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Featured Poetry

Sheila Lynch-Benttinen – December Solstice

December 11, 2022December 9, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

There is something comforting and cozy in the gentle wintry rhymes of Sheila Lynch-Benttinen's "December Solstice".

Tagged community, gather, Poem, poet, Poetry, solstice, winter, winter solstice, wintertimeLeave a comment
Billy Collins
Poetry

Billy Collins – Shoveling Snow With Buddha

November 30, 2022December 1, 2022 Vanessa Able

Collins' outlandish and endearing image of the Buddha's wholehearted snow shoveling, with thoughts of hot chocolate and an imminent game of cards.

Tagged Buddha, Buddhism, Humor, Practice, sacred, snow, winter, work1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Kurtis Ebeling – Snowmelt

May 1, 2022April 28, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

With the quietude of the rising sun and melting snow, Kurtis Ebeling's "Snowmelt" serves as an ode to springtime and a requiem to winter.

Tagged environment, growth, healing, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, rejuvenation, restoration, spring, winter, wintertime, ZenLeave a comment
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Way-Seeking Mind

In Praise of Winter Hiking

February 22, 2022February 11, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY ANTHONY EMERSON December is here, and soon snow will fall and accumulate in amounts that must be measured in feet.

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Featured Poetry

Leslie Ryan – Taking Refuge

February 13, 2022February 11, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

An appropriate poem for these cold dark winter days, Leslie Ryan has written lines frozen with ferocious and gorgeous imagery and sparseness--like a rime-coated mountain.

Tagged coldness, contrast, duality, Hot and cold, Poem, poet, Poetry, refuge, warmth, winter, wintertime2 Comments
Violeta Garcia Mendoza
Featured Poetry

Violeta Garcia-Mendoza – Seasonal Affective Disorder

January 9, 2022January 8, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

As the Northern Hemisphere settles into another long cold winter, poet Violeta Garcia-Mendoza offers readers a rather appropriate piece about winter itself, and the gloom that so often seeps into the spirit with the frigid climate.

Tagged coldness, depression, glass, melancholy, Poem, poet, Poetry, reflection, winter, wintertimeLeave a comment
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Adrienne Rich – The Corpse-Plant

August 18, 2021August 16, 2021 Vanessa Able

The corpse-plant's soft and scaly appearance and its drooping head give it a ghostly, deathly air in Adrienne Rich's poem.

Tagged Death, fungus, indian pipe, nature, plant, Poetry, sun, truth, white, winterLeave a comment
Matthew Kohut
Featured Poetry

Matthew Kohut – White Ash

March 28, 2021March 24, 2021 Vanessa Able

A reflection at the end of winter on the cycles of death and renewal.

Tagged dust, endurance, history, reflection, Trees, winter6 Comments
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TOP POSTS

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    Naomi Shihab Nye - Burning the Old Year
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- BOOK BITS -

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  • Alan Watts
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    The psychology of acceptance and the understanding 'that there is only one ultimate reality or source of activity in the universe.'
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- POETRY-

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  • Will Simescu – Agrapha
    Will Simescu's "Agrapha" reveals a search for holiness, contrasting the gritty details of reality with imagery from the life of Christ.
  • Emily Fernandez – Please begin
    The Dewdrop's first Featured Poem of 2023, is an offering from poet Emily Fernandez. It serves as a perfect introduction to the year.
  • Naomi Shihab Nye – Burning the Old Year
    Naomi Shihab Nye's poem for the New Year is reminiscent of the tradition of 'Año Nuevo' in some Latin American countries.
 

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