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Tag: Interconnectedness

Featured Poetry

Lawrence Bridges – Trees of Ojai

May 24, 2026May 23, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Lawrence Bridges once again shows readers of The Dewdrop how Zen simplicity and awareness can be a sacred thing.

Tagged attention, awareness, connection, Inner Peace, Interconnectedness, naturalistic, nature, Nature and spirituality, nature poem, nature poetry, peace, Poem, poet, Poetry, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Carolyn Chilton Casas – Destiny

February 15, 2026February 14, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

The couplets of Carolyn Chilton Casas' "Destiny" reveal an empowering poetic manifesto of awareness and interconnectedness.

Tagged awareness, belonging, connection, destiny, Identity, Interconnectedness, Moon, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, wildlifeLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Lawrence Bridges – The Concert

August 10, 2025August 10, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Lawrence Bridge's "The Concert" concisely examines a breakdown of interconnectedness in an almost post-apocalyptic way.

Tagged absence, connection, elegy, Emptiness, human connection, Interconnectedness, loss, Poem, poet, Poetry, presence, SelfLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Hyacinth Harlow – kindred

March 2, 2025February 28, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Hyacinth Harlow's powerful "kindred" puts the disparity between hate and love under their poetic lens, revering our human connection.

Tagged connection, hate, human connection, human experience, interaction, Interconnectedness, love, Poem, poet, Poetry, relationship, RelationshipsLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Grant Moser – starings and starvings

February 9, 2025February 7, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Grant Moser's diminutive prose poem "starings and starvings" is disarmingly all-encompassing, a statement that we are alive.

Tagged alive, aliveness, connection, earth, Interconnectedness, life, nature, Poem, poet, PoetryLeave a comment
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Bilal Hafeez – Catching My Breath

April 14, 2024April 11, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Bilal Hafeez's tremendous piece "Catching My Breath" is a luminous work woven with yellow threads of sunshine and impermanence.

Tagged connection, impermanence, Interconnectedness, Meditation, nature, Pakistan, Poem, poet, Poetry, Punjab1 Comment
Karina Lutz
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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
Kimberly Phinney
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Kimberly Phinney – Exalted Ground

February 4, 2024November 22, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

In her poem "Exalted Ground", award-winning educator and poet Kimberly Phinney blends the boundaries of holiness and the natural world.

Tagged connection, God, holiness, Interconnectedness, nature, pilgrimage, Poem, poet, Poetry, sacredness6 Comments
Featured Poetry

Kathryn Kimball – 432Hz

January 28, 2024January 27, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

With Zen-like precision and sparseness, poet Kathryn Kimball leads us down currents of time, connection, and calmness with her poem "432Hz".

Tagged calmness, frequency, Interconnectedness, Meditation, music, Poem, poet, Poetry, time, vibration, Zen2 Comments
Featured Poetry

Betsy Fogelman Tighe – My Spiritual Practice

October 29, 2023October 26, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Through the lens of nature, poet Betsy Fogelman Tighe reveals a practical and inclusive form of worship in "My Spiritual Practice".

Tagged exploration, faith, Interconnectedness, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, religion, spiritual, Spiritual Practice, worship2 Comments

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