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<p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A full-length poetry collection from the award-winning poet of </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In the Shadows of the Morn</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Andrew Ross Nature Poetry Award (2017)</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This is Robert Schout's second full-length collection of poetry. His first collection - </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Light Stream: Spirit Inspired Poetry and Poetic Prose</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> - featured inspirational contemplative and spiritual journey poems that have invited people around the world into reflective states of consciousness. In his second collection - </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Listen: Wisdom from Nature in Poetic Form</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> - Robert shares conversations with and about Nature transcribed in poetic form. Through his poetry the reader receives many of the revelations of wisdom beauty and guidance that Nature has to offer. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>ROBERT SCHOUT 's nature-guided spiritually-inspired and LGBTQ-themed poetry has been published in journals periodicals anthologies and magazines since 2007. Robert's full-length collection of nature-inspired poetry combines traditional poetic verse free-form poetry and poetic </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>prose. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Robert invites you to receive through verse what Nature can teach us daily. His poems invite the reader to listen to: lessons from the trees the water's reflections the sun sky and wisdom carried on a breeze the mountains and to oneself as one wanders along nature's many paths.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Robert Schout's collection of nature poetry positions him firmly in the company of the finest poets of nature: Mary Oliver W.S. Merwin Katherine Riegel Dan Chiasson and R.W. Emerson.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>ROBERT SCHOUT is an American poet whose work has been published in periodicals and anthologies: </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Timeless Voices</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>(2007) </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sacred Journeys</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> (2007) </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Scenes from the</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Live Poets' Society</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> (2011). Robert Schout is an author of children's books </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What Can I Do Today? What Can I Say Today? What Can I See Today?</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What Can I Give Today</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>? </span></p>