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Featured Poetry

Sheila Lynch-Benttinen – Equations

September 17, 2023September 15, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Massachusetts poet Sheila Lynch-Benttinen's "Equations" is a work of heavy content, juxtaposed with simple elegance and sparseness.

Tagged aging, choice, life, life-and-death, love, Poem, poet, Poetry, timeLeave a comment
All About Love

Öö

August 26, 2023August 24, 2023 Vanessa Able

BY ÇILER İLHAN - What seems like a flame, passion or romance perhaps is actually love, emerging in various forms, shapes, and levels of existence. If you believe in it.

Tagged affair, desire, fiction, love, romance, short storyLeave a comment
Danielle Pieratti
Poetry

Danielle Pieratti – Rubric for Burying a Hen

May 7, 2023May 7, 2023 Vanessa Able

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.

Tagged Death, loss, love, motherhood, parenthood, self-acceptanceLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Deborah Schwartz – Brother

April 16, 2023April 14, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Deborah Schwartz's "Brother" is a poem yearning and pleading for connection, amidst the background notes of time slipping ceaselessly by.

Tagged brother, connection, family, Interconnectedness, legacy, loss, love, Poem, poet, Poetry, time, yearningLeave a comment
Jane Hirshfield
Poetry

Jane Hirshfield – For What Binds Us

March 8, 2023March 8, 2023 Vanessa Able

What it is that brings us together, binds our relationships and heals our wounds, even beyond the limits of our own agency?

Tagged forces, gravity, love, Poem, proud flesh, relationship, scars, wounds1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Aeris Walker – Good and Wild and Wonderful

February 12, 2023February 23, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Aeris Walker's "Good and Wild and Wonderful" is a prose poem of vast enormity, of the creation of all things.

Tagged beauty, birth, Creation, Genesis, life, love, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, prose poemLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

David Cravens – American Zen

January 22, 2023January 22, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

David Cravens' epic poem "American Zen" counts as one of the more ambitious works ever published in The Dewdrop.

Tagged Beat Poetry, Beat Zen, divinity, loss, love, Poem, poet, Poetry, searching, seeking, ZenLeave a comment
Derek Walcott
Poetry

Derek Walcott – Love After Love

October 14, 2022October 14, 2022 Vanessa Able

A gentle and joyful invitation to intimacy and love towards ourselves by Saint Lucian poet Derek Walcott.

Tagged Compassion, love, self-love, self-reflectionLeave a comment
Way-Seeking Mind

Pigs in Winter

August 10, 2022August 28, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY QUINCY MCMICHAEL Snow is water, and water conducts electricity, but the electric fence will not fire as usual, buried three feet deep.

Tagged childhood, landscape, love, nature, pigs, snowLeave a comment
Way-Seeking Mind

Observed by Deer

August 5, 2022August 5, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY SARA MCAULAY I’ve come here for raptors. Left my campsite at dawn, hiked down through blue shadows to the meadow.

Tagged deer, Fear, Gratitude, love, nature, waiting2 Comments

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