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Weekly Haiku

dewdrops: Autumn Week 13

January 2, 2025December 29, 2024 Trent Thomson

Autumn Week 13 BY JAMES PENHA

Tagged autumn, evergreens, fall, forest, Haiku, Light, nature1 Comment
Weekly Haiku

dewdrops: Autumn Week 12

December 29, 2024December 29, 2024 Vanessa Able

Autumn Week 12 BY BEATRIU DELAVADA

Tagged autumn, evergreens, fall, forest, Haiku, Light, natureLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Lindsay Rockwell – Watching the Light Shift

June 18, 2023June 15, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Both revelatory and mysterious, Lindsay Rockwell's "Watching the Light Shift" shows us the path without giving us the answers.

Tagged attention, awareness, God, Light, observation, openness, perception, Poem, poet, Poetry, presence, senses, sensoryLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Ricardo Gonzalez-Rothi – Faraway, near Nordfjordeid

May 14, 2023May 12, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Redolent with the folklore of the cold north, Cuban-American poet Ricardo Gonzalez-Rothi offers a magical poem, "Faraway, near Nordfjordeid".

Tagged change, fantasy, folklore, Light, myth, mythology, Norway, Poem, poet, Poetry, Scandinavia, solstice, transformationLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Kathryn Weld – Is the Sun Conscious

December 4, 2022December 1, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

In Kathryn Weld's "Is the Sun Conscious", readers are presented with a feminine and motherly sun, and the desolation of her absence.

Tagged absence, Light, loss, mother, motherhood, Poem, poet, Poetry, sun, the sunLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Hiatt O’Connor – Waiting for Gravity

March 6, 2022March 3, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Seemingly a lesson in simplicity and silence, Hiatt O'Connor's wonderful poem Waiting for Gravity is, in fact, a work of layers.

Tagged complexity, Light, Meditation, peace, Poem, poet, Poetry, Quiet, Simplicity, Stillness, tension, Tranquility, ZenLeave a comment
Wendy Blaxland
Featured Poetry

Wendy Blaxland – That Wind

May 23, 2021May 23, 2021 Vanessa Able

For Wendy Blaxland, That Wind is a poetic response to what happens in her immediate natural world.

Tagged Fear, Freedom, Light, nature, weather, windLeave a comment
Stephen Dunn
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Stephen Dunn – Allegory of the Cave

March 31, 2021March 31, 2021 Vanessa Able

Stephen Dunn imagines the loneliness of the visionary who captures a radical truth but is unable to communicate what he has seen and understood to his fellow prisoners.

Tagged Communication, epiphany, knowledge, Light, plato's cave, Poetry2 Comments
Micro Gallery

Cynthia Ruse – The In-Between

March 23, 2021March 22, 2021 Vanessa Able

Cynthia Ruse's The In-Between reflects the parallel and layered elements of life, where light and darkness are blurred and the narrative of a painting becomes experience in itself.

Tagged art, Darkness, Experience, layer, Light, painting, space2 Comments
Emma Wynn
Featured Poetry

Emma Wynn – Sitting Dawn

February 28, 2021February 27, 2021 Vanessa Able

Emma Wynn's poem inspired by a dawn meditation.

Tagged Darkness, dawn, Light1 Comment

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