ASHLAND Nature has always been a friend to Steve Holt. “As a young man, I often went to the hills for solace, roaming and thinking,” he said, noting he hunted and fished with his father, but that wasn ...

And, in the poem, nature is personified in different ways. Walking and listening to your own thoughts was probably quite a big part of writing that poem. AKALA: And there's this real sense of the ...

Her poetry is about people, the old and the young, the sick and the dying, and the fleeting moments she observed. It is about the beauty of nature and solace in walking among the trees and hills.