Nicholas Trandahl

Road Trip to Ketchum, Idaho: Writing a Poem About an Iconic Author Travel with poet Nicholas Trandahl and read his poem "Hemingway"

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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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Thanks, friend! 😊

Nice fur pants! 😉

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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Thank you!! 😊

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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Which records did you get?!

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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over an image of spilling ink, this design states: Weekend Prompt: SAD use the prompt word in a sixword, tenword, tanka or haiku please credit art & photos combo prompts welcome post with the hashtag #inkMine

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#prompts Nov 22, 2024

Weekend #Prompt - SAD
(any form of the word)
sixword~tenword~tanka~haiku

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Thank you!!

On the canyon rim
a blizzard swallows the pines.
I read my compass.
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Happy Friday haiku poets, new and experienced!

This week’s #prompt:

blizzard

Tag #WalesHaikuJournal and please read/share others that participate💖

We can’t wait to see where this takes you 📷 #haiku #poetrycommunity

Thank you so very much, Esha! Thanks for following as well! 🙌

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This week, I’m honored to have three of my unpublished #poems appear in the brand new edition of The Way Back to Ourselves! Appearing are one part of my unreleased epic poem “Cabin Sketches”, “Above Florence Pass”, and “Cherries on the Bison Flats”.
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This collection changed the trajectory of my poetry forever. 🙌

Thank you so very much!! 😊

Thanks, friend! And fond of tents and the outdoors, even in those days. 🏕️

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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So excited for this!!!

Here we go! We will begin at the beginning again. Do Not use the prompt words in your piece. Please use #SenseWrds so I can find your piece, and include the prompt number. Feel free to message if you have more questions on how this prompt works. Happy writing! ~M 🙏🏻

Thank you!!

Thanks, Helen! 💛

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.
#inkmine #poem #poetry #poet #outdoors

over an image of spilling ink, this design states: Weekly Prompt: YELLOW, LICHEN, OCHRE, CORNUCOPIA, TANGLE, GROOVE use the prompt words, or their evocation in an original write please credit art & photos combo prompts welcome post with the hashtag #inkMine

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#prompts Mon NOV 18, 2024

Weekly #Prompt -
YELLOW LICHEN OCHRE CORNUCOPIA TANGLE GROOVE

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I have many good memories of your #SenseWrds prompt when I was a young emerging poet back in the Twitter days!

Yay!! I can’t wait! 🙌