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Featured Poetry

Patrick Trombly – Betsy

October 19, 2025October 17, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Re-emerging poet Patrick Trombly wakes us up and smears us with light and disarray with his postmodern poem "Betsy".

Tagged awaken, God, Gratitude, Light, morning, Morning Poem, Poem, poet, Poetry, thankfulness, wake, wakingLeave a comment
Poetry

Heather Swan – Another Day Filled with Sleeves of Light

October 10, 2025September 28, 2025 Sam Shapiro

In our time alive, what if we trusted just as the falling raindrop trusts the holding of the approaching ocean?

Tagged faith, Joy, letting go, Light, lily, nature, nourishment, ocean, plant, trust1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Adam Oyster-Sands – Sunrise Over the Willamette

August 24, 2025August 24, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Adam Oyster-Sands' "Sunrise Over the Willamette" is a rejuvenating poem, reminding us that the world is beautiful, despite everything.

Tagged healing, Light, morning, Morning Poem, Poem, poet, Poetry, rejuvenation, resurrection, sun, sunlight, sunrise, wellnessLeave a comment
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Weekly Haiku

dewdrops: Summer Week 1

July 9, 2025July 9, 2025 Trent Thomson

Summer Week 1 BY JACK COLDICOTT

Tagged Fire, grass, komorebi, Light, Seasonal, summer, sunlightLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Max Nobis – Sweetness Defined

June 15, 2025June 14, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Cleveland poet Max Nobis unspools an ode to Helen, a figure of radiance and mirth, an avatar worthy of adoration.

Tagged Compassion, Kindness, Light, love, motherhood, ode, Poem, poet, Poetry, prose poemLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Matthew Kohut – Rothko Chapel

June 8, 2025June 7, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Matthew Kohut allows readers to contemplate the contrast of darkness and light in the powerful minimalism of his poem "Rothko Chapel".

Tagged art, contrast, Darkness, juxtaposition, Light, light and dark, Mark Rothko, Meditation, Poem, poet, Poetry, Rothko Chapel, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Lily Tobias – Dawn Diminutive

May 18, 2025May 16, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

The simple purity of Lily Tobias' "Dawn Diminutive" is an elegant invitation to slow down and witness the honeyed radiance of morning.

Tagged dawn, Light, Meditation, morning, Optimism, Poem, poet, Poetry, Simplicity, slow living, time, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Gary Fox – Dissolve

February 16, 2025February 14, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

"Dissolve" by poet Gary Fox is a place poem, woven with the interplay of stillness and motion, light emptying into darkness.

Tagged birds, fading, Light, nature, night, nightfall, Poem, poet, Poetry, Silence, Stillness1 Comment
Weekly Haiku

dewdrops: Winter Week 1

January 17, 2025January 17, 2025 Trent Thomson

Winter Week 1 BY AGNES CARTRY

Tagged Haiku, Light, nature, Silence, winterLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Jerrice J. Baptiste – If In Search of Bliss

January 12, 2025January 10, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

As we embark on this new year, Haitian-born poet Jerrice J. Baptiste directs us to trust the renewal and healing properties of radiance.

Tagged bliss, dawn, illumination, Light, love, Poem, poet, Poetry, radiance, sun, sunshine, trustLeave a comment

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