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Featured Poetry

Will Simescu – Agrapha

January 15, 2023January 13, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Will Simescu's "Agrapha" reveals a search for holiness, contrasting the gritty details of reality with imagery from the life of Christ.

Tagged Christ, divine, divinity, God, holiness, Poem, poet, Poetry, searching, seekingLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Emily Fernandez – Please begin

January 8, 2023January 5, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

The Dewdrop's first Featured Poem of 2023, is an offering from poet Emily Fernandez. It serves as a perfect introduction to the year.

Tagged awaken, Awakening, beginnings, future, mindfulness, past, Poem, poet, Poetry, reflection, time4 Comments
Featured Poetry

HR. Harper – The Way of Mountains

December 25, 2022December 23, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

HR. Harper, in "The Way of Mountains", takes readers with a narrator on a pilgrimage in the unforgiving high country for atonement.

Tagged atonement, forgiveness, mountain, mountains, nature, pilgrimage, Poem, poet, Poetry, purification, wilderness1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Kai-Lilly Karpman – Prometheus as Girl

December 18, 2022December 15, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

In "Prometheus as Girl", award-winning poet Kai-Lilly Karpman takes the violence and misogyny of the patriarchy to task.

Tagged femininity, feminism, gods, patriarchy, Poem, poet, Poetry, Violence, WomenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Sheila Lynch-Benttinen – December Solstice

December 11, 2022December 9, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

There is something comforting and cozy in the gentle wintry rhymes of Sheila Lynch-Benttinen's "December Solstice".

Tagged community, gather, Poem, poet, Poetry, solstice, winter, winter solstice, wintertimeLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Kathryn Weld – Is the Sun Conscious

December 4, 2022December 1, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

In Kathryn Weld's "Is the Sun Conscious", readers are presented with a feminine and motherly sun, and the desolation of her absence.

Tagged absence, Light, loss, mother, motherhood, Poem, poet, Poetry, sun, the sunLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

John Paul Caponigro – Test for Echo

November 27, 2022November 25, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

John Paul Caponigro's "Test for Echo" is an ode to connection and communication in a world that feels as disconnected as ever.

Tagged Communication, connection, contact, Fire, Interconnectedness, Loneliness, Poem, poet, Poetry, signal, SolitudeLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Nadir Feroz – Doused

November 20, 2022November 18, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Penned while he sat by the Nile River, Nadir Feroz's "Doused" carries the themes of time, eternity, light, and mortality in its currents.

Tagged current, eternity, mortality, Nile, Poem, poet, Poetry, river, Sudan, time2 Comments
Featured Poetry

Swetha Amit – The Tea Prayer

November 13, 2022November 9, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Swetha Amit's "The Tea Prayer" is a meditation on the routine and ritualistic simplicity of making and savoring a cup of hot green tea.

Tagged green tea, Meditation, Poem, poet, Poetry, routine, senses, sensory, tea, Tea Ceremony, tea preperationLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

David Anthony Martin – The After

November 6, 2022November 3, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Colorado poet and outdoorsman David Anthony Martin reminds us of the inevitability of life and tomorrows with his poem "The After".

Tagged amends, daily life, future, growth, healing, life, Poem, poet, Poetry, Suffering, Wisdom2 Comments

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