I sure would be grateful if you picked up a copy of my new poetry collection Cabin Sketches. These poems are a love letter to wildness, sacredness, and healing. #nicholastrandahl #cabinsketches #poetry #newrelease #poems #poet

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My sudden rush of inspiration continues! I’ve been thinking a lot about California the last week or so. This afternoon, this poem “Long Beach” poured out of me in the sudden rush, based on fragments of memories from the time I spent in southern California five years ago.
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Yesterday, I think I finished a poem I’ve been working on for over five years. “El Paso Brisket” is a poem about memory, fate, and violence, centered on a good memory from when I lived in El Paso in my early 20s, just before I deployed as a soldier and everything changed.
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I woke up on this frigid snowy morning here in northern Wyoming to the magnificent news that my poem “Absolution” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize for Poetry by @thewayback2ourselves literary and arts journal!
I’m so grateful and so honored!
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These four pages comprise the second-to-last draft (I think) of my poem “Ringbone Lake, Autumn”. I shared a very early draft of this poem on here back in late September, but I think now it’s finally settled in a space I’m happy with.
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On the canyon rim
a blizzard swallows the pines.
I read my compass.
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Post you from a different era

In the mountain’s lap

blue quietude
boulderfield
above the lake

cow moose
and her calf

wandering
the glacial creek

beside my lonely little tent
as I read Hemingway

far

from the doom
which will find me
come winter.
#SenseWrds Prompt 1 #poem #poetry #poet #outdoors

I believe I just added the final poem to the manuscript for my next poetry collection, Cabin Sketches. Stay tuned for release details next month and an early 2025 release date! This will likely be my last #poetry collection for a few years, so I’m packing it full of all sorts of goodies.
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I am gathered
in yellow pools
of mountain lion irises

unaware
as I climb

up
into ochre tundra

pools of crusted snow

glacial granite

Precambrian

dusted
in lichens.

Ignorance
is bliss

and I am
in wild Paradise.
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Beyond the old pine
aurora borealis
dancing amethyst
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Astraeus adorns
November sky in a dress
of pastel photons.
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Currently reading her Revolutionary Letters! So good!

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“Nirvana is Snowing
Right down on his head
Everything’s all right”

-Jack Kerouac,
Mexico City Blues
#jackkerouac #kerouac #beatpoets #poetry #poet #outdoors #hike #nature

Howdy, friends! I’m an award-winning poet, outdoorsman, journalist, Army veteran, and community leader.
I’m a big fan of wild, experimental, spontaneous composition, and Beat poetry.
Check out my poetry collections “Mountain Song”, “Purgatory”, and “All the Color, All the Wind”.
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THREE of my poems were recently accepted by The Way Back To Ourselves, a spiritual literary journal, for inclusion in their fall edition!
My poems “Cherries on the Bison Flats”, “Above Florence Pass”, and a section of my eight-part epic poem “Cabin Sketches”. #poetry #poet #publishing #poems

It was a productive day, hiking out into snowy rugged backcountry, and returning home with my poetry journal full notes and poetry fragments.
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