Ecstasy

by Emily Bowden

I drew inspiration for this piece from the two most beautiful landscapes that have my heart: The Pacific Northwet and the Faroe Islands. I find comfort in the beauty of the landscape I grew up in, with evergreen trees and rugged cliffs, but when I visited the Faroe Islands, I was confronted with a new beauty that shook me to the core. Beauty comes in many forms and changes the way you see the world. This was my ecstasy.

Among the trees I’d rather be,

Nestled deep in canopy.

A shadowed shelter from the breeze

Is where my heart is put at ease.

There’s nowhere else I’d rather be,

But Beauty—She has woken me.

So here I stand on barren hills,

Exposed to wind that never stills

Where water runs to find its firth and

Trickles down the seeping earth so

Wet and smeared by trampled grass it

Glistens now like crystal glass that