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Tag: Simplicity

Featured Poetry

Lily Tobias – Dawn Diminutive

May 18, 2025May 16, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

The simple purity of Lily Tobias' "Dawn Diminutive" is an elegant invitation to slow down and witness the honeyed radiance of morning.

Tagged dawn, Light, Meditation, morning, Optimism, Poem, poet, Poetry, Simplicity, slow living, time, ZenLeave a comment
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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

Christine Andersen – uncluttered

April 21, 2024April 18, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

In a relentless, materialistic, and exhausted world, Poet Christine Andersen heralds an era of inward and outward simplification.

Tagged clutter, Poem, poet, Poetry, purification, purify, Simplicity, simplification, simplify, unclutterLeave a comment
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Kashiana Singh – Unknowing

December 31, 2023December 14, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Kashiana Singh closes out our year here at The Dewdrop with simplicity, wisdom, and quietude with her string of haiku, "Unknowing".

Tagged calm, Haiku, peace, Poem, poet, Poetry, Quiet, serenity, Simplicity, slowness, Zen2 Comments
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Lina Buividavičiūtė – A Housewife’s Opus Magnum

October 30, 2022October 27, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Lithuanian poet Lina Buividavičiūtė's prose poem "A Housewife's Opus Magnum" reveals a holiness discovered in simplicity and domesticity.

Tagged domesticity, God, holiness, Meditation, Poem, poet, Poetry, prose poem, Simplicity, work, ZenLeave a comment
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Bradley Samore – After a Day of Others’ Demands

April 3, 2022April 3, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Zen-like in its purposeful simplicity, poet Bradley Samore has made us something humble and wholesome with his poem, "After a Day of Others' Demands".

Tagged domesticity, food, healing, nourishment, Poem, poet, Poetry, Simplicity, wellness, ZenLeave a comment
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Hiatt O’Connor – Waiting for Gravity

March 6, 2022March 3, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Seemingly a lesson in simplicity and silence, Hiatt O'Connor's wonderful poem Waiting for Gravity is, in fact, a work of layers.

Tagged complexity, Light, Meditation, peace, Poem, poet, Poetry, Quiet, Simplicity, Stillness, tension, Tranquility, ZenLeave a comment
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Spence Pfleiderer – A Simple Morning Prayer

January 16, 2022January 16, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

The aptly-named A Simple Morning Prayer pleads for understanding and love, for connection and illumination in a handful of terse lines. This piece is evidence that a poem need not be complex or long-winded to be a thing of authentic beauty and power.

Tagged connection, God, illumination, love, morning, Poem, poet, Poetry, prayer, Simplicity, Understanding, Zen2 Comments
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Gay Guard-Chamberlin – “Do You Have Any Advice for Those of Us Just Starting Out?”

November 28, 2021November 28, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

In “Do You Have Any Advice for Those of Us Just Starting Out?”, Gay Guard-Chamberlin poses a common question with the poem's title, which is then succinctly answered in the four brief lines that comprise the poem itself.

Tagged Advice, Devotion, Micropoetry, Poem, poet, Poetry, Simplicity, Writing, Zen4 Comments
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Kelly Joslyn – Before the Hunt

June 27, 2021June 22, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Kelly Joslyn's quiet and simple poem Before the Hunt is a childhood reminiscence of her father. The child's early-morning attentiveness to her father extends to the dim lighting and the smell of the tangerine, like looking at an old Polaroid of something from childhood.

Tagged child, childhood, father, fatherhood, gentleness, memory, moment, morning, parenthood, Quiet, Simplicity3 Comments

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