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Featured Poetry

Sarah Reichert – Divine Struggle

June 7, 2026June 6, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

Colorado poet Sarah Reichart shows how kinetic and arduous the search for faith can be with her poem "Divine Struggle".

Tagged celestial, divine, frailty, hope, human experience, Poem, poet, Poetry, religion, Spirituality, Stars, struggleLeave a comment
Micro Gallery

The Anatomy of Moments

June 26, 2025June 23, 2025 Vanessa Able

Hosho McCreesh's visual, lyrical, haiku-like psalms are strikingly beautiful, and always striving for less.

Tagged dark, Haiku, humanity, landscape, loss, love, meaning, photography, Poetry, psalms, struggleLeave a comment
Autumn Leaves
Way-Seeking Mind

Remember the Bear

January 5, 2022January 5, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY JENNIFER CHRISTGAU AQUINO When the fall the sky turned orange from fire, and a pandemic roared, and the children lay in bed all day, and cancer took residence in your armpits, you found a bear in your basement.

Tagged cancer, Care, Death, life, mortality, sickness, struggleLeave a comment
Ernest Hemingway
Book Bits

La Mar, El Mar: Ernest Hemingway’s Kind, Beautiful, Cruel Ocean

July 9, 2021July 9, 2021 Vanessa Able

Ernest Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea', has to be one of the most accomplished accounts of a lifetime's intimacy with the sea.

Tagged cruelty, fate, femenine, luck, ocean, sea, Silence, struggle2 Comments
Walt Whitman
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Walt Whitman – O Me! O Life!

May 26, 2021May 25, 2021 Vanessa Able

Walt Whitman's O Me! O Life! is a rousing remonstrance of a self-centered life of faithless, foolish, vain, mean struggle that asks the question, where does the good lie in the midst of this endeavor?

Tagged Identity, lament, Play, Poetry, questioning, samsara, struggleLeave a comment
Wanda Coleman
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Wanda Coleman – Nocturne

February 3, 2021February 3, 2021 Vanessa Able

Wanda Coleman's 'Nocturne' holds up the exertion born of necessity or stubbornness, and an awareness of the things—both internal and external—that impede momentum.

Tagged Black Poets, Darkness, exertion, persistence, Poetry, running, strength, struggleLeave a comment

TOP POSTS

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  • Sarah Reichert - Divine Struggle
    Sarah Reichert - Divine Struggle
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- 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-

  • A Year of Kō: 8th Sekki
    8th Sekki poems by MADISON WILLIAMS, ELLIOT DIAMOND AND JOSEPH PALMER
  • Sarah Reichert – Divine Struggle
    Colorado poet Sarah Reichart shows how kinetic and arduous the search for faith can be with her poem "Divine Struggle".
  • 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.

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