Finding ourselves here in the depths of October, The Dewdrop is pleased to offer a sonnet by poet Chelsea Fraser, aptly entitled "October".
Tag: nature
Spencer Pfleiderer – Sanctuary
Spencer Pfleiderer informs us with solid earthy lines of his poem "Sanctuary" that good things come to those who wait.
Ahrend Torrey – Red Giant
The six lines Ahrend Torrey's "Red Giant" are epic in scope, weaving together the story of the destruction of our world with threads of hope.
dewdrops: Weekly Haiku
Our weekly haiku offering explores the spiritual relationship between Zen and art and is open to all haiku poets.
Charlotte Trumble – As If Wisconsin
Charlotte Trumble's "As If Wisconsin" is poem which bristles with wildness, history, setting, and the narrator's own roots.
Jerrice J. Baptiste – Pilgrim
Haitian-born poet Jerrice J. Baptiste allows us a space to breathe and be still with her phenomenal poem "Pilgrim"
Sarah Karowski – Clumsy
In Sarah Karowski's imaginative prose poem "Clumsy", we are witness to beauty and magic blooming from the grittiness of hurt.
Jane Hirshfield – Tree
In this poem, Hirshfield asks us: Whose voices, which urgings from within and without, will we follow onto a life’s path?
A Temple of Living Pillars: John Fowles’ Ode to the Sacred and Sensuous Tree
Author John Fowles on the ways in which trees and forests formed the bedrock of his own creative, psychic and religious sensibility.
Jenna Wysong Filbrun – Lost Creek Wilderness (Communion)
Jenna Wysong Filbrun's "Lost Creek Wilderness (Communion)" is both an ode to wilderness and to the sacredness inherent in it.