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Featured Poetry

Samantha Malay – Harvest

November 17, 2024November 14, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Samantha Malay's impeccable "Harvest" is a poem cultivated in the wild liminal space between seed and bounty.

Tagged growth, harvest, liminal space, loss, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, roots, wild, wildnessLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Chelsea Fraser – October

October 20, 2024October 19, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Finding ourselves here in the depths of October, The Dewdrop is pleased to offer a sonnet by poet Chelsea Fraser, aptly entitled "October".

Tagged autumn, fall, loss, nature, October, Poem, poet, Poetry, rest, Seasonal, Sleep, sonnetLeave a comment
All About Love

The Gift

September 24, 2024September 24, 2024 Vanessa Able

Love, hope, and reality; are woven and wrapped together. BY NANCY FRANCESE

Tagged cancer, chemotherapy, Children, family, Gift, giving, grief, illness, loss, love, presentLeave 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
All About Love

1968

June 26, 2024June 27, 2024 Trent Thomson

During the turbulent times of the late1960s in the United States, a family experiences death, and the dread of war. BY R.J. CHISHOLM

Tagged 1960s, Death, family, grief, loss, martin luther king jr, shock, Vietnam, warLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Nathan Hassall – Perhaps it is Grief

May 26, 2024May 23, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Trancelike, Nathan Hassall's "Perhaps it is Grief" examines death and loss, reveals the interplay between love and endings.

Tagged ending, existence, grief, loss, love, Poem, poet, Poetry, time, UniverseLeave a comment
Interview, Why I Write

Why I Write: Kurt Cole Eidsvig

March 5, 2024March 5, 2024 Vanessa Able

Kurt Cole Eidsvig digs into motivation, poetic strategies, and the mystery of where the arrows of our intentions land.

Tagged addiction, Death, drugs, loss, pandemic, poet, Poetry, strategy, style, WritingLeave a comment
Now and Then
All About Love

Now and Then

February 21, 2024February 20, 2024 Vanessa Able

BY CAMILLE GOODISON - Rediscovering the strength and joy in a family's legacy, and appreciating the similarities and differences.

Tagged cancer, family, fruit, illness, Jamaica, Joy, loss, love, strength1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Nathan Bakken – call it resurrection

January 14, 2024January 18, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Nathan Bakken breaths oxygen into an ember of warmth in a place of stone, darkness, and death with their poem "call it resurrection".

Tagged Death, Gaza, grief, loss, Palestine, patience, Poem, poet, Poetry, Quiet, resurrection, waitingLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Donald Mace Williams – A Translated Passage from “Beowulf”

January 7, 2024January 4, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Donald Mace Williams breathes new light into the 10th century Old English epic poem Beowulf, written in iambic meter.

Tagged Beowulf, Death, loss, Norse, Old English, Old Norse, Poem, poet, Poetry, revenge, translated, translationLeave a comment

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