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.
Tag: humanity
The Anatomy of Moments
Hosho McCreesh's visual, lyrical, haiku-like psalms are strikingly beautiful, and always striving for less.
Robert Hass – Faint Music
The possibility of a melodious tenderness found within deeper, softer levels of our individual grasping, struggling, imperfect humanity.
Mathieu Cailler – After the Last Human Died
Mathieu Cailler's prose poem "After the Last Human Died" is in fact an ode to togetherness and reconnection.
A Temple of Living Pillars: John Fowles’ Ode to the Sacred and Sensuous Tree
Author John Fowles on the ways in which trees and forests formed the bedrock of his own creative, psychic and religious sensibility.
Karina Lutz – Encircling earth, the center of our gravity
Peace advocate and poet Karina Lutz brings an epic poem of interconnectedness and peace to readers here at The Dewdrop.
Ethan Levin – Midrash on Psalm 13
Jewish chaplain Ethan Levin presents a powerful poetic interpretation of a biblical psalm with his "Midrash on Psalm 13".
Stacey Elza – To Build a Bow
Juxtaposing the antagonistic nature of humanity with the protective and peaceful side, poet Stacey Elza offers readers "To Build a Bow".
Katie Jones – Morning
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.
Anne Hillman – We Look With Uncertainty
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.'