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Featured Poetry

Dolo Diaz – Morning Walk in the Marsh

September 21, 2025September 20, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

In "Morning Walk in the Marsh" poet Dolo Diaz pulls the quiet hush of gently stirring nature over us like a soft quilt.

Tagged dawn, marsh, morning, Morning Poem, nature, nature poem, nature poetry, Poem, poet, Poetry, Stillness, wakingLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Lily Tobias – Dawn Diminutive

May 18, 2025May 16, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

The simple purity of Lily Tobias' "Dawn Diminutive" is an elegant invitation to slow down and witness the honeyed radiance of morning.

Tagged dawn, Light, Meditation, morning, Optimism, Poem, poet, Poetry, Simplicity, slow living, time, ZenLeave a comment
WS Merwin
Poetry

W.S. Merwin – Rain Travel

February 6, 2025January 30, 2025 Sam Shapiro

The influence of Buddhist thought is evident in much of W.S. Merwin’s writing.

Tagged dark, dawn, journey, leaves, night, Poem, Poetry, rain, Travel1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Jerrice J. Baptiste – If In Search of Bliss

January 12, 2025January 10, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

As we embark on this new year, Haitian-born poet Jerrice J. Baptiste directs us to trust the renewal and healing properties of radiance.

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Nocturne by Harry Bauld
Micro Gallery

The Pitch of Color

November 22, 2024November 25, 2024 Vanessa Able

Harry Bauld's thick, colorful canvases are intensely observed landscape paintings of the natural spaces and hues in New York and Connecticut.

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Featured Poetry

Bethany Reid – Morning at Glen Cove

April 30, 2023April 28, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Like the Psalm that opens her poem, Bethany Reid invites us to praise and rejoice with her poem "Morning at Glen Cove".

Tagged animals, awaken, Awakening, dawn, morning, Morning Poem, nature, nature writing, Poem, poet, Poetry, praise, waking, wildlifeLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Lawrence Bridges – Lake Hughes Road

June 12, 2022June 11, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Los Angeles poet Lawrence Bridges makes his return to The Dewdrop with the disarmingly quiet and sparse "Lake Hughes Road".

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Emma Wynn
Featured Poetry

Emma Wynn – Sitting Dawn

February 28, 2021February 27, 2021 Vanessa Able

Emma Wynn's poem inspired by a dawn meditation.

Tagged Darkness, dawn, Light1 Comment
Micro Gallery

Katya Belena – Dawn Dusk

February 10, 2021February 11, 2021 Vanessa Able

Katya Belena's Micro Gallery exhibit Dawn Dusk is an invitation to stay in the changing moment of transition like a darkening or lightening sky.

Tagged change, dawn, dusk, moment, transition1 Comment
Clifford Venho
Featured, Featured Poetry

Clifford Venho – Forest of the Unsung

July 5, 2020July 5, 2020 Vanessa Able

Clifford Venho's Forest of the Unsung, marks the magical transition in a rich and dark forest setting from night into a day that is like 'a book waiting to be read.' 

Tagged awareness, dawn, forest, music, night, transcendence, transitionLeave a comment

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- BOOK BITS -

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  • Thich Nhat Hanh
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    Rather than signifying a lack or a void, Thich Nhat Hanh took emptiness to be a state of inextricable and fundamental interconnectedness.
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  • Francis Weeks – Taho Buddha
    "Taho Buddha" by poet Francis Weeks is a minimalist poem which explores a pivotal moment in Nichiren Buddhism.
  • Regina Gort-Betances – (Mother) Bear
    Regina Gort-Betances' "(Mother) Bear" is a wild and mournful study of loss and grief, written on a canvas of bone, blood, and root.
  • A Year of Kō: 6th Sekki
    6th Sekki poems by MADISON WILLIAMS, JOSEPH PALMER and COLEMAN DAVIS

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