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Featured Poetry

Bianca Rey – That Night Mongaup Pond Went Silent

April 27, 2025April 24, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

As readers, we are present in a moment of profound realization in Bianca Rey's poem "That Night Mongaup Pond Went Silent".

Tagged clarity, faith, God, holiness, nature, outdoors, Poem, poet, Poetry, sacredness1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Kurtis Ebeling – Poppies

January 26, 2025January 23, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

In these days of bitter cold, poet Kurtis Ebeling has offered us an imagistic window into idyllic summer with his tranquil poem "Poppies".

Tagged nature, nature writing, outdoors, Poem, poet, Poetry, poppies, summer, Tranquility, Trees, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Spencer Pfleiderer – Sanctuary

October 6, 2024October 3, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Spencer Pfleiderer informs us with solid earthy lines of his poem "Sanctuary" that good things come to those who wait.

Tagged Awakening, awareness, nature, observation, outdoors, patience, Poem, poet, Poetry, TreesLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Jenna Wysong Filbrun – Lost Creek Wilderness (Communion)

May 12, 2024May 10, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Jenna Wysong Filbrun's "Lost Creek Wilderness (Communion)" is both an ode to wilderness and to the sacredness inherent in it.

Tagged adventure, hike, hiking, holiness, mountains, nature, nature writing, outdoors, Poem, poet, Poetry, sacred, sacredness1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Christine Andersen – Breaking the Rules

November 12, 2023November 9, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Christine Andersen's "Breaking the Rules" reveals the release and healing to be found blooming and flowing in the wild places of the earth.

Tagged hike, hiking, letting go, nature, outdoors, Poem, poet, Poetry, release, sorrow, unburdening1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Mary McGinnis – Trail Prayer

April 9, 2023April 7, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Just in time for springtime, New Mexico poet Mary McGinnis beckons us out into great outdoors with her poem "Trail Prayer".

Tagged friendship, life, nature, outdoors, paths, Poem, poet, Poetry, prayer, spring, trails3 Comments
Featured Poetry

Gina Ferrara – Along Its Course

July 17, 2022July 14, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

New Orleans poet Gina Ferrara writes a poem of awareness, inevitability, permanence, and nature, the lines of which are gathered around the shores of a sluggish river.

Tagged awareness, nature, outdoors, Poem, poet, Poetry, river, rivers, Water, watersLeave a 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
Featured Poetry

Lawrence Bridges – The Fresh Fulcrum

November 21, 2021November 19, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

In the broadest sense, Lawrence Bridge's The Fresh Fulcrum is a stream-of-consciousness snapshot of a person working outside in nature.

Tagged chaos, character, nature, outdoors, Poem, poet, Poetry, stream of consciousness, thought, workLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Samara Landau – Happenstance

July 11, 2021July 11, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

'Happenstance' by Samara Landau is a work of complexity, pattern, and rhythm, set around fate, coincidence, and loss.

Tagged accident, coincidence, destiny, happenstance, hike, hiking, loss, memory, outdoors, strangers2 Comments

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- BOOK BITS -

  • Rick Ruben
    “Expanding the Universe” – Rick Rubin on Awareness in Creativity
    What is the role of awareness in creativity and how can we cultivate it to make our world a bigger and clearer place?
  • Thich Nhat Hanh
    The First Door of Liberation: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Vision of Emptiness and Interbeing
    Rather than signifying a lack or a void, Thich Nhat Hanh took emptiness to be a state of inextricable and fundamental interconnectedness.
  • Mike Travisano – Bob’s Tattoos
    A short story on the power of three simple words and how much they can mean and embody.
  • Shunryu Suzuki
    Sharing the Feeling: Zen Teacher Shunryu Suzuki on Becoming Ourselves
    The importance of keeping an empty mind for savoring the present and expressing ourselves in our most authentic way.
  • Ray Bradbury
    Running After Loves – Ray Bradbury on Fostering Hunger in Writing
    Finding the truth of our authentic passions is the key to forming the foundations of a writing practice


- POETRY-

  • A Year of Kō: 8th Sekki
    8th Sekki poems by MADISON WILLIAMS, ELLIOT DIAMOND AND JOSEPH PALMER
  • Sarah Reichert – Divine Struggle
    Colorado poet Sarah Reichart shows how kinetic and arduous the search for faith can be with her poem "Divine Struggle".
  • Lawrence Bridges – Trees of Ojai
    Poet Lawrence Bridges once again shows readers of The Dewdrop how Zen simplicity and awareness can be a sacred thing.
  • A Year of Kō: 7th Sekki
    7th Sekki poems by JOSEPH PALMER, FRAN SCOTT and ELLIOT DIAMOND
  • Francis Weeks – Taho Buddha
    "Taho Buddha" by poet Francis Weeks is a minimalist poem which explores a pivotal moment in Nichiren Buddhism.

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