E2 | Rosemerry Trommer | Of Ink & Earth: The Poetic Gifts of Grief, Love, & Wonder
“It’s important to honour what the practice really is: showing up with wonder, curiosity, openness, spaciousness, with a love of mystery.”
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In the second episode of Wild Heart Revival, Rosemerry Trommer beckons us into a grounded exploration of the plentiful well of possibility that is poetry, inviting us to draw from its depths and discover the richness therein. Where Earth, Heart, and Spirit converge, the wild and rugged beauty of cave-like love exists, alongside the graceful flight of rough-legged hawks, and the radiant warmth of the sun. With sincerity and transparency, Rosemerry unveils the poetic gifts nestled within grief, love, and wonder, inviting us to embrace the simplicity that underlies each moment. Join us as we wander through the tangled landscapes of language and poetry, with bewilderment, curiosity, and a reverence for the mysteries that surround us.
Find Thematic Show Notes Below.
Rosemary’s Bio & Relevant Links:
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer co-hosts Emerging Form (a podcast on creative process), Secret Agents of Change (a surreptitious kindness cabal) and Soul Writer’s Circle. Her poetry has appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, O Magazine, American Life in Poetry, on Carnegie Hall stage, and on river rocks she leaves around town. Her collection Hush won the Halcyon Prize. Naked for Tea was a finalist for the Able Muse Book Award. Rosemerry has been writing and sharing a poem a day since 2006—a practice that especially nourished her after the death of her teenage son in 2021. Find her daily poems on her blog, A Hundred Falling Veils or a curated version (with optional prompts) on her daily audio series, The Poetic Path, available on your phone with the Ritual app. She is the author of Exploring Poetry of Presence II: Prompts to deepen your writing practice, and her poetry album, Dark Praise, explores “endarkenment,” available anywhere you listen to music. Her most recent collection is All the Honey. In January 2024, she became the first poet laureate for Evermore, and is helping others explore grief, bereavement, wonder and love through poetry.
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Thematic Show Notes
Poetry as a Pathway to Deeper Connection with Nature:
Exploring how poetry and a poetic orientation can deepen our love and appreciation for the natural world.
Embracing Authenticity and Transparency:
Being aware of what is true and meeting the world in a real, intimate, and transparent way.
Navigating the Creative Process:
Recognizing the dangers of seeking specific outcomes in the creative process and the importance of touching truth in creative endeavors.
Soulful Self-Authorship and Transformation:
Delving into the intentional transformation of our guiding metaphors and the concept of soulful self-authorship.
Understanding Language as Metaphor:
Exploring the idea that all language is metaphorical and acknowledging the limits of metaphors in capturing the essence of experience.
“All language is metaphor . . . As exciting as they are [metaphors], they all have their limits. Knowing that each one does its very best to point to the heart of it but none of them ever get to. They are just doing their best. That is all a metaphor can do.”
— Rosemerry
Purposefully re-crafting our metaphors in service to our hopes, dreams, intentions, and desires.
The Entanglement of Grief and Joy:
Examining the relationship between joy and grief, and how they intertwine in the human experience.
Letting Go and Allowing Life to Unfold:
Reflecting on the process of letting go of the metaphor of "holding" and embracing the idea of letting life come to us.
“Life itself moves through us to meet itself.” — Rosemerry
Simplicity Amidst Complexity:
Unearthing the paradox of simplicity and complexity, and the importance of trusting in the natural unfolding of life.
Poetry as a Practice of Wonder and Curiosity:
Recognizing poetry as a byproduct of authentic practice, grounded in wonder, curiosity, openness, and a love of mystery.