 27, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

In her poem "Choreography", interfaith chaplain Rebecca Doverspike dances from wind, pines, and leaves, to the mental workings of an elderly patient.

Tagged beauty, Death, healing, impermanence, loss, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, timeLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

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

June 5, 2022June 3, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet and retired biologist Brigitte Goetze digs into her scientific background to offer readers something beautiful and wholly original.

Tagged beauty, biology, brain, Heart, love, Poem, poet, Poetry, science, Science and Religion, SpiritualityLeave a comment
Micro Gallery

Adam Powers – Relative

March 15, 2022March 15, 2022 Vanessa Able

Adam Powers' understated photographs draw out beauty from the forgotten corners of urban and commercial landscapes.

Tagged beauty, everyday, mundane, ordinary, photography, urban landscapeLeave a comment

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