Longtime San Francisco-based poet Mark J. Mitchell eases readers into the warm heavy heart of summer with his "Lazy Afternoon Poem".
Tag: Stillness
Julia Roberts – Pantry Door
With Zen simplicity and sparseness, Texas poet Julia Roberts expertly displays routine and familiarity with her brief poem "Pantry Door".
Dolo Diaz – Morning Walk in the Marsh
In "Morning Walk in the Marsh" poet Dolo Diaz pulls the quiet hush of gently stirring nature over us like a soft quilt.
Samuel Gilpin – Do You Ever Have the Feeling That the World’s Gone and Left You Behind
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.
Gary Fox – Dissolve
"Dissolve" by poet Gary Fox is a place poem, woven with the interplay of stillness and motion, light emptying into darkness.
Caroline Goodwin – Sky
Caroline Goodwin's "Sky" is like still-life in poetic form, an accounting of a space and a moment, lush with "lived-in" detail.
Jerrice J. Baptiste – Pilgrim
Haitian-born poet Jerrice J. Baptiste allows us a space to breathe and be still with her phenomenal poem "Pilgrim"
Jovan Virag – Torii Gates
California poet Jovan Virag serves readers as a guide up to a mountaintop Shinto shrine in Japan with her poem "Torri Gates".
Tsultrim Nyi-O – Silence
Buddhist practitioner and chaplain Tsultrim Nyi-O offers readers a selection of Zen haiku tidbits, which leave us transcendent.
Kashiana Singh – In Samadhi
The Dewdrop is honored to publish the meditative haiku sequence "In Samadhi" by poet and speaker Kashiana Singh.