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Featured Poetry

Andy Motz – a love poem

June 22, 2025June 19, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet and filmmaker Andy Motz revels in the openness of sharing intimacy in his five-part mini-epic "a love poem".

Tagged intimacy, LBGT, love, love poem, masculinity, Poem, poet, Poetry, Queer, queer poetry, relationship, same sex relationships, sex, timeLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Ryan Diaz – A Vow of Poverty

October 1, 2023September 28, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

With the juxtaposition of piousness and sacredness to desire and indulgence, Ryan Diaz surprises us with his "A Vow of Poverty".

Tagged carnal, desire, erotic, holiness, lust, piousness, Poem, poet, Poetry, sex, spiritualLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Anya Smith – Mountain Messaged Erotica

July 10, 2022July 7, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Anya Smith's three-part sequence poem, "Mountain Messaged Erotica", is narrative rife with outdoorsy rustic goodness and passion.

Tagged erotic, love, mountains, nature, outdoors, Poem, poet, Poetry, sensuality, sexLeave a comment
All About Love

The Curse

December 2, 2021December 2, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY CHRIS JANSEN - The default state of all intelligent human beings is confusion. And what if ‘living your truth’ is just flinging yourself into another delusion?

Tagged confusion, delusion, sex, short story, therapy, truth1 Comment
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Marie Howe – Death, the last visit

November 16, 2021November 15, 2021 Vanessa Able

Marie Howe's different, highly sexual vision of transitioning out of life through a double-take on 'la petite morte,' the experience of orgasm as 'a little death.'

Tagged Death, ecstasy, Fear, love, orgasm, Poetry, relief, sexLeave a comment

TOP POSTS

  • This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
    Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • Barbara Kingsolver - How to Do Absolutely Nothing
    Barbara Kingsolver - How to Do Absolutely Nothing
  • Gurdjieff and The Two Rivers
    Gurdjieff and The Two Rivers
  • Walt Whitman - O Me! O Life!
    Walt Whitman - O Me! O Life!
  • How We Live Is How We Die: Pema Chödrön on Preparing for Death Here and Now
    How We Live Is How We Die: Pema Chödrön on Preparing for Death Here and Now
  • Wendell Berry - To Know The Dark
    Wendell Berry - To Know The Dark
  • Pablo Neruda - The Sea
    Pablo Neruda - The Sea
  • The Dexterous Butcher - Zhuangzi
    The Dexterous Butcher - Zhuangzi

- BOOK BITS -

  • 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.
  • Ray Bradbury
    Running After Loves – Ray Bradbury on Fostering Hunger in Writing
    Finding the truth of our authentic passions is the key to forming the foundations of a writing practice


- POETRY-

  • Lawrence Bridges – Trees of Ojai
    Poet Lawrence Bridges once again shows readers of The Dewdrop how Zen simplicity and awareness can be a sacred thing.
  • A Year of Kō: 7th Sekki
    7th Sekki poems by JOSEPH PALMER, FRAN SCOTT and ELLIOT DIAMOND
  • Francis Weeks – Taho Buddha
    "Taho Buddha" by poet Francis Weeks is a minimalist poem which explores a pivotal moment in Nichiren Buddhism.
  • Regina Gort-Betances – (Mother) Bear
    Regina Gort-Betances' "(Mother) Bear" is a wild and mournful study of loss and grief, written on a canvas of bone, blood, and root.
  • A Year of Kō: 6th Sekki
    6th Sekki poems by MADISON WILLIAMS, JOSEPH PALMER and COLEMAN DAVIS

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