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Tag: Zen

Featured Poetry

Lily Tobias – Fennel

April 5, 2026April 4, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

In her poem "Fennel", Michigan poet Lily Tobias awakens our senses in the quiet hush of morning, and takes us to the temple.

Tagged garden, Meditation, memory, nature, peace, Poem, poet, Poetry, posture, temple, winter, ZenLeave a comment
Poetry

Roshi Joan Halifax and The Way of Haiku

March 31, 2026March 31, 2026 Trent Thomson

A collection of haiku offered by Roshi Joan Halifax.

Tagged autumn, Buddhism, fall, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, seasons, upaya, Zen2 Comments
Weekly Haiku

A Year of Kō: 3rd Sekki

March 24, 2026March 24, 2026 Trent Thomson

3rd Sekki poems by COLEMAN DAVIS, LAILA BRAHMBHATT, WILLIAM KILGORE

Tagged calendar, Haiku, hot, ko, micro seasons, Poem, Poetry, Seasonal, spring, ZenLeave a comment
Weekly Haiku

A Year of Kō: 2nd Sekki

March 10, 2026March 10, 2026 Trent Thomson

2nd Sekki poems by FRANCES SCOTT, IRENE APOSTOLERIS and SARAH GILL.

Tagged calendar, Haiku, hot, ko, micro seasons, Poem, Poetry, Seasonal, spring, ZenLeave a comment
Weekly Haiku

A Year of Kō: 1st Sekki

February 23, 2026February 27, 2026 Trent Thomson

1st Sekki poems by JAMES PENHA, ELENA BRENNEMAN and BRAM B. BRIGGANCE

Tagged cold, heat, hot, Hot and cold, Poem, Poetry, ZenLeave a comment
Weekly Haiku

dewdrops: Transition Haiku

February 9, 2026February 9, 2026 Trent Thomson

Transition Haiku BY REV. GENJO TRE WILLIAMS

Tagged cold, heat, hot, Hot and cold, Poem, Poetry, ZenLeave a comment
Thich Nhat Hanh
Book Bits

The First Door of Liberation: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Vision of Emptiness and Interbeing

January 22, 2026January 20, 2026 Vanessa Able

Rather than signifying a lack or a void, Thich Nhat Hanh took emptiness to be a state of inextricable and fundamental interconnectedness.

Tagged Buddhism, Emptiness, existence, Experience, interbeing, nothingness, separate self, sunyata, Zen3 Comments
Featured Poetry

James Roderick Burns – Waka waka waka

December 7, 2025December 7, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Prolific short form poet James Roderick Burns returns to The Dewdrop with a themed set of tanka "Waka waka waka".

Tagged Micropoetry, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, short form, short poetry, tanka, waka, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Vincent Hostak – Two Moon Sutras

November 2, 2025November 1, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

In his poem, "Two Moon Sutras", poet Vincent Hostak offers a pair of sequences focused on the moon as an object of contemplation.

Tagged Buddhism, concurrence, Meditation, Moon, moonlight, Poem, poet, Poetry, Sutra, Sutras, ZenLeave a comment
Shunryu Suzuki
Book Bits

Sharing the Feeling: Zen Teacher Shunryu Suzuki on Becoming Ourselves

September 30, 2025September 28, 2025 Vanessa Able

The importance of keeping an empty mind for savoring the present and expressing ourselves in our most authentic way.

Tagged becoming, being, Buddhism, Emptiness, Enlightenment, exporession, liberation, Mind, Suzuki, teaching, ZenLeave a comment

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- BOOK BITS -

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- POETRY-

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    13th Sekki poems by BENJAMIN TANNER LLOYD, SHAOMEI YU and ELLIOT DIAMOND
  • Jonathan Jones – man in the rain
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