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Featured Poetry

Hyacinth Harlow – kindred

March 2, 2025February 28, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Hyacinth Harlow's powerful "kindred" puts the disparity between hate and love under their poetic lens, revering our human connection.

Tagged connection, hate, human connection, human experience, interaction, Interconnectedness, love, Poem, poet, Poetry, relationship, RelationshipsLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Amelia Schroeder – April 11th

February 23, 2025February 22, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Amelia Schroeder's clear and conversational poem "April 11th" pulses with warmth and curiosity as the narrator inquires of another.

Tagged connection, Joy, listening, motion, movement, Poem, poet, Poetry, relationship, Relationships1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Grant Moser – starings and starvings

February 9, 2025February 7, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Grant Moser's diminutive prose poem "starings and starvings" is disarmingly all-encompassing, a statement that we are alive.

Tagged alive, aliveness, connection, earth, Interconnectedness, life, nature, Poem, poet, PoetryLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Mathieu Cailler – After the Last Human Died

December 22, 2024December 20, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Mathieu Cailler's prose poem "After the Last Human Died" is in fact an ode to togetherness and reconnection.

Tagged connection, Death, destruction, healing, humanity, life, loss, nature, oneness, Poem, poet, Poetry, reconnection, togetherness1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Bilal Hafeez – Catching My Breath

April 14, 2024April 11, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Bilal Hafeez's tremendous piece "Catching My Breath" is a luminous work woven with yellow threads of sunshine and impermanence.

Tagged connection, impermanence, Interconnectedness, Meditation, nature, Pakistan, Poem, poet, Poetry, Punjab1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Khrystia Vengryniuk – Selections from “About My Old White Drake”

March 17, 2024March 18, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Celebrated Ukrainian poet Khrystia Vengryniuk offers three selections from her upcoming poetry collection, About An Old White Drake.

Tagged companionship, connection, Joy, Longing, Poem, poet, Poetry, translated, translation, Ukraine, UkrainianLeave a comment
Karina Lutz
Featured Poetry

Karina Lutz – Encircling earth, the center of our gravity

February 25, 2024November 22, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Peace advocate and poet Karina Lutz brings an epic poem of interconnectedness and peace to readers here at The Dewdrop.

Tagged connection, humanity, Interconnectedness, peace, pilgrimage, pilgrims, Poem, poet, Poetry, purification1 Comment
Kimberly Phinney
Featured Poetry

Kimberly Phinney – Exalted Ground

February 4, 2024November 22, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

In her poem "Exalted Ground", award-winning educator and poet Kimberly Phinney blends the boundaries of holiness and the natural world.

Tagged connection, God, holiness, Interconnectedness, nature, pilgrimage, Poem, poet, Poetry, sacredness6 Comments
Featured Poetry

Christine Andersen – Forest Bathing

January 21, 2024January 18, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Christine Andersen's poem "Forest Bathing" lusciously invites readers into the slow simple peace of the Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku.

Tagged connection, earth, forest, forest bathing, forests, Japan, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, shinrin yoku, slow living, slownessLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Wallace Fong – I Am

October 22, 2023October 19, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Singapore-based poet and academic Wallace Fong proclaims the unity of all things in his simple mantra-like "I Am".

Tagged community, connection, Interconnectedness, nature, part of a whole, Poem, poet, Poetry, Unity, ZenLeave a comment

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- BOOK BITS -

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- POETRY-

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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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