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Featured Poetry

Shayana Foroutan – on a trip to rome, my sister’s friend says i seem like i’d hate christianity

February 8, 2026February 8, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

Shayana Foroutan's gritty and tangible "on a trip to rome, my sister’s friend says i seem like i’d hate christianity" pulls no punches.

Tagged betrayal, blood, Christianity, crucifixion, humanity, jesus, jesus christ, Poem, poet, Poetry, RomeLeave a comment
Micro Gallery

The Anatomy of Moments

June 26, 2025June 23, 2025 Vanessa Able

Hosho McCreesh's visual, lyrical, haiku-like psalms are strikingly beautiful, and always striving for less.

Tagged dark, Haiku, humanity, landscape, loss, love, meaning, photography, Poetry, psalms, struggleLeave a comment
Robert Haas
Poetry

Robert Hass – Faint Music

April 29, 2025April 30, 2025 The Dewdrop

The possibility of a melodious tenderness found within deeper, softer levels of our individual grasping, struggling, imperfect humanity. 

Tagged Freedom, grace, grasping, humanity, melody, music, pain, Suffering, tendernessLeave 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
John Fowles
Book Bits

A Temple of Living Pillars: John Fowles’ Ode to the Sacred and Sensuous Tree

May 21, 2024May 21, 2024 Vanessa Able

Author John Fowles on the ways in which trees and forests formed the bedrock of his own creative, psychic and religious sensibility.

Tagged architecture, creativity, forests, humanity, nature, pillars, religion, sacred, temples, Trees, wildernessLeave 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
Featured Poetry

Ethan Levin – Midrash on Psalm 13

June 4, 2023June 1, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Jewish chaplain Ethan Levin presents a powerful poetic interpretation of a biblical psalm with his "Midrash on Psalm 13".

Tagged ancestors, connection, Death, God, hope, humanity, Judaism, loss, Poem, poet, Poetry, SelfLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Stacey Elza – To Build a Bow

May 21, 2023May 20, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Juxtaposing the antagonistic nature of humanity with the protective and peaceful side, poet Stacey Elza offers readers "To Build a Bow".

Tagged Bible, civilization, human nature, humanity, justice, Karma, peace, Poem, poet, Poetry, warLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Katie Jones – Morning

March 20, 2022March 18, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

A fresh, new, and powerful voice in poetry, Katie Jones offers a morning poem, awakening on a very human world desperately imposing itself on natural orders.

Tagged civilization, constructs, ecology, environment, humanity, morning, Morning Poem, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, sunLeave a comment
Anne Hillman
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Anne Hillman – We Look With Uncertainty

October 1, 2021September 23, 2022 Vanessa Able

Hillman's poem about uncertainty and regeneration acknowledges the vulnerability of human existence 'which is every moment / at the brink of death', standing, waiting, 'learning to love.'

Tagged aliveness, humanity, love, Poetry, uncertainty, vulnerability1 Comment

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