Poet and theologian Nathan Bakken writes a three-part discourse on working in faith with his poem "How to Be a Theologian".
Tag: reflection
Gene Hyde – Evening Meditation with Charles Lloyd on the Hi-Fi
Poet Gene Hyde meditates on the transcendence of a day's collapse into dusk with his "Evening Meditation with Charles Lloyd on the Hi-Fi".
A Good Hard Look in the Mirror
The use of mirrors for metaphors of awareness in the Zen tradition goes back as far as early Buddhist times.
Rainer Maria Rilke – A Walk
In this short and inspiring poem, Rilke asks what beckons us towards ideal states and what value does the search provide?
Archibald Macleish – Ars Poetica
A reflection on the silence, stillness and powerful presence of poetry by one of the 21st century's leading modernist poets.
Emily Fernandez – Please begin
The Dewdrop's first Featured Poem of 2023, is an offering from poet Emily Fernandez. It serves as a perfect introduction to the year.
Violeta Garcia-Mendoza – Seasonal Affective Disorder
As the Northern Hemisphere settles into another long cold winter, poet Violeta Garcia-Mendoza offers readers a rather appropriate piece about winter itself, and the gloom that so often seeps into the spirit with the frigid climate.
My Backspaces
BY CHARLENE MOSKAL As I age I find I can no longer enter certain rooms. I see backspaces inhabited by specters of a world fading into my past.
Carl Jung and The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man
Carl Jung knew that the sense of something important missing from our lives would eventually lead to the search for a path back into ourselves.
Matthew Kohut – White Ash
A reflection at the end of winter on the cycles of death and renewal.