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Featured Poetry

Wanda VanderStoop – Chemin Poulin, Qc

March 1, 2026February 28, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

"Chemin Poulin, Qc" by poet Wanda VanderStoop tantalizes the senses with lush earthiness brimming with abundance and life.

Tagged birds, cycles, earth, earthiness, life, Life is beautiful, nature, Olav Hauge, Poem, poet, Poetry, WaterLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Elias Tucker – Corona del Mar

February 1, 2026January 31, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

Emerging poet Elias Tucker offers much more than a love poem with his "Corona del Mar". He offers praise and gratitude to God.

Tagged awe, beach, california, God, grateful, Gratitude, life, Life is beautiful, love, love poem, ocean, Poem, poet, Poetry, praise, shoreLeave a comment
Book Bits

Mike Travisano – Bob’s Tattoos

October 6, 2025September 28, 2025 Vanessa Able

A short story on the power of three simple words and how much they can mean and embody.

Tagged breath, connection, Death, exhale, inhale, life, meaning, memory, tattoo1 Comment
Weekly Haiku

dewdrops: Summer Week 8

September 1, 2025September 2, 2025 Trent Thomson

Summer Week 8 BY NIHARIKA RAJAN SINHA

Tagged Dreams, flowers, life, pond, roots, Seasonal, summerLeave a comment
Weekly Haiku

dewdrops: Summer Week 7

August 21, 2025August 17, 2025 Trent Thomson

Summer Week 7 BY KIMBERLY HALL

Tagged cicada, earth, grass, life, music, Seasonal, summerLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Trapper Markelz – Final Wishes

May 11, 2025May 10, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Massachusetts poet Trapper Markelz paints a picture of grief and rest in the grey quiet of his poem "Final Wishes".

Tagged burial, Death, final wishes, finality, grief, life, loss, Poem, poet, PoetryLeave 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
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
Featured Poetry

Lou Second – At a party, 1.30 am, blasting music to last

December 1, 2024November 29, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Emerging French poet and artist Lou Second gives us a window into innermost thoughts with his "At a party, 1.30 am, blasting music to last".

Tagged Death, flowing, life, loss, love, memory, Poem, poet, Poetry, wishLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Michael McIrvin – In the Space …

November 3, 2024October 31, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Wyoming poet Michael McIrvin makes holy the simple act of existence, shows us that daily life is perhaps quite miraculous.

Tagged divinity, existence, holiness, life, metaphysics, physics, Poem, poet, Poetry, sacredness, SimplicityLeave a comment

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- BOOK BITS -

  • Rick Ruben
    “Expanding the Universe” – Rick Rubin on Awareness in Creativity
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  • Thich Nhat Hanh
    The First Door of Liberation: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Vision of Emptiness and Interbeing
    Rather than signifying a lack or a void, Thich Nhat Hanh took emptiness to be a state of inextricable and fundamental interconnectedness.
  • Mike Travisano – Bob’s Tattoos
    A short story on the power of three simple words and how much they can mean and embody.
  • Shunryu Suzuki
    Sharing the Feeling: Zen Teacher Shunryu Suzuki on Becoming Ourselves
    The importance of keeping an empty mind for savoring the present and expressing ourselves in our most authentic way.
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- POETRY-

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  • Sarah Reichert – Divine Struggle
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  • Lawrence Bridges – Trees of Ojai
    Poet Lawrence Bridges once again shows readers of The Dewdrop how Zen simplicity and awareness can be a sacred thing.
  • A Year of Kō: 7th Sekki
    7th Sekki poems by JOSEPH PALMER, FRAN SCOTT and ELLIOT DIAMOND
  • Francis Weeks – Taho Buddha
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