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Featured Poetry

Carolyn Chilton Casas – Destiny

February 15, 2026February 14, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

The couplets of Carolyn Chilton Casas' "Destiny" reveal an empowering poetic manifesto of awareness and interconnectedness.

Tagged awareness, belonging, connection, destiny, Identity, Interconnectedness, Moon, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, wildlifeLeave 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
John O Donohue
Book Bits

John O’Donohue on Soul Friendship

March 25, 2022April 23, 2025 Vanessa Able

Ancient Celtic tradition upheld soul-friendships and the potential for inner growth that they teased out.

Tagged belonging, celtic, companionship, friendship, guide, love, recognition, soul friend, Teacher, Understanding1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Jenna Wysong Filbrun – Church

September 26, 2021September 24, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Jenna Wysong Filbrun's Church is an ode to nature, life, and belonging in a time of spiritual upheaval, an ode to the wilderness, which was humanity's first place of worship.

Tagged belonging, church, divine, divinity, God, life, nature, Poem, Poetry, Spirituality, wilderness1 Comment

TOP POSTS

  • This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
    Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • Lucille Clifton - why some people be mad at me sometimes
    Lucille Clifton - why some people be mad at me sometimes
  • T.S. Eliot - East Coker from Four Quartets
    T.S. Eliot - East Coker from Four Quartets
  • Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
    Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
  • Pesha Gertler - The Healing Time
    Pesha Gertler - The Healing Time
  • Rebecca Solnit's Blue of Distance
    Rebecca Solnit's Blue of Distance
  • Jonathan Jones - man in the rain
    Jonathan Jones - man in the rain
  • Dana Gioia - Summer Storm
    Dana Gioia - Summer Storm

- 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-

  • Jonathan Jones – man in the rain
    It's not without harshness and brutal honesty that poet Jonathan Jones lays out all the discomforts of reality in his poem "man in the rain".
  • A Year of Kō: 12th Sekki
    12th Sekki poems by JOYCE RITCHIE, ELLIOT DIAMOND and COLEMAN DAVIS
  • Nathan Bakken – How to Be a Theologian
    Poet and theologian Nathan Bakken writes a three-part discourse on working in faith with his poem "How to Be a Theologian".
  • Richard Pettigrew – Drunken Flora
    Surfer-poet of Hawaii, Richard Pettigrew, once again swings by The Dewdrop, this time with a botanical tragedy "Drunken Flora".
  • Constance Clark – This Heat Sculpts a Spell
    Allow the summer heat of Constance Clark's "This Heat Sculpts a Spell" soak into you, as her poem unfolds its petals as an ode to connection.
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