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Featured Poetry

Constance Clark – This Heat Sculpts a Spell

July 26, 2026July 26, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

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.

Tagged companionship, connection, heat, intensity, ko, life, micro seasons, Poem, poet, Poetry, Seasonal, seasons, Solitude, summerLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Lawrence Bridges – Trees of Ojai

May 24, 2026May 23, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Lawrence Bridges once again shows readers of The Dewdrop how Zen simplicity and awareness can be a sacred thing.

Tagged attention, awareness, connection, Inner Peace, Interconnectedness, naturalistic, nature, Nature and spirituality, nature poem, nature poetry, peace, Poem, poet, Poetry, ZenLeave a comment
Micro Gallery

Objects of Contemplation

April 20, 2026April 25, 2026 Vanessa Able

Loretta Staples' series of artworks created at a Zen center are filled with mysterious resonance and connection.

Tagged art, connection, contemplation, drawing, meaning, Meditation, painting, ZenLeave a comment
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
Featured Poetry

Drema Drudge – Mutual Mass

October 26, 2025October 24, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

In her poem "Mutual Mass", Drema Drudge introduces us to a god who takes solace in her pilgrims in the way they take solace in her.

Tagged connection, fellowship, God, human experience, Poem, poet, Poetry, purpose, Silence, Solace, wearyLeave a comment
Book Bits

Mike Travisano – Bob’s Tattoos

October 6, 2025September 28, 2025 Vanessa Able

A short story on the power of three simple words and how much they can mean and embody.

Tagged breath, connection, Death, exhale, inhale, life, meaning, memory, tattoo1 Comment
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Poetry

Mary Oliver – To Begin With, the Sweetgrass

August 29, 2025September 17, 2025 Sam Shapiro

Great wisdom may be addition by subtraction - by releasing our preoccupation with individual identity, we enter a vast and bountiful connection with all of life.

Tagged connection, contemplation, love, Poem, poet, Poetry, sweetgrass, Wisdom1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Diana Button – At the Watering Hole

August 17, 2025August 16, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Unity and connection are the revelations inherent in "At the Watering Hole", a poem by spiritual poet Diana Button.

Tagged Buddhism, connection, doubt, illusion, inclusion, oneness, Poem, poet, Poetry, Self, self-doubt, UnityLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Lawrence Bridges – The Concert

August 10, 2025August 10, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Lawrence Bridge's "The Concert" concisely examines a breakdown of interconnectedness in an almost post-apocalyptic way.

Tagged absence, connection, elegy, Emptiness, human connection, Interconnectedness, loss, Poem, poet, Poetry, presence, SelfLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Ryan Diaz – Our Lady of Longing

July 6, 2025July 3, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

The Dewdrop once again features work from New York poet and theologian Ryan Diaz, who threads the needle between desire and purity.

Tagged conflicted, connection, desire, holiness, holy, human experience, human nature, Longing, Poem, poet, Poetry, repression, sacred, sacredness, sensual, sensuality, Virgin MaryLeave a comment

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  • 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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