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Tag: pilgrims

Featured Poetry

Joe Martyn Ricke – Thanksgiving (A Camino Poem)

November 9, 2025November 9, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Texas poet and singer/songwriter Joe Martyn Ricke's "Thanksgiving (A Camino Poem)" is both a poem and a prayer.

Tagged camino, camino de santiago, Gratitude, Meditation, pilgrimage, pilgrims, Poem, poet, Poetry, prayer, thanksgivingLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Jovan Virag – Torii Gates

July 14, 2024July 12, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

California poet Jovan Virag serves readers as a guide up to a mountaintop Shinto shrine in Japan with her poem "Torri Gates".

Tagged climb, Japan, pilgrimage, pilgrims, Poem, poet, Poetry, Shinto, shrine, Stillness, Suffering, ZenLeave 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

Oliver Khan – A Prayer at Hajj

February 18, 2024February 15, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

In "A Prayer at Hajj", poet Oliver Khan grants an Islamic perspective of God and pilgrimage, of purification.

Tagged Hajj, Islam, Mecca, pilgrimage, pilgrims, Poem, poet, Poetry, prayer, prayers, purificationLeave a comment
Nicholas Trandahl
Featured

Nicholas Trandahl – The Chapel

April 26, 2020December 29, 2020 Vanessa Able

In his poem, The Chapel, Nicholas Trandahl sets out what he looks for when it comes to faith and spirituality. A lifelong seeker of truth and inner peace, he imagines a fictional space deep in the heart of the wilderness, where pilgrims and seekers can finally rest after their journeys.

Tagged 2020, chapel, divine, faith, forest, God, journey, nature, pilgrims, salvation, Spirituality, wilderness3 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-

  • 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.
  • Regina Gort-Betances – (Mother) Bear
    Regina Gort-Betances' "(Mother) Bear" is a wild and mournful study of loss and grief, written on a canvas of bone, blood, and root.
  • A Year of Kō: 6th Sekki
    6th Sekki poems by MADISON WILLIAMS, JOSEPH PALMER and COLEMAN DAVIS

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