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Tag: sacred

Featured Poetry

Iain Grinbergs – Letter to Shunryū Suzuki (from Northampton, England)

August 3, 2025August 1, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Iain Grinbergs draws our attention to the sacred details around us in "Letter to Shunryū Suzuki (from Northampton, England)".

Tagged awareness, Buddhism, hunger, mundane, nourishment, observation, Poem, poet, Poetry, sacred, Shunryū Suzuki, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Ryan Diaz – Our Lady of Longing

July 6, 2025July 3, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

The Dewdrop once again features work from New York poet and theologian Ryan Diaz, who threads the needle between desire and purity.

Tagged conflicted, connection, desire, holiness, holy, human experience, human nature, Longing, Poem, poet, Poetry, repression, sacred, sacredness, sensual, sensuality, Virgin MaryLeave a comment
Marie Howe
Poetry

Marie Howe – Annunciation

April 16, 2025April 13, 2025 Sam Shapiro

“All I know is that some things have happened that I don’t understand, and they are the most true things I’ve known.” 

Tagged Awakening, divine, Experience, God, kensho, sacred, truth1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Ingrid M. Calderón – come to me

February 2, 2025January 30, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Los Angeles poet Ingrid M. Calderón breathes a little fire into the cold hours of February with her passionate "come to me".

Tagged desire, love, need, passion, Poem, poet, Poetry, profane, romance, sacred, sacredness, wantLeave a comment
John Fowles
Book Bits

A Temple of Living Pillars: John Fowles’ Ode to the Sacred and Sensuous Tree

May 21, 2024May 21, 2024 Vanessa Able

Author John Fowles on the ways in which trees and forests formed the bedrock of his own creative, psychic and religious sensibility.

Tagged architecture, creativity, forests, humanity, nature, pillars, religion, sacred, temples, Trees, wildernessLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Karen Luke Jackson – Noon Prayer at Salisbury Cathedral

May 19, 2024May 15, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

In Karen Luke Jackson's stunning "Prayer at Salisbury Cathedral", we are guided up stone, glass, and spire alongside prayers of parishioners.

Tagged cathedral, chant, chanting, Genesis, life, Poem, poet, Poetry, prayer, praying, sacred, sacredness, sound1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Jenna Wysong Filbrun – Lost Creek Wilderness (Communion)

May 12, 2024May 10, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Jenna Wysong Filbrun's "Lost Creek Wilderness (Communion)" is both an ode to wilderness and to the sacredness inherent in it.

Tagged adventure, hike, hiking, holiness, mountains, nature, nature writing, outdoors, Poem, poet, Poetry, sacred, sacredness1 Comment
Billy Collins
Poetry

Billy Collins – Shoveling Snow With Buddha

November 30, 2022December 1, 2022 Vanessa Able

Collins' outlandish and endearing image of the Buddha's wholehearted snow shoveling, with thoughts of hot chocolate and an imminent game of cards.

Tagged Buddha, Buddhism, Humor, Practice, sacred, snow, winter, work1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Patrice Bavos – Sedona Prayer

May 15, 2022May 12, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

New Jersey poet Patrice Bavos offers a gracious praise poem of a spiritual place with her lovely "Sedona Prayer".

Tagged desert, history, homage, nature, ode, Poem, poet, Poetry, prayer, sacred4 Comments
Joan Chittister
Book Bits

The Sacred is the Everyday – Joan Chittister

May 11, 2020May 11, 2020 Vanessa Able

Benedictine nun Joan Chittister sees spirituality not as something contained in sacred places or practices, but as something deeply integrated into our daily lives.

Tagged Christianity, church, daily life, everyday, here and now, ordinary, sacred, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality, Wisdom2 Comments

TOP POSTS

  • Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
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  • Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
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  • Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
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  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
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  • Wendell Berry - To Know The Dark
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  • Billy Collins - The Dead
    Billy Collins - The Dead
  • Nathan Hassall - Write a simple poem, my wife said, so I wrote a short one
    Nathan Hassall - Write a simple poem, my wife said, so I wrote a short one
  • Lucille Clifton - why some people be mad at me sometimes
    Lucille Clifton - why some people be mad at me sometimes

- BOOK BITS -

  • Don’t Waste Suffering: Ramiro López Larroy on Opening the Doors of Liberation
    How can we use the things that give us difficulty in our lives to learn and grow, rather than avoiding them, or trying to push them away?
  • 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.


- POETRY-

  • Nathan Hassall – Write a simple poem, my wife said, so I wrote a short one
    Poet Nathan Hassall's "Write a simple poem, my wife said, so I wrote a short one" transcends the small confines of its verbiage into the enormity of universal divinity.
  • A Year of Kō: 17th Sekki
    17th Sekki poems by BOB RAMA, COLEMAN DAVIS and SHAOMEI YU
  • Shaomei Yu – The Closed Door
    Chinese-American poet Shaomei Yu reflects on loss and transition with Zen-like sparseness in her poem "The Closed Door".
  • Claudia Kessel – Samsara
    In her epic "Samsara", poet Claudia Kessel leans the ancient tenants of Buddhism against the gritty reality of the 21st Century.
  • A Year of Kō: 16th Sekki
    16th Sekki poems by COLEMAN DAVIS, MADISON WILLIAMS and SHAOMEI YU
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