Skip to content
The Dewdrop Logo

The Dewdrop

read deep, breathe easy

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

Tag: COVID-19

Tishani Doshi
Uncategorized

Tishani Doshi – Hope is the Thing

October 15, 2021October 12, 2021 Vanessa Able

Tishani Doshi's poem pays homage to a twelve-year-old girl who died of exhaustion last year during the Covid-19 lockdown.

Tagged birds, COVID-19, Death, hope, nature, pandemic, Poetry, tragedy1 Comment
Ellen Skilton
Featured Poetry

Ellen Skilton – Like Every Good Thing

June 13, 2021June 13, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Ellen Skilton's poem offers poignant words that touch on a universal feeling experienced by humanity in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic - the sacredness of human interaction.

Tagged community, connection, COVID, COVID-19, gather, holiness, humanity, isolation, pandemic, togethernessLeave a comment
Erin Pickersgill
Featured Poetry

Erin Pickersgill – For the Pleasure

January 31, 2021February 7, 2021 Vanessa Able

"As the boundaries closed in, and still do, I notice that my world is large and detailed enough to locate all of my questions, and for that I am thankful."

Tagged COVID-19, home, lockdown, nature, spider, webLeave a comment
Susan Cummins Miller
Featured, Featured Poetry

Susan Cummins Miller – Pandemic Aubade, Sonoran Desert

August 23, 2020August 23, 2020 Vanessa Able

Susan Cummins Miller's poem grew out of her interaction with the Sonoran Desert, and the many months she spent in solitude and contemplation at The Desert House of Prayer in Arizona.

Tagged contemplation, Coronavirus, COVID-19, desert, pandemic, SolitudeLeave a comment
Holly Kelso
Featured

Holly Kelso – Suspended

May 10, 2020May 20, 2020 Vanessa Able

Holly Kelso's Suspended takes place in the space of a pause, walks during a period of isolation near the poet's home at the base of a mountain, and at the edge of both a desert and a lake.

Tagged COVID-19, metaphor, nature, pause, quarantine, Suspension, walkingLeave a comment
Kurt Cole Eidsvig
Featured

Kurt Cole Eidsvig – Seasonal

April 20, 2020January 18, 2022 Vanessa Able

Kurt Cole Eidsvig's poem Seasonal is an ode to the goddess Persephone whose twin connections to both spring and death provide the framework for a personal connection to distance, love, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tagged Coronavirus, COVID-19, Death, isolation, Kurt Cole Eidsvig, Persephone, Seasonal, spring, touch1 Comment
Support The Dewdrop
SIGN UP FOR EMAILS

TOP POSTS

  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • Mary Oliver - Wild Geese
    Mary Oliver - Wild Geese
  • Pablo Neruda - The Sea
    Pablo Neruda - The Sea
  • Bankei and the Unborn
    Bankei and the Unborn
  • Seamus Heaney - The Peninsula
    Seamus Heaney - The Peninsula
  • Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
    Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
  • What is True Freedom?
    What is True Freedom?
  • What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
    What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
  • Billy Collins - The Dead
    Billy Collins - The Dead
  • Letting Go of Hope - Pema Chodron
    Letting Go of Hope - Pema Chodron

- BOOK BITS -

  • Orhan Pamuk
    Orhan Pamuk on Writing By Hand
    Orhan Pamuk's hand-writing habit hasn't budged, despite the conventions of our time.
  • Pema Chodron
    How We Live Is How We Die: Pema Chödrön on Preparing for Death Here and Now
    Pema Chödrön on what the Tibetan approach to living and dying can teach us about liberation in the present moment.
  • Barbara Brown Taylor
    The Path that Goes Nowhere – Barbara Brown Taylor on the Practice of Labyrinth Walking
    Barbara Brown Taylor reflects on her own experience of Labyrinth-walking and the significance of the path without a destination.
  • David Hinton
    What Can the Earth’s Crisis Teach Us About Ourselves? David Hinton’s Tao of Ecology
    David Hinton on what Taoism can teach us about Deep Ecology and how we can reconnect with our own ancient Paleolithic roots.
  • Virginia Woolf
    ‘When the Lights of Health Go Down’- Virginia Woolf on Being Ill
    Virginia Woolf on our relationship to illness, its potential spiritual value, and the mysterious intelligence of the body.


- POETRY-

  • Ronán P. Berry – On The Mountain of Forth
    "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.
  • Regina Dilgen – Meditation on Thomas Merton’s Hermitage
    Regina Dilgen's exquisite "Meditation on Thomas Merton's Hermitage" imagines American monastic Thomas Merton worn by grief and inspired to write.
  • Orhan Pamuk
    Orhan Pamuk on Writing By Hand
    Orhan Pamuk's hand-writing habit hasn't budged, despite the conventions of our time.
  • Mike Christie – Knock Knock Knock
    A narrative of a woodpecker at work on a tree expands to the oneness of all things in Mike Christie's "Knock Knock Knock".
  • Quincy Gray McMichael – After Portugal
    In the vivid "After Portugal", the simple act of doing a load of laundry after returning home from time abroad brings back moonlit memories
 

Loading Comments...