healing Archives - The Dewdrop

Poet Pesha Gertler's ode to healing: "Finally on my way to yes / I bump into / all the places / where I said no"

James Wright – Trying to Pray

James Wright's poem contains the healing tenderness that arises during our times of sorrow and struggle.

According to Joseph Fasano, care for one's soul is a multi-dimensional, deeply humane, and reverential process.

With primal surrealism, poet Carsten Czarnecki serves as a guide into a sort of dark mysticism in his poem "Hunter's Curse & Cure".

With their poem "May You Wake with Goodness", Lebanese-American poet Moudi Sbeity extends the kindness of an Arabic blessing.

With her three-part poem "Soul-Cloud of a Son", poet Aviyah Abrams wanders the tragic contours of loss through the radiance of verse.

Adam Oyster-Sands' "Sunrise Over the Willamette" is a rejuvenating poem, reminding us that the world is beautiful, despite everything.

Time and loss isn't ever too far off in Kristine Amundrud's "Acreage Song", but neither is life and resiliency.

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

A spiritual journey into raising a child with special needs. BY PATRICE BAVOS