There is a historical romanticized image of the poet as someone wandering throughout isolated mountain forests, like a hermit or monk...

When we write poetry, the best of it stems from our emotional state. Poetry and emotion are linked closely together...

It is spring, and listening to the birds singing outside my window I have been thinking about music lately,..

I began to write poetry out of grief and loss, to express the outpouring of feelings that came after my parents’ deaths.

I thought you might enjoy some nature poem recommendations for laid-back light reading, along with my own comments about the poems.

Losing a loved one can mean you feel painful grief for a long time. Often it can help to express those feelings through writing poetry.