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Featured Poetry

Kit Evans – When We Go to That Museum You Liked

March 27, 2022March 24, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Like the all-encompassing color field paintings of Mark Rothko mentioned in Kit Evans' poem, this little piece commands our attention, while also leaving things unsaid.

Tagged art, artwork, healing, innocence, loss, love, parenthood, Poem, poet, PoetryLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Ryan Diaz – Saint Hubert and the Deer

January 30, 2022January 29, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Ryan Diaz's poem, St. Hubert and the Deer, offers readers a glimpse at the crucial moment in the life of Saint Hubert--the precipice of the choice between slaughter and mercy.

Tagged Christian philosophy, Christianity, God, guilt, innocence, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, remorse, Saint, saintsLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Katie Bowers – Even Though I Am Weary of Church Pews, She Is Not

August 15, 2021August 13, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Written during the peak of the pandemic, Katie Bowers' poem touches on the challenges of faith and belief, parenting and childhood.

Tagged Belief, blessing, chakra, childhood, Children, faith, innocence, openness, parenthood, piousness, Poem, Poetry, Spirituality1 Comment
Way-Seeking Mind

Esso Station

September 24, 2020September 24, 2020 Vanessa Able

BY SUSAN DI RENDE It was the summer of 1959. I was four years old, sitting in the back of my parents’ Rambler driving down Route 60 past motels, restaurants, and gas stations.

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All About Love

Champions

September 8, 2020September 8, 2020 Vanessa Able

BY VANESSA ABLE Since before they could talk, they knew. The fearlessness of a pre-schooler's heart that knows no endings.

Tagged Children, Courage, fearlessness, innocence, loss, love3 Comments
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TOP POSTS

  • Naomi Shihab Nye - Burning the Old Year
    Naomi Shihab Nye - Burning the Old Year
  • Mary Oliver - Wild Geese
    Mary Oliver - Wild Geese
  • Kahlil Gibran - Fear
    Kahlil Gibran - Fear
  • Shunryu Suzuki's Waterfall - On Separation and Death
    Shunryu Suzuki's Waterfall - On Separation and Death
  • What Can the Earth's Crisis Teach Us About Ourselves? David Hinton's Tao of Ecology
    What Can the Earth's Crisis Teach Us About Ourselves? David Hinton's Tao of Ecology
  • The Path that Goes Nowhere - Barbara Brown Taylor on the Practice of Labyrinth Walking
    The Path that Goes Nowhere - Barbara Brown Taylor on the Practice of Labyrinth Walking
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
    What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
  • Pablo Neruda - The Sea
    Pablo Neruda - The Sea
  • Issa - This Dewdrop World
    Issa - This Dewdrop World

- BOOK BITS -

  • Barbara Brown Taylor
    The Path that Goes Nowhere – Barbara Brown Taylor on the Practice of Labyrinth Walking
    Barbara Brown Taylor reflects on her own experience of Labyrinth-walking and the significance of the path without a destination.
  • David Hinton
    What Can the Earth’s Crisis Teach Us About Ourselves? David Hinton’s Tao of Ecology
    David Hinton on what Taoism can teach us about Deep Ecology and how we can reconnect with our own ancient Paleolithic roots.
  • Virginia Woolf
    ‘When the Lights of Health Go Down’- Virginia Woolf on Being Ill
    Virginia Woolf on our relationship to illness, its potential spiritual value, and the mysterious intelligence of the body.
  • Alan Watts
    Life Includes All Opposites – Alan Watts on the Oneness of the Tao
    The psychology of acceptance and the understanding 'that there is only one ultimate reality or source of activity in the universe.'
  • The Sacred Pulse of Night and Day
    Deborah Eden Tull explores the experience of darkness and how it can be a transformative and expansive human experience.


- POETRY-

  • David Cravens – American Zen
    David Cravens' epic poem "American Zen" counts as one of the more ambitious works ever published in The Dewdrop.
  • Kahlil Gibran
    Kahlil Gibran – Fear
    Kahlil Gibran's poem on the fear of dissipation is a call to faith, to trust in the oceanic nature of the life-manifesting force.
  • Will Simescu – Agrapha
    Will Simescu's "Agrapha" reveals a search for holiness, contrasting the gritty details of reality with imagery from the life of Christ.
  • Emily Fernandez – Please begin
    The Dewdrop's first Featured Poem of 2023, is an offering from poet Emily Fernandez. It serves as a perfect introduction to the year.
  • Naomi Shihab Nye – Burning the Old Year
    Naomi Shihab Nye's poem for the New Year is reminiscent of the tradition of 'Año Nuevo' in some Latin American countries.
 

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