POETRY I NATURE

The Land of Giants

A poem

Natalie Gasper
2 min readApr 30, 2024

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Sunrise over the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina.
Photo by Elijah Mears on Unsplash

I needed to escape, to cast
off my name and get lost
in a place where time
is measured by the rising
of the moon, her constellations
slowly turning in their eternal
cosmic dance. I wish I could hear
the music they move to.

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Natalie Gasper
Write Under the Moon

Writer I Poet I Reader I Daydreamer I My poetry is in dozens of journals. When I’m not writing books, I’m writing about writing. Twitter @NatalieGasper