The Good Earth: Canyons of Gratitude

By Robyn Nygumburo Bridges

The earth pulses with a slow heartbeat, inviting us to quiet our own. Through time in nature, we downshift from busy days to spacious wisdom and from mental chatter to gracious sentience. The Good Earth offers refreshing reminders of the beauty of wild animals, rushing streams, and starlit nights. It returns us to visceral relief for our bodies and valued peace for our troubled minds. Gratitude then naturally bubbles up, and we revel in refreshed spirits.
Through the enclosed poems, you may rediscover how much you actually belong to nature, to others, and to yourself. In the process, your own canyons of gratitude will guide you toward greater wellbeing, with all the attendant blessings.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Jan 8, 2016
• ISBN: 9781504340526

Robyn Nygumburo Bridges

Robyn Nygumburo Bridges, M Ed, has authored several books encouraging human interface with the natural world. The Good Earth: Canyons of Gratitude is her second of five books of poetry. After 25 years of private practice as a Body-Mind-Spirit Counselor, she now continues to write, speaks at inspirational conferences, and travels in order to research and appreciate new landscapes. Robyn is the author of three “Medicine” books: Moose Medicine: Healing Wisdom from the Natural World, Two-Legged Medicine: How to be Your Own Brilliant Therapist, and Turtle Medicine: The Art of Swimming Sideways. Now, her second book of poetry, The Good Earth: Canyons of Gratitude, follows her first, This Way to the Kiva: Poems for the Journey Home. Explore link or link and order through your local bookstore, Balboa Press, or link

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THE GOOD EARTH

Canyons of Gratitude

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Robyn Nygumburo Bridges

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Copyright © 2016 Robyn Nygumburo Bridges.

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ISBN: 978-1-5043-4051-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5043-4052-6 (e)

Balboa Press rev. date: 1/7/2016

CONTENTS

PART I: MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, AND TREES

Bridgers—O-Wa-Nee

Tobacco Root Mountain Baptism

On the Property, Springhill

Leaving the Crazies

Witness

River Voice

River Songs

The Standing People

The Sacred Rooted

The Good Earth

PART II: ANIMALS, SEASONS, AND THE ELEMENTS

Moose Morning

Bear Medicine

Seasons of Moose

Serengeti

He Goes Easily

August in Montana

Horse Medicine

Eagle Wind

Wind Brother

Cloud Dancing

PART III: QUIET TRYSTS

Secrets

Remembrance

Wait Awhile

Sustenance

Ard Na Sidhe, on Loch Carragh

Innisfallen

Montana, Flathead Lake

PART IV: ALL WHO WANDER

White in Tucson

Ventana

Gold Lake, Colorado

Ireland

We Who Know Innisfallen

The Sidhe

Sentient In Sedona

Arriving, Elkhorn Ranch

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MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, AND TREES

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Beloved

Bridgers—O-Wa-Nee

Layers of mountain stretching out under winter’s white blankets

            call to me like an ancient lover incomplete without the other.

Long snow-covered toplines undulate over impassable roads,

            lying cold and still between blue sky and long timbered fingers.

The mountains lean toward my house