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: nostalgia

Featured Poetry

Quincy Gray McMichael – After Portugal

February 26, 2023February 23, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

In the vivid "After Portugal", the simple act of doing a load of laundry after returning home from time abroad brings back moonlit memories

Tagged memories, memory, nostalgia, Poem, poet, Poetry, Portugal, Travel, vacationLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Joshua C. Allen – The White Oak Peninsula

February 20, 2022February 17, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Joshua C. Allen's The White Oak Peninsula is an ode to a place, a nostalgic discourse into earthy wildness and days of youth and adventure that many of us can relate to.

Tagged childhood, friendship, nature, nature writing, nostalgia, Poem, poet, Poetry, wilderness, wildness, youthLeave a comment
Anais Nin
Book Bits

The Expression of a Better World – Anaïs Nin on Transience and the Painful, Familiar Beauty of Music

November 20, 2021November 19, 2021 Vanessa Able

Anaïs Nin on music, mortality, and what it is to glimpse a joyful vision of a land from which we came and which we have forgotten.

Tagged Death, exile, impermanence, intervals, music, nostalgia, notes, sorrow, space, transience1 Comment
Micro Gallery

Jacob Lehmann – Constructed Spaces

October 28, 2021October 28, 2021 Vanessa Able

In his collaged paintings, Jacob Lehmann explores the relationships between isolation and nostalgia, in connection to childhood.

Tagged childhood, collage, isolation, landscape, nostalgia, painting1 Comment
Support The Dewdrop
SIGN UP FOR EMAILS

TOP POSTS

  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • Mary Oliver - Wild Geese
    Mary Oliver - Wild Geese
  • Pablo Neruda - The Sea
    Pablo Neruda - The Sea
  • Bankei and the Unborn
    Bankei and the Unborn
  • Seamus Heaney - The Peninsula
    Seamus Heaney - The Peninsula
  • Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
    Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
  • What is True Freedom?
    What is True Freedom?
  • What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
    What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
  • Billy Collins - The Dead
    Billy Collins - The Dead
  • Letting Go of Hope - Pema Chodron
    Letting Go of Hope - Pema Chodron

- BOOK BITS -

  • 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.
  • Barbara Brown Taylor
    The Path that Goes Nowhere – Barbara Brown Taylor on the Practice of Labyrinth Walking
    Barbara Brown Taylor reflects on her own experience of Labyrinth-walking and the significance of the path without a destination.
  • David Hinton
    What Can the Earth’s Crisis Teach Us About Ourselves? David Hinton’s Tao of Ecology
    David Hinton on what Taoism can teach us about Deep Ecology and how we can reconnect with our own ancient Paleolithic roots.
  • Virginia Woolf
    ‘When the Lights of Health Go Down’- Virginia Woolf on Being Ill
    Virginia Woolf on our relationship to illness, its potential spiritual value, and the mysterious intelligence of the body.


- POETRY-

  • Ronán P. Berry – On The Mountain of Forth
    "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.
  • Regina Dilgen – Meditation on Thomas Merton’s Hermitage
    Regina Dilgen's exquisite "Meditation on Thomas Merton's Hermitage" imagines American monastic Thomas Merton worn by grief and inspired to write.
  • Orhan Pamuk
    Orhan Pamuk on Writing By Hand
    Orhan Pamuk's hand-writing habit hasn't budged, despite the conventions of our time.
  • Mike Christie – Knock Knock Knock
    A narrative of a woodpecker at work on a tree expands to the oneness of all things in Mike Christie's "Knock Knock Knock".
  • Quincy Gray McMichael – After Portugal
    In the vivid "After Portugal", the simple act of doing a load of laundry after returning home from time abroad brings back moonlit memories
 

Loading Comments...