BY PAMELA AYO YETUNDE - A retelling of the Buddhist legend of Kisa Gotami, bereaved mother Keisha comes to a Buddhist Monastery for guidance.
Tag: loss
Liam Wholihan – Elegy for a Virgin-Born Bonnethead Shark Pup
Poet Liam Wholihan offers a lament for several different things in his complex "Elegy for a Virgin-Born Bonnethead Shark Pup".
Ethan Levin – Midrash on Psalm 13
Jewish chaplain Ethan Levin presents a powerful poetic interpretation of a biblical psalm with his "Midrash on Psalm 13".
Why I Write: Jenna Wysong Filbrun
In the wake of her new collection, Away, we reached out to poet Jenna Wysong Filbrun to find out more about her motivations and process.
Danielle Pieratti – Rubric for Burying a Hen
Danielle Pieratti's 'Rubric for Burying a Hen' is a heartbreaking account of what it is to fail to sustain someone or something in our care.
Deborah Schwartz – Brother
Deborah Schwartz's "Brother" is a poem yearning and pleading for connection, amidst the background notes of time slipping ceaselessly by.
Regina Dilgen – Meditation on Thomas Merton’s Hermitage
Regina Dilgen's exquisite "Meditation on Thomas Merton's Hermitage" imagines American monastic Thomas Merton worn by grief and inspired to write.
How We Live Is How We Die: Pema Chödrön on Preparing for Death Here and Now
Pema Chödrön on what the Tibetan approach to living and dying can teach us about liberation in the present moment.
Ziyong Chengru – Ten Verses
Chinese Nun Ziyong Chengru on the pain of parting and how to draw solace from the cyclical nature of time and landscape.
David Cravens – American Zen
David Cravens' epic poem "American Zen" counts as one of the more ambitious works ever published in The Dewdrop.