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To write well about any subject, the writer should have experience with that subject. As our culture becomes more environmentally aware, we as individuals are at the same time more isolated than ever before from our environment.
The Christian eco-poet seeks to see creation with open eyes, mind alert to the possibilities in a branch, or blade of grass. In actively engaging nature and recording both the harmony and dissonance of experiantial moments in the wild, the poet reveals smaller truths and opens the door to the profound. “Green” poetry borrows from tradition melding with the modern, from the great nature poets of previous generations to emerging trends in literary ecocriticism and environmental stewardship. As our society is finding new validity in this renewed poetic genre the green Christian is also finding voice.
For writers attuned to Scripture, using organic metaphor and authentic encounters with nature can become a way to transcend the direct context of the event and establish or expand spiritual truths about reality.
Issues within our local environments become analogies to expand and apply truths about awareness, about being in nature, the importance of our wild places, and deep meanings within the natural. Each unique experiences provides minute details of place, landscape, and object giving physical and emotional veracity which exceeds the narrowness of linear time. In this way we begin to seek, to explore the impact of a relational God on the earth, as well as human relationships and accountability with the wild.
Learn more about Eco-Poetry, schedule a Writing Workshop today. Contact Lochlanina for more information. |
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