What things are like Feral Poetry?

We can never leave the wild, although we think we can. Our very essence is wild. Ultimately, we return to who we really are, in life and in death. One day this body will become soil and the roots of the world — and so too, we emerge from this earth–as Alan Watts said, like apples from an apple tree.

All ideas, all things emerge in this way. Some ideas and systems of thought out there which I have found compliment and make sense with Feral Poetry are: Eco-Psychology and Archetypal Psychology, Dharma (Shambhala) Art, Keats’ idea of Beauty, Coleridge’s degrees of “Imagination”, Ken Wilber’s integral theories, Gary Snyder’s understanding of the words “wild” and “nature”, Daoism, animism, mysticism … … the list goes on.

Authors and thinkers (who sometimes double as poets) who work along the same lines: Gary Snyder, David Abram, Abraham Maslow, James Hillman, Chogyam Trungpa, John Moriarty, Alan Watts, Richard Tarnas, Brian Swimme, Thomas Berry, Ralph Metzner, Theodore Roszak, Bill Plotkin, Joanna Macy,  C.G. Jung, Derrick Jensen, Chellis Glendinning, Steve and Meredith Foster, Shams of Tabriz

Who writes Feral Poetry?

Anyone can. Some poets seem to manifest it more in their writing than others. My list is of course as limited to my range of reading and experience, and that of my friends, but here’s an ever-growing list:

David Whyte, Rainer Maria Rilke, Mary Oliver, Gary Snyder, Jason Kirkey, Frank Owen, John O’Donohue, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, WB Yeats, James Liter, Han Shan (Father of Feral Poetry), Ryokan, Ikkyu, Rumi,  Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Blake

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