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Weekly Haiku

dewdrops: Winter Week 10

March 10, 2025March 10, 2025 Trent Thomson

Winter Week 10 BY ACIE CLARK

Tagged daffodils, flowers, Haiku, patience, seasons, snow, spring, winterLeave a comment
Weekly Haiku

dewdrops: Winter Week 9

March 4, 2025March 4, 2025 Trent Thomson

Winter Week 9 BY SARAH YOUNG

Tagged Death, flowers, Haiku, seasons, winterLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Sarah Karowski – Clumsy

July 7, 2024July 5, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

In Sarah Karowski's imaginative prose poem "Clumsy", we are witness to beauty and magic blooming from the grittiness of hurt.

Tagged flowers, growth, healing, nature, pain, Poem, poet, Poetry, rebirth, rejuvenation, Spiritual GrowthLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Sarah Banks – Zinnia

March 24, 2024March 21, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet and gardener Sarah Banks revels in the sacredness of a blooming flower in "Zinnia", the first poem published by The Dewdrop this spring.

Tagged divinity, flower, flowers, holiness, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, sacredness, spring, springtimeLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Eloise Klein Healy – Iris

May 8, 2022May 5, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Eloise Klein Healy, former Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, has encapsulated so much in the two short stanzas of her poem "Iris".

Tagged blossom, Courage, Death, flowers, growth, healing, love, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, springLeave a comment
Micro Gallery

Gabriela De Paz – Enredadera

October 4, 2021October 4, 2021 Vanessa Able

Gabriela De Paz's flower paintings are portraits of emotions and a homage to the perpetual flux of the human condition.

Tagged color, emotion, flowers, memory, nature, painting, portraitsLeave a comment
Gary Snyder
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Gary Snyder – For the Children

July 1, 2021June 28, 2021 Vanessa Able

Gary Snyder's poem on the healing and enlightenment we need to find as a race in order to once again locate ourselves in earth's valleys and pastures.

Tagged ecology, environment, flowers, hope, nature, Poetry, togetherness6 Comments
Books

Smelling the Flowers in Dogen’s Gardens – Marcia Lieberman’s ‘Clean Slate’

July 25, 2020July 25, 2020 Vanessa Able

Photographer Marcia Lieberman's new book, Clean Slate, is a meditation on nature and temple gardens made in the footsteps of 13th century Japanese Zen master Dogen. 

Tagged art, Dogen, flowers, gardens, hana kotoba, ikebana, nature, photography, PoetryLeave a comment
Jerome Berglund
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Jerome Berglund – Manure

May 14, 2020May 20, 2020 Vanessa Able

Jerome Berglund's poem, Manure, grew from his own practice of sowing and harvesting where he was reminded that compost and dung are always essential to the process of growth and fertilization.

Tagged blossom, flowers, growth, life, manure, order, scat, shit, tattoo, thornsLeave a comment

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