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Tag: Water

Featured Poetry

Ellen White Rook – On Waking

January 29, 2023January 29, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Here at The Dewdrop, we can't help but to be reminded of the late great Mary Oliver when reading Ellen White Rook's tremendous "On Waking".

Tagged Awakening, dreaming, Dreams, mystery, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, seeking, Sleep, WaterLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Gina Ferrara – Along Its Course

July 17, 2022July 14, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

New Orleans poet Gina Ferrara writes a poem of awareness, inevitability, permanence, and nature, the lines of which are gathered around the shores of a sluggish river.

Tagged awareness, nature, outdoors, Poem, poet, Poetry, river, rivers, Water, watersLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Samantha Wright – And Again

December 12, 2021December 10, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Samantha Wright's And Again is a fluid study of nature's blessings and miracles, and humanity's struggle to comprehend those humble quiet blessings.

Tagged Belief, blessing, Gift, greed, miracles, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, proof, rivers, Water1 Comment
Pablo Neruda
Poetry

Pablo Neruda – The Sea

July 7, 2021July 6, 2021 Vanessa Able

Pablo Neruda wonders at the draw that pulls us in to the unknown, shifting ablutions that are the action of the sea and of water.

Tagged ablution, magnetism, mystery, ocean, pure movement, sea, teaching, unknown, Water1 Comment
Eihei Dogen
Book Bits, The Masters, Zen

Dogen’s Seal of the Ocean: How Meditation and Life Can Flow Like Water

July 6, 2021August 13, 2021 Vanessa Able

Japanese Zen Master Eihei Dogen invokes an oceanic state of non-identification as something that expresses the true Dharma, or our true nature, according to the teachings of Buddha.

Tagged authenticity, being, Buddha, depth, Meditation, ocean, oceanic, sea, seal, Shobogenzo, Source, Water, Zen1 Comment
Yagyu Munenori
Book Bits, The Masters

The Moon in the Water, the Body in the Mirror

March 16, 2021March 16, 2021 Vanessa Able

Samurai Yagyu Munenori uses the popular Zen image of the moon reflected in the water to explain its application in martial arts training.

Tagged art of war, buddhsim, Immediacy, Japan, Mind, Moon, quiescence, reflection, samurai, Water, ZenLeave a comment
Putting my thoughts away for the night is a messy process
Micro Gallery

Martha Nance – Waterwords

December 15, 2020December 16, 2020 Vanessa Able

Martha Nance's Waterwords is a series of abstract images of water and light taken outside her office in Minneapolis.

Tagged artwork, pattern, photography, WaterLeave a comment
Andrew Withers
Featured Poetry

Andrew Withers – Beside the Water

November 1, 2020November 1, 2020 Vanessa Able

Andrew Withers' Beside the Water is one of a series of poems written upon his return home to the UK after two years spent living and working in South East Asia.

Tagged adaptation, culture shock, Distance, home, Travel, WaterLeave a comment
Dan Branch
Featured, Featured Poetry

Dan Branch – The Carrying Strength of Water

June 20, 2020June 20, 2020 Vanessa Able

This poem by Alaska-based poet Dan Branch is a reflection on the values and burdens of guilt. 

Tagged carrying, guilt, strength, Water, weight2 Comments
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Book Bits

Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Cosmic Perspective

December 23, 2019December 28, 2019 Vanessa Able

We marvel at our intelligence, but what we often miss is the miracle of our own existence and our interconnectedness with everything else in the Cosmos.

Tagged Air, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Cosmic Perspective, Cosmos, Elements, Interconnectedness, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Universe, Water1 Comment

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