Poetry Archives - The Dewdrop

"On The Mountain of Forth" is Irish poet Ronán P. Berry's anthem of the natural and wild world and what could even be considered enlightenment.

Regina Dilgen – Meditation on Thomas Merton’s Hermitage

Regina Dilgen's exquisite "Meditation on Thomas Merton's Hermitage" imagines American monastic Thomas Merton worn by grief and inspired to write.

Orhan Pamuk's hand-writing habit hasn't budged, despite the conventions of our time.

A narrative of a woodpecker at work on a tree expands to the oneness of all things in Mike Christie's "Knock Knock Knock".

In the vivid "After Portugal", the simple act of doing a load of laundry after returning home from time abroad brings back moonlit memories

In Matthew Kohut's "Letter to St. John of the Cross", nine concise lines are illuminated with unity, to the canticle of "i dissolving".

Aeris Walker's "Good and Wild and Wonderful" is a prose poem of vast enormity, of the creation of all things.

Chinese Nun Ziyong Chengru on the pain of parting and how to draw solace from the cyclical nature of time and landscape.

Sam Magavern reveals to us an honest down-to-earth depiction of one of the three Magi on the search of the infant Christ in Bethlehem.

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".