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Featured Poetry

Lawrence Bridges – Trees of Ojai

May 24, 2026May 23, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Lawrence Bridges once again shows readers of The Dewdrop how Zen simplicity and awareness can be a sacred thing.

Tagged attention, awareness, connection, Inner Peace, Interconnectedness, naturalistic, nature, Nature and spirituality, nature poem, nature poetry, peace, Poem, poet, Poetry, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Lily Tobias – Fennel

April 5, 2026April 4, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

In her poem "Fennel", Michigan poet Lily Tobias awakens our senses in the quiet hush of morning, and takes us to the temple.

Tagged garden, Meditation, memory, nature, peace, Poem, poet, Poetry, posture, temple, winter, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Gary Keenan – Big Day

March 22, 2026March 21, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

Writing from the Colombian Andes, poet Gary Keenan's poem "Big Day" is a chaotic cacophony collapsing into the soft rosy amber of stillness.

Tagged chaos, imagination, language, memory, peace, Poem, poet, Poetry, present moment, release, time1 Comment
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Zahraa Farhat – Pilgrimage

January 4, 2026January 4, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

The Dewdrop couldn't be more honored to begin 2026 by sharing Zahraa Farhat's moving and hopeful poem "Pilgrimage".

Tagged Gaza, hope, Islam, Isreal, Muslim, Palestine, peace, Poem, poet, Poetry, prayer, war1 Comment
Book Bits

A New Way to Live: The Living Tradition of Experience

September 8, 2024September 8, 2024 Vanessa Able

What is the source of inner peace and deep contentment that is hidden like a treasure but imminent and accessible to all?

Tagged Buddhism, Compassion, contentment, Experience, Meditation, peace, PracticeLeave a comment
Karina Lutz
Featured Poetry

Karina Lutz – Encircling earth, the center of our gravity

February 25, 2024November 22, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Peace advocate and poet Karina Lutz brings an epic poem of interconnectedness and peace to readers here at The Dewdrop.

Tagged connection, humanity, Interconnectedness, peace, pilgrimage, pilgrims, Poem, poet, Poetry, purification1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Kashiana Singh – Unknowing

December 31, 2023December 14, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Kashiana Singh closes out our year here at The Dewdrop with simplicity, wisdom, and quietude with her string of haiku, "Unknowing".

Tagged calm, Haiku, peace, Poem, poet, Poetry, Quiet, serenity, Simplicity, slowness, Zen2 Comments
Featured Poetry

Stacey Elza – To Build a Bow

May 21, 2023May 20, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Juxtaposing the antagonistic nature of humanity with the protective and peaceful side, poet Stacey Elza offers readers "To Build a Bow".

Tagged Bible, civilization, human nature, humanity, justice, Karma, peace, Poem, poet, Poetry, warLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Susan Coultrap-McQuin – Sunday Morning at the Cabin Up North

March 26, 2023March 23, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Susan Coultrap-McQuin shows us nature's sacredness with her poem "Sunday Morning at the Cabin Up North".

Tagged blessing, divinity, holiness, nature, nature writing, peace, Poem, poet, Poetry, serenity, Spirituality, Tranquility, Zen1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Elisabeth Preston-Hsu – Kitsune Udon

March 13, 2022March 14, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Like a steaming bowl of delicious flavors, Elisabeth Preston-Hsu's "Kitsune Udon" is a recipe of mythology, Zen simplicity, and storytelling.

Tagged folklore, food, kitsune, myth, mythology, nourishment, peace, Poem, poet, Poetry, ZenLeave a comment

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