Skip to content
The Dewdrop Logo

The Dewdrop

read deep, breathe easy

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

Tag: mountains

Featured Poetry

Ronán P. Berry – On The Mountain of Forth

March 19, 2023March 12, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

"On The Mountain of Forth" is Irish poet Ronán P. Berry's anthem of the natural and wild world and what could even be considered enlightenment.

Tagged awareness, Ireland, Irish, mountain, mountains, nature, nature writing, Poem, poet, Poetry, Self, self-awarenessLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

HR. Harper – The Way of Mountains

December 25, 2022December 23, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

HR. Harper, in "The Way of Mountains", takes readers with a narrator on a pilgrimage in the unforgiving high country for atonement.

Tagged atonement, forgiveness, mountain, mountains, nature, pilgrimage, Poem, poet, Poetry, purification, wilderness1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Anya Smith – Mountain Messaged Erotica

July 10, 2022July 7, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Anya Smith's three-part sequence poem, "Mountain Messaged Erotica", is narrative rife with outdoorsy rustic goodness and passion.

Tagged erotic, love, mountains, nature, outdoors, Poem, poet, Poetry, sensuality, sexLeave a comment
Mount Toubkal
Way-Seeking Mind

Breathing

April 19, 2022April 18, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY SONIA TRICKEY We began our ascent of the South Cirque at 5:20am. Snow had fallen thickly overnight, the path was invisible and it was very dark. Most of us had barely slept.

Tagged grief, hiking, landscape, morocco, mountains, nature, SilenceLeave a comment
Bat
Way-Seeking Mind

Sunset Meditation

November 8, 2021November 8, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY JOHN BRANTINGHAM Sunset comes late in High Sierra Summers, and by the time it does, I’m usually done for the day.

Tagged Awakening, beauty, centering, here and now, Meditation, mountains, nature, peace, presence, sunsetLeave a comment
photography of leafless tree surrounded by snow
Way-Seeking Mind

Pandemic Snow

September 7, 2021September 7, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY JONATHAN H. MARKS A few years ago, when I was on an international fellowship in Geneva, some friends asked me to go to the mountains for the afternoon.

Tagged Experience, mountains, nature, pandemic, renewal, Silence, snowLeave a comment
Nan Shepherd
Book Bits

Out Of the Body and Into the Mountain: Nan Shepherd’s Journeys Among the Scottish Cairngorms

June 29, 2021June 28, 2021 Vanessa Able

Published thirty years after it was written, Nan Shepherd's nature memoir describes a very physical intimacy that grew and developed through the author's exploration of the Cairngorm Mountains.

Tagged being, Body, Cairngorm, ecology, landscape, memoir, mountains, nature, nature writing, pilgrimage, Scotland2 Comments
Joan Halifax
Book Bits

The Path That Leads Into the Mountains

August 3, 2020August 3, 2020 Vanessa Able

In 1993, Zen teacher Joan Halifax published a book called The Fruitful Darkness based on her anthropological engagements with Tibetan Buddhists, Mexican shamans, Native American elders and other tribal communities.

Tagged change, Darkness, energy, geography, healing, inquiry, journeys, mountains, Peaks, pilgrimage, refuge, spirit, summit, Travel, truth, Zen1 Comment
Support The Dewdrop
SIGN UP FOR EMAILS

TOP POSTS

  • In the Beginning was the Tao
    In the Beginning was the Tao
  • This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • Pablo Neruda - The Sea
    Pablo Neruda - The Sea
  • Nietzsche on Why It Is Also Important to Forget
    Nietzsche on Why It Is Also Important to Forget
  • Seamus Heaney - The Peninsula
    Seamus Heaney - The Peninsula
  • Announcing Our Pushcart Nominees for 2024
    Announcing Our Pushcart Nominees for 2024
  • The Dexterous Butcher - Zhuangzi
    The Dexterous Butcher - Zhuangzi
  • There Is No 'I' In Self
    There Is No 'I' In Self
  • Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
    Mary Oliver - When Death Comes

- BOOK BITS -

  • Oren Jay Sofer
    ‘The Only Way To Be Free’ – Oren Jay Sofer on Why Mindfulness Is More Than Just Paying Attention
    How continuous awareness can be a catalyst for radical personal freedom and transformation.
  • Tangen Harada Roshi
    Seeing Into the Reality of Emptiness
    Zen Master Tangen Harada Roshi on how understanding the truth of emptiness can reveal Original Mind.
  • Susan Bauer-Wu
    The Problem With Business As Usual – On Interconnectedness and the Climate Crisis
    Inspired by the work of the Dalai Lama and Greta Thunberg, Susan Bauer-Wu's book is her personal expression of concern for the earth.
  • Orhan Pamuk
    Orhan Pamuk on Writing By Hand
    Orhan Pamuk's hand-writing habit hasn't budged, despite the conventions of our time.
  • Pema Chodron
    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.


- POETRY-

  • Wendy Blaxland – Midwinter fire
    Prolific Australian writer Wendy Blaxland presents the sparseness of three warm lines to ward off the boreal chill in her poem "Midwinter fire".
  • Announcing Our Pushcart Nominees for 2024
    Hang up the bunting for this year's esteemed Pushcart Prize nominees!
  • Joshua St. Claire & Amber Winter – Out Into the Light
    Poets Joshua St. Claire and Amber Winter weave together a collaborative duet, offering a traditional kasen renga with “Out Into the Light”.
  • Sahar Fathi – All-the-time Home
    Iranian-American poet Sahar Fathi offers a discourse on longing and nostalgia with her incredibly poignant poem "All-the-time Home".
  • Corinne Hughes – Cullen Island, Anacortes
    In "Cullen Island, Anacortes" poet Corinne Hughes reveals brash and radiant liberation from the unwelcome masculine darknesses of the past.
 

Loading Comments...