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Featured Poetry

Pamela Wax – Dear Mayor

August 31, 2025August 30, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

The prose poem "Dear Mayor" by Massachusetts poet Pamela Wax immerses us in layers of spiritual practice, grief, loss, and longing.

Tagged balance, Death, Devotion, grief, Longing, loss, Meditation, Poem, poet, Poetry, spiritual, Spiritual Practice, SpiritualityLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Ryan Diaz – Our Lady of Longing

July 6, 2025July 3, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

The Dewdrop once again features work from New York poet and theologian Ryan Diaz, who threads the needle between desire and purity.

Tagged conflicted, connection, desire, holiness, holy, human experience, human nature, Longing, Poem, poet, Poetry, repression, sacred, sacredness, sensual, sensuality, Virgin MaryLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Karlié Rodríguez – Slashed by the Swamp

September 8, 2024September 5, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

In her prose poem "Slashed by the Swamp", Karlié Rodríguez allows readers into the swamp for a peek at the tragedy of want.

Tagged Death, heartbreak, impossibilities, limits, Longing, loss, love, Poem, poet, Poetry, swamp1 Comment
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Book Bits

‘How Can I Best Serve the World?’: Brother David Steindl-Rast on Finding Our True Vocation

March 21, 2024March 21, 2024 Vanessa Able

Brother David on doing what you love, being aware of your gifts, and bringing your best self to the table.

Tagged bliss, discernment, gifts, Gratitude, Longing, Silence, vocation, WisdomLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Khrystia Vengryniuk – Selections from “About My Old White Drake”

March 17, 2024March 18, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Celebrated Ukrainian poet Khrystia Vengryniuk offers three selections from her upcoming poetry collection, About An Old White Drake.

Tagged companionship, connection, Joy, Longing, Poem, poet, Poetry, translated, translation, Ukraine, UkrainianLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Kai-Lilly Karpman – On Want

July 16, 2023July 13, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Kai-Lilly Karpman unleashes another salvo against a violent patriarchy in her revelatory and melancholy "On Want".

Tagged femininity, feminism, gender, God, inequality, Longing, misogyny, patriarchy, Poem, poet, Poetry, want, womanhoodLeave a comment
All About Love

On Being Plan B

September 23, 2021September 23, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY ELIZABETH BLUE The car that had been broken into wasn't mine. It wasn't his, either. Technically it belonged to his girlfriend – his primary partner of fifteen years.

Tagged ambiguity, difficulty, friendship, Longing, love, monogamy, polyamory, relationship, togetherness, triangulation1 Comment
Book Bits

Rebecca Solnit’s Blue of Distance

January 17, 2020December 29, 2020 Vanessa Able

Solnit pays tribute to the color that fills the space between herself and the object of her longing, and reflects on how this blue can in some ways be understood as love itself.

Tagged 2020, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Blue, Distance, Longing, love, Rebecca Solnit, The Blue of Distance3 Comments

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- BOOK BITS -

  • Chop Wood, Carry Water: Scott Berkun on Finding Amazement in Ordinary Life
    A classic Zen koan shows that true presence isn't an escape from the ordinary work - and delight - of being human.
  • Don’t Waste Suffering: Ramiro López Larroy on Opening the Doors of Liberation
    How can we use the things that give us difficulty in our lives to learn and grow, rather than avoiding them, or trying to push them away?
  • Rick Ruben
    “Expanding the Universe” – Rick Rubin on Awareness in Creativity
    What is the role of awareness in creativity and how can we cultivate it to make our world a bigger and clearer place?
  • 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
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- POETRY-

  • Nathan Hassall – Write a simple poem, my wife said, so I wrote a short one
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  • Shaomei Yu – The Closed Door
    Chinese-American poet Shaomei Yu reflects on loss and transition with Zen-like sparseness in her poem "The Closed Door".
  • Claudia Kessel – Samsara
    In her epic "Samsara", poet Claudia Kessel leans the ancient tenants of Buddhism against the gritty reality of the 21st Century.
  • A Year of Kō: 16th Sekki
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