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Tag: sacredness

Featured Poetry

Jack Phillips – What We Learn in the Woods

November 16, 2025November 15, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Lebanese-American poet and naturalist Jack Phillips revels in the sacredness, wisdom, and romanticism of wild places.

Tagged holiness, love, nature, nature poem, nature poetry, nature worship, Poem, poet, Poetry, sacredness, wilderness, WisdomLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Topher Shields – Toolbox: Inherited Instruments

September 14, 2025September 13, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

"Toolbox: Inherited Instruments" is a six-sequence poem of raw ancestral sacredness wielded by Aotearoa (New Zealand) poet Topher Shields.

Tagged ancestors, ancestral, ancestry, legacy, memory, Poem, poet, Poetry, Queer, queer poetry, ritual, sacredness, spiritual, SpiritualityLeave 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
Featured Poetry

Bianca Rey – That Night Mongaup Pond Went Silent

April 27, 2025April 24, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

As readers, we are present in a moment of profound realization in Bianca Rey's poem "That Night Mongaup Pond Went Silent".

Tagged clarity, faith, God, holiness, nature, outdoors, Poem, poet, Poetry, sacredness1 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
Featured Poetry

Michael McIrvin – In the Space …

November 3, 2024October 31, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Wyoming poet Michael McIrvin makes holy the simple act of existence, shows us that daily life is perhaps quite miraculous.

Tagged divinity, existence, holiness, life, metaphysics, physics, Poem, poet, Poetry, sacredness, SimplicityLeave 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
Featured Poetry

Sarah Banks – Zinnia

March 24, 2024March 21, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet and gardener Sarah Banks revels in the sacredness of a blooming flower in "Zinnia", the first poem published by The Dewdrop this spring.

Tagged divinity, flower, flowers, holiness, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, sacredness, spring, springtimeLeave a comment
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Featured Poetry

Kimberly Phinney – Exalted Ground

February 4, 2024November 22, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

In her poem "Exalted Ground", award-winning educator and poet Kimberly Phinney blends the boundaries of holiness and the natural world.

Tagged connection, God, holiness, Interconnectedness, nature, pilgrimage, Poem, poet, Poetry, sacredness6 Comments

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