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Weekly Haiku

dewdrops: Spring Week 4

April 28, 2025April 3, 2025 Trent Thomson

Spring Week 4 BY ROBERT ADLER

Tagged flowers, Haiku, mystery, poppies, Seasonal, springLeave a comment
Lucille Clifton
Poetry

Lucille Clifton – Blessing the Boats

November 6, 2024November 7, 2024 Vanessa Able

Lucille Clifton's heartfelt blessing to those going forward into the mystery of unknowing, or adversity and the vast sea.

Tagged adversity, blessing, Courage, faith, love, mystery, Poetry, sea, unknowing, unknown2 Comments
David Whyte
Poetry

David Whyte – The Opening of Eyes

March 25, 2024March 25, 2024 Sam Shapiro

Whyte's poem of clear seeing: the experience of holiness is the very ground that is under our feet.

Tagged future, hearing, life, mystery, perception, seeing, transcendence1 Comment
Denise Levertov
Poetry

Denise Levertov – The Secret

August 17, 2023August 17, 2023 Vanessa Able

The unintentional authoring of a line that reveals something profound to a reader, remains a mystery to the author herself.

Tagged authorship, creativity, Insight, meaning, mystery, Poem, Poetry, secretLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Adam Jon Miller – anthology

August 13, 2023August 8, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Adam Jon Miller offers readers a peek at a part of series of poems inspired by the ancient Chinese poets with his "anthology".

Tagged ancient, China, Chinese, Chinese philosophy, Chinese Poetry, Chinese Zen, history, mystery, Poem, poet, Poetry, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Ellen White Rook – On Waking

January 29, 2023January 29, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Here at The Dewdrop, we can't help but to be reminded of the late great Mary Oliver when reading Ellen White Rook's tremendous "On Waking".

Tagged Awakening, dreaming, Dreams, mystery, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, seeking, Sleep, WaterLeave a comment
Albert Einstein
Book Bits

The Most Beautiful Thing We Can Experience Is The Mysterious: Albert Einstein’s Living Philosophy

September 15, 2021September 15, 2021 Vanessa Able

Albert Einstein lays out his living philosophy and the set of ideals that he held in his personal, spiritual and political life.

Tagged Advice, meaning, mystery, philosophy, purpose, religion, science, wonder1 Comment
Pablo Neruda
Poetry

Pablo Neruda – The Sea

July 7, 2021January 19, 2026 Vanessa Able

Pablo Neruda wonders at the draw that pulls us in to the unknown, shifting ablutions that are the action of the sea and of water.

Tagged ablution, magnetism, mystery, ocean, Poetry, pure movement, sea, teaching, unknown, Water4 Comments
Amy Marshall
Featured Poetry

Amy-Sarah Marshall – Shelled

February 14, 2021February 13, 2021 Vanessa Able

Amy-Sarah Marshall's poem 'Shelled' touches on feelings of loss and remembrance through a minimal and pared-down verse.

Tagged emotion, Loneliness, loss, mystery, remembranceLeave a comment

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- BOOK BITS -

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- POETRY-

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