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Featured Poetry

HR. Harper – The Way of Mountains

December 25, 2022December 23, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

HR. Harper, in "The Way of Mountains", takes readers with a narrator on a pilgrimage in the unforgiving high country for atonement.

Tagged atonement, forgiveness, mountain, mountains, nature, pilgrimage, Poem, poet, Poetry, purification, wilderness1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Joshua C. Allen – The White Oak Peninsula

February 20, 2022February 17, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Joshua C. Allen's The White Oak Peninsula is an ode to a place, a nostalgic discourse into earthy wildness and days of youth and adventure that many of us can relate to.

Tagged childhood, friendship, nature, nature writing, nostalgia, Poem, poet, Poetry, wilderness, wildness, youthLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Jenna Wysong Filbrun – Church

September 26, 2021September 24, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Jenna Wysong Filbrun's Church is an ode to nature, life, and belonging in a time of spiritual upheaval, an ode to the wilderness, which was humanity's first place of worship.

Tagged belonging, church, divine, divinity, God, life, nature, Poem, Poetry, Spirituality, wilderness1 Comment
Clarissa Estes
Book Bits, Short Stories

Sealskin, Soulskin – A Fable About Returning to Our Wild Origins

May 7, 2021May 7, 2021 Vanessa Able

The myth of losing a pelt speaks deeply to being divested of time, resources and creative energy in the service of psychic support of others.

Tagged myth, origin, Original Nature, wilderness, wolves, WomenLeave a comment
Wendell Berry
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Wendell Berry – The Peace of Wild Things

September 23, 2020September 23, 2020 Vanessa Able

Berry's poem looks to nature for release from world-weariness and despair, and suggests a kind of liberation through reviving our relationship with the wilderness.

Tagged Freedom, grace, nature, peace, Poetry, wilderness2 Comments
Nicholas Trandahl
Featured

Nicholas Trandahl – The Chapel

April 26, 2020December 29, 2020 Vanessa Able

In his poem, The Chapel, Nicholas Trandahl sets out what he looks for when it comes to faith and spirituality. A lifelong seeker of truth and inner peace, he imagines a fictional space deep in the heart of the wilderness, where pilgrims and seekers can finally rest after their journeys.

Tagged 2020, chapel, divine, faith, forest, God, journey, nature, pilgrims, salvation, Spirituality, wilderness3 Comments
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- BOOK BITS -

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- POETRY-

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