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Tag: Stillness

Featured Poetry

Dolo Diaz – Morning Walk in the Marsh

September 21, 2025September 20, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

In "Morning Walk in the Marsh" poet Dolo Diaz pulls the quiet hush of gently stirring nature over us like a soft quilt.

Tagged dawn, marsh, morning, Morning Poem, nature, nature poem, nature poetry, Poem, poet, Poetry, Stillness, wakingLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Samuel Gilpin – Do You Ever Have the Feeling That the World’s Gone and Left You Behind

April 20, 2025April 18, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Samuel Gilpin's poem "Do You Ever Have the Feeling That the World's Gone and Left You Behind" is a catalyst to conclusion and reality.

Tagged abandonment, Loneliness, loss, Poem, poet, Poetry, Reality, Solitude, Stillness, sunsetLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Gary Fox – Dissolve

February 16, 2025February 14, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

"Dissolve" by poet Gary Fox is a place poem, woven with the interplay of stillness and motion, light emptying into darkness.

Tagged birds, fading, Light, nature, night, nightfall, Poem, poet, Poetry, Silence, Stillness1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Caroline Goodwin – Sky

October 13, 2024October 11, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Caroline Goodwin's "Sky" is like still-life in poetic form, an accounting of a space and a moment, lush with "lived-in" detail.

Tagged awareness, details, intimacy, life, observation, Poem, poet, Poetry, Quiet, Sky, Stillness, vastnessLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Jerrice J. Baptiste – Pilgrim

July 28, 2024July 26, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Haitian-born poet Jerrice J. Baptiste allows us a space to breathe and be still with her phenomenal poem "Pilgrim"

Tagged Meditation, nature, pilgrim, Poem, poet, Poetry, Stillness, temple, ZenLeave a comment
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Jovan Virag – Torii Gates

July 14, 2024July 12, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

California poet Jovan Virag serves readers as a guide up to a mountaintop Shinto shrine in Japan with her poem "Torri Gates".

Tagged climb, Japan, pilgrimage, pilgrims, Poem, poet, Poetry, Shinto, shrine, Stillness, Suffering, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Tsultrim Nyi-O – Silence

April 7, 2024April 6, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Buddhist practitioner and chaplain Tsultrim Nyi-O offers readers a selection of Zen haiku tidbits, which leave us transcendent.

Tagged Buddhism, buddhist philosophy, Buddhist poetry, Haiku, Meditation, Poem, poet, Poetry, Silence, Stillness, Zen2 Comments
Featured Poetry

Kashiana Singh – In Samadhi

March 31, 2024March 27, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

The Dewdrop is honored to publish the meditative haiku sequence "In Samadhi" by poet and speaker Kashiana Singh.

Tagged awareness, Haiku, Meditation, pause, Poem, poet, Poetry, Stillness, ZenLeave a comment
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Archibald Macleish – Ars Poetica

June 19, 2023June 19, 2023 Vanessa Able

A reflection on the silence, stillness and powerful presence of poetry by one of the 21st century's leading modernist poets.

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Featured Poetry

Christian Ward – Heron, Returning

April 2, 2023March 30, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Christian Ward's heron, which serves as his poem's centerpiece, weathers the turmoil of life, awaiting much-needed change.

Tagged change, discipline, distraction, Meditation, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, prayer, Stillness, ZenLeave a comment

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