Skip to content
The Dewdrop Logo

The Dewdrop

read deep, breathe easy

  • Poetry
  • Book Bits
  • OTHER SECTIONS
    • Featured Writing
    • Weekly Haiku
    • All About Love
    • Why I Write
    • Way-Seeking Mind
    • Micro Gallery
    • Sutras
    • Koans
  • Newsletter
  • ABOUT
    • Contact
    • Work With Us
    • Submissions
    • About The Dewdrop: Who We Are
  • SUPPORT

Tag: loss

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

Lawrence Bridges – The Concert

August 10, 2025August 10, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Lawrence Bridge's "The Concert" concisely examines a breakdown of interconnectedness in an almost post-apocalyptic way.

Tagged absence, connection, elegy, Emptiness, human connection, Interconnectedness, loss, Poem, poet, Poetry, presence, SelfLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Benne van der Velde – Cheers

June 29, 2025June 26, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Prolific Dutch creative Benne van der Velde lets us in as witnesses to coming to terms with grief in his poem "Cheers".

Tagged cancer, gods, grief, loss, love, names, Poem, poet, Poetry, powerLeave a comment
Micro Gallery

The Anatomy of Moments

June 26, 2025June 23, 2025 Vanessa Able

Hosho McCreesh's visual, lyrical, haiku-like psalms are strikingly beautiful, and always striving for less.

Tagged dark, Haiku, humanity, landscape, loss, love, meaning, photography, Poetry, psalms, struggleLeave a comment
All About Love

Telomeres: A Strange Fate

June 19, 2025June 18, 2025 Vanessa Able

Love, loss and the biology of endings. BY DAVID WHITEHURST

Tagged cancer, dog, grief, illness, loss, love, memory, pet, telomeres, transitionLeave 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

Samuel Gilpin – Do You Ever Have the Feeling That the World’s Gone and Left You Behind

April 20, 2025April 18, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Samuel Gilpin's poem "Do You Ever Have the Feeling That the World's Gone and Left You Behind" is a catalyst to conclusion and reality.

Tagged abandonment, Loneliness, loss, Poem, poet, Poetry, Reality, Solitude, Stillness, sunsetLeave a comment
Weekly Haiku

dewdrops: Spring Week 2

April 14, 2025April 3, 2025 Trent Thomson

Spring Week 2 BY KATHRYN KIMBALL

Tagged Haiku, loss, moss, Seasonal, springLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Beatrice Szymkowiak – Cloudlessness

March 9, 2025March 7, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Beatrice Szymkowiak's stark piece "Cloudlessness" feels as cold and desolate as the imagery it reveals to us.

Tagged Emptiness, empty, loss, minimalism, Poem, poet, Poetry, stark, winter, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Kristine Amundrud – Acreage Song

January 19, 2025January 18, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Time and loss isn't ever too far off in Kristine Amundrud's "Acreage Song", but neither is life and resiliency.

Tagged Death, family, grief, healing, loss, mythology, nature, Nordic, Poem, poet, Poetry, rural, winter, wintertime5 Comments

Posts navigation

Older posts
Newer posts

TOP POSTS

  • Alison Luterman - Canoe
    Alison Luterman - Canoe
  • This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
    Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
  • Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
    Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
  • Billy Collins - The Dead
    Billy Collins - The Dead
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • Wendell Berry - To Know The Dark
    Wendell Berry - To Know The Dark
  • Philip Booth - First Lesson
    Philip Booth - First Lesson
  • Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
    Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
  • Chop Wood, Carry Water: Scott Berkun on Finding Amazement in Ordinary Life
    Chop Wood, Carry Water: Scott Berkun on Finding Amazement in Ordinary Life

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


- POETRY-

  • Alison Luterman – Canoe
    In her poem "Canoe," Alison Luterman explores how luminous memories anchor us into the marvellous moments of our lives.
  • Nathan Hassall – Write a simple poem, my wife said, so I wrote a short one
    Poet Nathan Hassall's "Write a simple poem, my wife said, so I wrote a short one" transcends the small confines of its verbiage into the enormity of universal divinity.
  • A Year of Kō: 17th Sekki
    17th Sekki poems by BOB RAMA, COLEMAN DAVIS and SHAOMEI YU
  • 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.
The Dewdrop
Proudly powered by WordPress Theme: Dara.
Loading Comments...