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Featured Poetry

Patrice Bavos – Sedona Prayer

May 15, 2022May 12, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

New Jersey poet Patrice Bavos offers a gracious praise poem of a spiritual place with her lovely "Sedona Prayer".

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William Shakespeare – When I Consider Everything That Grows

September 9, 2020September 9, 2020 Vanessa Able

A sonnet from the 'Fair Youth' series that was occupied with themes of aging, passing time and the transience of physical beauty.

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- BOOK BITS -

  • 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
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    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.
  • Alan Watts
    Life Includes All Opposites – Alan Watts on the Oneness of the Tao
    The psychology of acceptance and the understanding 'that there is only one ultimate reality or source of activity in the universe.'
  • The Sacred Pulse of Night and Day
    Deborah Eden Tull explores the experience of darkness and how it can be a transformative and expansive human experience.


- POETRY-

  • Ellen White Rook – On Waking
    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".
  • David Cravens – American Zen
    David Cravens' epic poem "American Zen" counts as one of the more ambitious works ever published in The Dewdrop.
  • Kahlil Gibran
    Kahlil Gibran – Fear
    Kahlil Gibran's poem on the fear of dissipation is a call to faith, to trust in the oceanic nature of the life-manifesting force.
  • Will Simescu – Agrapha
    Will Simescu's "Agrapha" reveals a search for holiness, contrasting the gritty details of reality with imagery from the life of Christ.
  • Emily Fernandez – Please begin
    The Dewdrop's first Featured Poem of 2023, is an offering from poet Emily Fernandez. It serves as a perfect introduction to the year.
 

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