My poetry looks to positively explore human potential, with an emphasis on love, spiritual growth and self awareness. It is very important to me that my work remains as open, accessible and as simply expressed as possible. My influences vary from the great traditional English visionary romantics through to the distillation of thought and leanness of expression offered by the Japanese haiku tradition, the shining examples of Rilke, Eliot and Gibran – as well as the later technical breakthroughs achieved by leading Scottish concrete poets Ian Hamilton Finlay and Edwin Morgan.
See how
We find ourselves
On the very cusp
Of learning
How it’s the experience
Of just being here,
Joyfully in the moment,
That dissolves
Any disconnect.
As we meld together,
Again and again,
In our own self-made
Shafts of sunlight
That can so easily
Survive succumbing
To any melancholy
Along the way.
And with
The very best
Of intentions too.
At least, in our hearts,
Having been this once
To heaven!
How you bless me still…
For what is it
We’ll ever leave
Behind us in the end?
If it is not the best
Of ourselves
In each other.
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Striking isn’t it?
How the joyous
Always reveal
Something fresh
And glorious
About themselves.
Illusions of vulnerability
Evaporated by pure spirit.
Just as it was that day
You kissed someone.
And for
The very first time
They truly kissed you back.
This then the beauty
Of being alive,
Pared down
To its very essentials.
Its trigger point.
~~~~~~~~~~
Pain passes,
Whilst true joy
Remains.
And with that certainty
Comes the bittersweet
Melancholy
Of another new dawn.
The re-making of everything,
The coming again of the light.
And so it is,
Each and every day.
Be it in the persistently
Joyful call
Of a lark at daybreak,
Or the lingering odour
From some foraging fox
The night before.
It’s at times like this,
The world grows modest.
Seems to shrink down
And, when savoured
Close to, intensifies
To such singular peaks
Of curious intimacy
That somehow embody
All that matters.
Remember that glorious
Moonlit swim?
Or the time, one pungent
And luminous
Late summers afternoon,
We ran so freely
Across the broad slope
Of the farmer’s
Newly harvested field,
Like wild horses forever.
We claimed those moments
For ourselves, didn’t we?
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I can still recall how
It was the best feeling
In the world,
The first time
You asked me how I was,
As if it was the only thing
That mattered to you.
And at last,
Unfettered as we are,
See how far
We’ve come since.
Such again
Is the promise
Of tomorrow,
If we can be
Who we should be.
All we’ve since come
To hold dear
Adding real weight
To this, the onward journey
Of our souls.
A choice
To which we first
Exposed ourselves
In that precious moment,
Beyond any imperative
Of staying secure.
It was how
We bridged that gap.
And now, for sure my love,
We’ll know of the angels
When they come for us…
~~~~~~~~~~
Come what may,
Good days and bad,
Ancient seeds
Of inbred fear
And lust to be
Tremble.
Shoot forth
With evolutionary purpose,
An illusion of progress
It’s hard to shake off.
Oh, that we had learnt!
Kept much closer
To mind,
All we and our forbears
Have since seen
Play out here.
The lessons of the past
Repeatedly urging
Upon us
A far more generous,
More forgiving,
Less acquisitive
Pattern of being.
And all the while,
Beneath
The brooding moon,
An erosion of emotions
And ambition
Already misspent,
Leak into sorrow
And wastefulness.
But wait!
In our hearts
A far kinder dream
Speaks to us still,
Apparent
It’s shape
Belongs to heaven.
Oh, that we could ever
Acquire the humility,
The lift of true grace
To claim it,
More courageously,
Here and now.
~~~~~~~~~~
Whatever doubts
We might have
Of ourselves.
Such as we are,
We are capable
Of so much.
But perhaps,
Loving you as I did,
All too briefly
And in wonderful rallies,
If only I’d had the chance
To be more constant,
To cup
The very essence
Of your heartache,
Your sadness.
As if I were truly
Inside you myself.
And had the chance
To feel this too,
Also your glory.
So yes, these days,
The deeper regrets
Always gather,
As they will,
Much more around
What has been left
As yet unacknowledged,
Than ever they do
About sacred chances
Taken, even fitfully,
Such as this.
As Breathless,
I stand in the midst
Of your beauty still.
~~~~~~~~~~
Stutter
And sway in spirit,
As we sometimes
Might,
Our souls still touch.
And, year on year,
As the bonds
We’ve fashioned so
Begin to coil
And circle
Ever closer around us,
One cannot help
But notice
That ultimately
It’s the intimacy
That matters.
And when
We are together thus
Once more,
How elastic
Our existence
Becomes.
The indelible presence
Of precious times
Gone by.
Aglow again
In the promise
Of so many fresh blooms
Still to come.
~~~~~~~~~~
Time is forever short,
When your world
Can turn in a second.
And everything,
Frail or not,
Be irreversibly
Swept away.
Yet, all the while,
Moistened
By a gaze
That’s like
A soothing balm
To any such outcome.
We cannot help,
But reach
For comfort,
For purpose, for meaning.
Fermenting
An unending aspiration
To make the world
Anew.
Which is,
In itself,
A rebellion
Against waste.
After all,
From the soiled earth
Fresh flowerings
Will come.
And in their
Glorious wake,
A re-energised belief
In redemption,
True beauty.
Life seen afresh
In iridescent
Colours of promise,
Long since hewn
From an abandoned sky.
~~~~~~~~~~
Set against
A cavernously
Empty
Star-lit sky.
Consider your life,
As it is now…
The hollowed out
Remnants
Of what was once
To be.
And marvel
At how
Sparks
Can still fly!
What a wonder
And a great comfort
That is too.
Down here,
On this kind
Soft earth,
Where,
Each and every day,
Light fades
And the dark night
Still gathers up
Her fathomlessly
Sequined skirts
Around you.
~~~~~~~~~~
Life is suffering
Speckled with joy.
So treasure it
When that blessing comes.
Bringing with it,
As it does,
A nourishment
That’s so rich,
So intense,
You could run a knife
Through it,
Like a slab of butter.
A sacred hamper
Of hope then,
For far tougher days
Ahead,
When storms
A plenty
Will, once again,
Seem to chide us so.
Yet surely
We’ve all lived
Long enough
To know
There’s no such thing
As mere coincidence.
Feeble creatures
As we are,
Somehow mysteriously
Never quite able
To see round the corner.
For whatever injury
And despair
We might inflict
Upon our world,
Nature has its own acumen,
Its own steady intent
And will show us
The way back home,
If we allow it to.
~~~~~~~~~~
The spark
In a void,
Once only a shell.
A curl,
A husk of life,
A chrysalis
Waiting to burst.
Awakening
Becomes
A morning look
That welcomes
Warmth,
No sour or arid
Sleep now.
Such rising spirit
A swelling mound,
A fine, fresh
Moist prominence
Of sorts,
Eager to receive
Such gain.
Pressing, breasting,
Poised
To leave its mark.
And yes,
We all leave
Such stains,
Such energies
Behind us,
For there’s
No other way
To be generous here.
Giving back
Gloriously
At our own expense
Into a rinsing bowl
Of tears.
The sparkle
Of our dreams
Caught threadbare,
Between the cracks.
~~~~~~~~~~
Come what may,
Good days and bad,
Ancient seeds
Of inbred fear
And lust to be
Tremble.
Shoot forth
With evolutionary purpose,
An illusion of progress
It’s hard to shake off.
Oh, that we had learnt!
Kept much closer
To mind,
All we and our forbears
Have since seen
Play out here.
The lessons of the past
Repeatedly urging
Upon us
A far more generous,
More forgiving,
Less acquisitive
Pattern of being.
And all the while,
Beneath
The brooding moon,
An erosion of emotions
And ambition
Already misspent,
Leak into sorrow
And wastefulness.
But wait!
In our hearts
A far kinder dream
Speaks to us still,
Apparent
It’s shape
Belongs to heaven.
Oh, that we could ever
Acquire the humility,
The lift of true grace
To claim this vision
More courageously,
Here and now.
~~~~~~~~~~
By dint of
So many undulations
Of faith, of mettle,
Of resolve
On the surface of this,
Our mortal struggle.
What finely tuned
Definition
There is already
In the story,
The pattern,
The textured travail
Of our lives.
As if encoded
Permanently
On some shiny
Lacquered disc.
Such that
One could imagine
We might well
Be tempted one day
To gather up
Some vast audience
And sing our hearts out.
But why
Should we
Ever need to,
My friend?
When all we love
We have given
Our hearts to…
All we honour
And still hold to be true…
Will still ring out
So loudly,
Long after we’ve gone.
~~~~~~~~~~
In between
The doors
To the known
And the unknown,
This where we can
Get lost altogether,
If we don’t take care.
Our spirit
Destined to wither,
If we hesitate
And let this miasma be.
See how
So many planets
Timelessly
Circle their sun,
Such ardent yearning
For fertile valleys
Never once fulfilled!
Truly, in the shadow
Of such doleful majesty,
We are forever young!
And for that blessing
Alone,
We must always
Be looking to take
The unique
And fabulous chances
We’ve been given
Whilst we still can.
~~~~~~~~~~
Remember
All we spoke of
And all you shared
Of yourself.
How it warmed me so….
And, as you left me
In that sun-lit meadow,
The whispers
Of all we spilt together
Trailed on behind you.
A lingering impression
Within which
All that was meant to be
Had been realised.
So vivid
And illuminating
In the moment.
This, our one-time bond,
Our passion for life
Fully expressed.
And whatever
This might well
Have cost us,
My love,
Its lingering presence
In our hearts
Soon becomes our refuge.
Soft pillows
Of glorious truth.
~~~~~~~~~~
My life
Founded on
Quicksand it seems.
And oft so.
As if beleaguered
By some spiky-clawed
Civet,
Or the piercing scream
Of peacocks,
I feel beset upon.
So flay my skin
Then,
If you must,
Because there’s times
When I think
I do not belong
In such a world
That looks to cage me so.
Though here I am,
As ever,
Still splayed out here
For all to see.
My very being
A refraction
Of some shrill awareness
That is,
At the same time,
Most terrible
And most glorious too.
Especially when,
Whatever risks
I might take,
An acquiescence to passivity
Is the most
Terrifying prospect of all.
For I am like a kiss
Just missing a cheek,
A veritable treacle of desire.
~~~~~~~~~~
To know
True beauty
Is to never
Be a slave again.
This such
Welcome music
To my heart.
So, shall
I do what I can
To settle here awhile.
Amidst treasures
That still prevail
Somehow,
As if to appease heaven.
Call me the breeze then,
As I pass on through.
Hoping I too
Will bring the best
Of my presence
To bear.
Leaving behind me
At least
Some sweet song
For others to hear.
~~~~~~~~~~
They are all such inspirational poems in their own way! I really like the poem that starts ‘A busy city”. Its something I can relate to. It’s funny how a smile from a stranger can make such a big difference to your day. This is how it should be! And if only it happened more often, the world would be a much brighter place.
So pleased that you are writing again – some made me hurry on, some made me pause and read them again, one caused a tear.
Some excellent stuff here. Definitely worth bookmarking for revisiting – Thank you
I read your poems. They are so beautifully written. Loved them all!
Great pen at great words, forcing readers’ attention from the beginning to the last line. I held my breath till the end. Good job indeed!
Unbelievable. I swear on my life These are by far the most captivating words of art I have ever read. Apologies if that sounds a little exaggerated, but it’s honest and only way to express my opinion. Amazing Scott. Truly amazing.
Beautiful and touching. You truly have a talent for conveying words in a lovely and eloquent manner. Love it! Bravo!
Dear scott,
“The experience of age is in your every move,
Your every thought, your every instinct,
Each breath you take.”
And I found it, felt it in every poem you have written,
In every stanza, in every line,
Even in every word!
May God bless you in every walk of your life!
— Shardanand.
I was impressed by these magical words , Scott. Wish you the best in your life!
Scott, I have only read two of your poems so far and I must say they are beautiful and well written. You are a talented poet!
Enjoyed reading several of your writings, especially your most ‘recent writing’
Youre so cool! I dont suppose Ive read something like this before. So nice to find somebody with such beautiful and original thoughts – Thankyou!
Thankyou Scott, for your inspiring words.
I visited your website and enjoyed reading your inspirational poems.
I just love your site. It is a visual delight!! Read some of your poems and again enjoyed everyone. I love the way you write. You have magic in your words!!
Best to you my friend, Laura
Scott Hastie’s poetry – a beautiful, soulful, spiritual read.
Another fellow poet who is in a luminous quest toward the beautiful.
I adore your work and words so far on the web site. I am on a spiritual path myself and it can be difficult. Poetry is a creative outlet, I will visit your page often.
Went through a few of your poems. What an intense poet that you are… your unbridled creativity..replete with pleasure,pain, pathos …profound melancholy; yet plaintive ,sublime…genre of poetry;stirring the chords of our hearts…touching our very core…our souls.
Your work is quite beautiful!
I have to say, I am quite impressed actually……Did you have an experience or Epiphany of sorts that got you started in Poetry???? Not to be vain or assuming they are, but some of these sound like they are about me….I suppose it’s only because I think in comparisons and there are more than the usual likes with a similar alignment as my own. I find your work Brilliant and Understanding to others Deepest Parts of One’s Inner Soul and Care about another’s emotions.
You can send me updates with more to my email if you like…I would like it…thanks
As an editor, I see a lot of work. This has impressed me. There is a gentle nature in your poetry; however, I still found myself immersed. There are a few things that I look for in the mechanics of poetry. One is punctuation… it is nearly flawless. Another is word choice- your work demonstrates both variety and originality. My best suggestion would be to try new styles in poetry. Free-verse has a resounding voice with your style, but readers like to see a variety in styles. I’m not sure if you have ever tried haiku or Shakespearean style sonnets but your written voice would go very well with either. Overall, I was moved by the gentle voice of your words that balanced perfectly with emotion.
Scott says: thanks for your detailed and thoughtful feedback Andrea – much appreciated… I find your understanding of where I am creatively to be quite disarmingly intuitive…
Although I tend not to write haiku, they have long been a key inspiration – along with some concrete poetry of the 1970’s in terms of the effort to capture a distillation, within a spiritual sensibility… and I find myself slipping naturally into the form (tanka also..) from time to time in various short stansas. Re: WS – you have stumbled into one of my, till now, best kept secrets! Namely that an ambition I have had, rather bashfully, for a while now is to be looking to develop an appropriately humble degree of a ‘Shakepearian voice’ and run it through contemporary free verse forms – how clever of you to spot that!
A very insightful and inspiring poem this is Scott-a thought provoking, versatile, rhythmic configuration of an event, or rather a journey called “life”
How refreshing it has been to embrace your words, your gift…no pretense, no shallow nuance but skilled focus on the words. One of your newest fans, I will return often. You will also appear on my blogroll. Cheers
Your site and writing – I find it inspiring and reflects your thoughts and emotions beautifully. I can see through your mind and soul by reading your work… It is like you are drawing with words.
I visited your website, it was a colorful with real inspiring and lofty thoughts, which helps the whole human community to understand and learn something on life. I really take pride in saying that I will be one of the regular visitors of your site.
I do so love your stuff…
Scott I read your poems and was very impressed. I am not usually a person who reads poetry but it is easy to read and understand. Your website is delightfully beautiful. I am an artist also and your site speaks to my artistic voice.
From Shoguns patching wounds with gold to turning a busy corner and smiling into the eyes of a heart-stopping stranger whose soul wove threads of scarlet into yours eons ago to finding God in the eyes of a lover to realising with chilling certainty that every night in a lover’s bed has been a threesome, the third party — death.
I cannot choose just one poem from this exceptional body of work…but couplets here and there that jumped from the illuminated pages like one of those Shogan seams of gold:
“splash of wildflowers that freckle the shaded tawny look of ancient meadows”
“music the gentle magic myths are made of”
“muddled by prescribed faith and the ever-shifting tolerances of others that will hasten to judge or condemn you”
“of those who were once staggering, bleeding and lost, who have somehow found their way back to their own angel within…”
“we too can repair our cracks with gold and glow again crazed by life, more beautiful than ever”
“patterns however intricate that fit, and between them gaps, potentials, knowing rhythms, inevitabilities that lock and spin…”
…to name but a very few!
Each and every poem a beautiful sermon in the highest temple of life! If your poems were read from the pulpit on a Sunday instead the dry old badgering and blaming there would be a flood of converts… Scott, your poetry takes me into a world at once familiar and yet marvellously unknown and even though I am a tourist in that magical terrain it’s a place I want to visit often.
Good day Scott, This is Daniel and I just wanted to let you know that I love where you coming from, even more I love where you’re going with it, you’re writing is wonderful within itself… I will be reading more, as my time allows.
Scott, your poems are wonderful and have a magical quality. I am great fan of your poetry which oozes such sensitivity and verve that it has the ability to transport its readers to different realm.
Just recently I’ve discovered Scott’s poetry and I can say that I am delighted with what I’ve ‘discovered’.
I always find something I’ve been looking for, (“to dazzle in the light”), without knowing I’m looking for it, here. Thank you, Scott.
sk-g
Your poetry is infectious. Your mind is pure genius. I hope with your help, I could be an ounce as talented and successful as you are. Writing saved my life!
Scott, Thank you for sharing and allowing me the opportunity to read and view your amazing works of creativity. For sure you must be published more internationally and promoted more widely so more people may enjoy and get to know of your writing.
Beautiful…
I guess this poetry describes perfectly what a writer friend of mine named the “circus of life” in one of her novels. It’s a very powerful writing, which could be used as a life karma each and every day. Congratulations Scott!
As I continue to read through your portfolio, I am amazed at your unique talent. A rare gift indeed. And as I journey through your words I am also comforted. Thanks Scott.
Great stuff… beautiful and beautiful pix too !
I do enjoy your page and your sweet things on here…
The second poem is of course many want to achieve the success and not wanting to let anyone put them down. Good poem, Scott. I will read next poem soon.
I like the fourth poem. It is beautiful to stay connected and far more nasty to disconnect…Beautiful write, Scott!
Hi Scott,
I had a chance to read a few of your poems and they are beautiful.
Scott – Your work is very strong and your website is beautiful. I hope writing enriches your life the way it does mine, if that’s not a too high-falutin’ way to phrase it.
Love your poems! Really moving and get you thinking.
You are an exquisite poet, capable of reaching people through the loving, deep melody of a poem.
What lovely thoughts and images.
‘While You Slumber’
for Scott Hastie
by T.J. Sally 9-4-13
While you slumber thy words dance
Together with thine stars
Embraced as lovers within thy mind
Behind lashed curtains to wantonly
Undress for abandoned pretense
Reveal oneself unabashedly carefree
Explore without shame or restraint
Within the dark there is light
Inside, within deep you are ME
Have read some of your poems—very nice. They remind me of some of the “wisdom literature” I’ve read before. Looking forward to reading more! 🙂
Beautiful and inspiring.
Scott, your work is beautifully evocative, full of deep imagery and assonance, quiet spaces for letting the words weave their tapestry. I have been deeply impressed with the quiet moments in your verse that speak to the soul.
Dear Scott, Your poetry is very good and I appreciate it the most in the whole world…
I adore the latest works. Your writing expands the subconscious view of life and gives credible observations. Poetry with substance is a double blessing. Wonderful. Nice work Scott.
Prowled around your site; lovely stuff! The site flows very well and it’s very well structured. Your pics and writing is all quite interesting; I shall read further.
Hola Scott,
Explored your website and was overwhelmed by its richness and depth of your poetry. I will return soon and cogitate further on your offerings.
Scott,
Your work is exceptionally creative in content and style. When I read several of your poems my mind merged with them for a few seconds, as though I was involved in the scene you were describing. A wonderful array of work from a very talented individual. Thank you. MD
Hi There Scott,
can’t wait to check our your new poems!
Happy New Year to you!
Your work is very insightful and imaginative. I get the sense that you are speaking directly to me in the way that music speaks to a person’s core being. Keep on keeping on…
Alscess
Layered and textured. And thought provoking. Enjoyed each piece very very much.
Just started reading your beautiful poetry last night and your writing is such a soothing balm. My emotions have gone from purple and angry red to a soft green and dappled forest, all because of your words. Thank you… I was all flood-eyed over a particularly beautiful one and was so thrilled to see it was for a Rebecca. I love sharing a kinship of names with her. Take care of your magical self, my friend, and your equally magical pen.
Wow, love your website, looks very New England meets Kerouac – I was surprised to find you are a Hertfordshire lad!
I admire anyone who can write poetry – not something I excel at. Certainly you have a flair with imagery in the relatively tight confines of poetry.
Love your website — nice work. Yes, sharing as artists in networks is so valuable.
I enjoyed my visit on your site. It is heavenly! In fact, I enjoyed myself so much I shall return and bring some friends.
I enjoyed your latest collection, Meditations. ‘m a Plath/Hughes enthusiast and have frequently taught courses on both, so really responded to “Sylvia and Ted” in particular, A lot of the poems here also have a Yeatsian quality – reading them, I was often reminded of “Lapis Lazuli” and “Sailing to Byzantium”, for example, in the use of metaphor and allusion.
“Scott, the “presence” of your work soothes like the indulgence of a delicious Latte topped with warm caramel, sipping while lounging on a terrace that overlooks Barcelona.”
Hi Scott
Thanks for accepting my request. I love your website and poetry! I’m about to expand my publishing business to include more genres, so will post about that as it happens. Be sure to contact me if you have any writings you’d like us to consider.
Scott, I very much enjoy your work.
Your work always seems to reach so deep inside me, soothing me. Like a hand stroking one’s hair, promising that everything’s going to be okay.
Scott, you are one of the best contemporary poets. Your work is a feast for the senses…
Scott Hastie is the Shakespeare of our time. His written word is something that should be pondered on … for within the prose there is meaning and understanding that goes well beyond the paper in which the letters were carefully placed. Scott is a gracious gentleman, eloquent indeed. Friendship, sincerity, wisdom and strength are all only a mere facet to this wonderful poet, writer, man. All that are lucky enough to know him will soon find that he is a precious jewel among men and a gift to all that he encounters.
The first two poems here are breath taking. They definitely spoke to me. Your writing has such emotion to it. I can relate to the feelings in them. Wonderful.
Love your poetry! Keep up the good work..
I enjoyed these poems very much. Thank you.
Dear Scott, Thank you very much for all your wonderful work..
And you are, indeed, so heavenly to be able to compose such beautiful verses.
Yes, I have been reading your amazing writing today and I must say- you are so very gifted! I have already become an admirer of your poetry.I feel so fortunate to be able to share the same planet with a wonderful soul like you, Scott.I loved the way how your heart beats out of your words.
As always I am always happy to read your beautiful Poems, so am looking forward to more..
Thank you for your beautiful poems, they really brighten my day.
Wow wow wow!!! I’m a fan…
Scott,
I really like your poems, they’re fabulous!
Many thanks again for the great poems, love them!
I very much like your style. I especially enjoyed Lost Puppies and Life Collects. I have a lot to learn as far as poetry goes, haha.
Whenever I read you, I feel, very closer to my own Soul; as if you have penned my thoughts in your excellent style, better than me!
May God bless you the fragrances of wisdom and knowledge; more and more…
~Shardanand.
Dear Brother,
I admire you always… Also because your thoughts on my works are very encouraging and inspiring.
“From my perspective, in order to appreciate Scott’s poetry, you cannot
simply read them: you must be willing to dwell in them. There is nothing
didactic about his work. This NOT a “How to Live a Meaningful and
Authentic Life for Dummies” book. In that very sense, I believe the people
who would be most attracted to his work are the people who already know the
essence, the core of his work. The experience for these people is then
going to be more like experiencing a written mantra. There is a great
feeling of both confirmation and affirmation, that yes, this is the way,
the truth and the light.
I find that his work has a great affinity with
the great Eastern traditions of thought. Although it is never stated,
there is a note of passive resistance to his work. There is the assertion
that in the face of this frenzied, materialistic world of ours, the meaning
of life is NOT to be found in “MORE!” and “FASTER!” It is to be found in
the silence of self-realization, that place beyond words wherein lies the
most profound of our understanding and comprehension.
Gratefully, I find no hint of evangelism in Scott’s work, no suggestion
that “I am the keeper of truth, and therefore everyone should think and feel like me…”
No, he is simply offering an invitation. I do not find it at all surprising that
his work encompasses a great deal of photography. For me, the secret to
great photography is to have what’s known as a “good eye,” to have the
right focus, the right perspective. Scott’s message is that you will
experience joy, serenity and a profound sense of meaning if you have the
right focus, the right perspective. From this point of view, you will
truly be able to celebrate being alive.”
Jack Haight, President Seer Productions Inc.
There is true artistry in your work… In so saying don’t ever accept a person “labelling you as one that writes poetry.” Rather believe that you’re a ‘ poet ‘ in the true sense of the word.- Arnost-
Scott I really enjoyed reading your poems. It is always an inspiration talking to someone who has stuck with it for twenty years and maintained their sense of self.
I have read your poems. All are beautiful, they come from your heart.
I am taken tenderly to the splendor of hope, love, and the gracious reality of how temporal and painful this earthly life can be. Renewed in the beginnings of the Kingdom awaits and uplifted for certain that the links that bind us together hold the key to everlasting joy. Treasured energy and precious healing is gifted to us always. Breathe it in………and embrace it. I am happy with your poetry and welcome it with all my heart…
Hi there Scott, I’ve been looking over your website and I found it very nice indeed. I love all of your stuff…
I LOVE your writing… Thank you for sharing your beautiful words and images. : )
I just wanted to let you know that I am totally impressed with your website and, of course, your poetry.
Greetings Scott, I have gone through some of your work on your website and found them both inspired and inspirational writing – with a simplicity that can only come out of deep understanding.
I have visited your site and enjoyed your poems…
Thanks for your website. Beautiful photos and nice to pair some of them with your poems. Looks like you’ve put a lot of work into your site. Lovely….
“In Scott Hastie, you will discover a poet of blessed with an immense Muse – search no further and read him!”
I appreciate you and your work much more now. I was a career newspaper journalist for 30 years until my position was outsourced two years ago. Now I write and consult on a freelance basis, hence Lee Chottiner & Associates.
“Words of The Divine waiting 4 YOU HERE……………………….YOU WILL THINK AND FEEL AS YOU NEVER HAVE BEFORE…”
Thank you, I have been reading. After all, you are my favorite poet.
I read your most recent brilliant poem yesterday. It was a magnificent literary piece again. It seems to me that there is an inexhaustible source of inspiration in your heart that makes you pen such beautiful words on the paper, make a wonderful combination of them and create a work that can so easily touch hearts. Thank you, Scott, for your exquisite poems.It’s always a pleasure to read them.
There’s this magic in your words. I mean, a marvel you are, which permeates every single thought you share. Your travels must have been inspiring too. I can’t really wait to read your new works.
I have just been reading the poems on your site. The positive streak and the overflowing beauty that you imparted to those brief verses is (or perhaps, ‘are’ (concords holding no importance at the present moment) too overwhelming for me to feed you back my critique as a fellow poet. For a few hours, let me simply relish in them as a 22-year old. Once the reverie is over, once the crying and smiles are over, I would post a comment publicly. Thank you for the resonance. Lord knows, it is us cold young people who need moving verses like yours the most.
Just a rendezvous.
Who wouldn’t like coming back again and again.
Hello Scott, I have read some of your poetry and found it really inspirational.
I didn’t get a chance to read all of your poems Scott, but what I did read I liked. I must point out here that I’m not really into poetry, so coming from me, it is a great compliment!
I think your website is wonderful too.
Keep up the good work, I’ll be back when time permits to read the poems I’ve not yet read…
I enjoyed reading your recent poems. Ironically! – your prodigious output left me rather speechless. LOL!
I have been in and read some of your poetry and it is beautiful.
Congratulations on another year of fine poetry.
Lovely poems. It is such a privilege to be able to write full time.
Such lovely words…
Scott’s poems inspired me this morning. Also, his daily routine is enviable, and one I aspire to. “Monastic writing,” indeed. That’s pure heaven. So nice to meet him here – thanks Sue!
Superb poetry. An inspiring writer and a great read…
As always very beautifully written, I love that journey of the soul.
Hi Scott, Just found your website and I am really enchanted by your poems.
I am quoting your lines that made me stop and think.
“So tell that to the trees,
Who’ve seen it all
Countless times before
And can only stand apart In the meadow of life
And wait”
Hi Scott,
Just been through your poetry. So deep and intense.
Thanks very much for touching my mind and fingers too! so deeply to start thinking about commenting on your work.
I was quite taken aback by the poetry on your website – your work is sublime, and seems to reach so deep into the human condition to truths that belie all our existences somehow. I honour your creative process, dedication and productivity, as well as your ability to complete the cycle…
Your poetry is lovely. I want to say more and will, after I have had a little more time to grasp and process the full effect of your poems; which in my case runs deep and may take a little time to fully surface. In the meantime I wanted to let you know your poems are stunningly beautiful to see, read, absorb and feel. A rare pleasure. Thank you Scott for blessing this world with your gift.
Wow! You have such articulate talents! I really enjoy your sample writing. Your style seems to be short and to the point. Its an interesting and mind expanding experience! Thank you so much for sharing!
Wow, you have a really lovely site
When I read your contemplative poems, my mind creeps into my ego to thieve some experience for making many such pleasurable imagination. I love your poems dear.
Your website is beautiful. So clean, crisp, welcoming. I love its elegance and simplicity. I read a couple of your poems and was very moved!
Your poems are really very fine and I liked them a lot. You are a good writer, even if, to tell the truth, I generally read little if any verse. You made me think of Auden, one of the few poets I occasionally read for pleasure. If I had to say anything critical? Unless I read the wrong poems, for my taste, at least, you might try to be a little more wicked, self-mocking and ironic. But if these characteristics are not at all in your nature, of course that would be wrong.
I always enjoy reading your poetry, both for the challenge of the genre and the beauty of your words.
I very much like your poetry! You are very talented, and I will check back on your website from time to time.
Your writing and website super poetic and inspiring, Bravo. I would totally like to recommend to my friends, and have done…
Have had a read through some of your works and still have some more to get through, but so far very enjoyable reads. It’s always a pleasure to connect with creative minds.
The poems are full of emotions… I’m feeling very lucky to have you as a connection…
“Thus are we ushered
Gently into this world
And then challenged
To find
Our way home again
With our hearts open,
To where heaven knows
There are pearls awaiting.”
— beautiful lines Scott.
You are an awesome personality. We are lucky to benefit from your knowledge and wisdom.
Thank you, Scott Hastie. I spent some time on your website last night. I couldn’t wait till the weekend. Absolute lovely reads.
Lovely, thought provoking work
Scott, you should release a free poem every so often on LinkedIn and tag your new connections with a link to your website. This will help increase your traffic… Great writing deserves a great audience my friend, keep up the great work…
I just read your Recent Writing page and, at the risk of sounding like some weird stalker, I had to let you know how it made me feel.I lost my soulmate five years ago and as I read your words, I had tears rolling down my cheeks but I was smiling too.
I am renowned for my heart of stone so you can imagine how shocked I was! In all seriousness though, you are the first poet to actually resonate deep enough to evoke a spontaneous emotional reaction of that depth and it’s shaken me up a little. (I probably do sound like a stalker now don’t I?)
I will most definitely be getting your books when I visit the poetry library next week.
Hi Scott.
What a wonderful warm site.
Your poem is very reflective and inspiring. The short lines and sentences enhance your straightforward thinking behind the writing. Definitely up my alleyway…. A tad long for me though, for a poem…
So nice to make your acquaintance. Looking forward to reading more of your poetry and interacting.
Loved your blog, artwork and photos. A traveler myself, in my legs, my heart and my head.
Have a restful evening.
Susan.
I have had a read of some of your poems and they are delicate yet powerful.
Thanks Sir Scott for a wonderful piece here….You really inclined my creative accent. Would love to share some of my works with you to read.
Just read some of the poems. Feels like I can read them for hours and not get tired. Soul of Rilke, Rumi, Gibran and our very own Tagore comes forth from your verse, Scott.
Your poetry in this special collection was given to you by a higher force!! I honestly feel that.
You have very nice website and collections of your life work.
I read a couple of your poems and am in awe with them. I also loved the artworks for how everyday things could be captured with a totally different vibe.
Your poetry is calming and serene. I very much enjoyed reading the latest ones. Thank you for sharing.
Your poems truly are amazing! I was happy when your blog opened without a hiccup.
Thank you also for allowing me to share your messages and books, they are always a good ingredient for the Ezine or blogs. You have written and read quite some books! It is amazing that a historian is such an amazing poet too! Historians write stories once in a while, never heard one writing poetry. It is quite something!
Its an honour to have you in Agnishatdal. Thank you for becoming a part of it.
Gone through some of your stuff.. Great pieces of art I must confess…
This is beautiful.
Your words calm my heart.
Love this
Keep up the good work
Truly demonstrative representations of the essence of the Scott Hastie story. When I first came across Scott’s poetic works, I sat up at attention to something that I had craved for, aspired to, longed to be inspired by… Yet felt had long been lost to the literary world.
I have struggled at times to find just the right words to describe the reader’s experience while deeply engaging in Scott Hastie’s countless works of enduring tender, graceful, spiritual, and healing words. I always feel a great sense of nurturing through this poet’s gentle voice, the tone of which is not only read, but absorbed deeply into one’s own spiritual and physical being.
Never have I had a sense of disappointment nor an experience that lacked meaning, when engaging in the writings of Scott Hastie. The heartbeat leaps to a greater sense of rhythm and anticipation with each new piece, so generously polished. There is a gracious promise of hope and beauty in every line, carefully yet naturally sculpted in best practice and presentation. Time and time again, whispers of enlightenment resonate within me, long after each reading.
There aren’t enough words to express how deeply I treasure the Scott Hastie reading experience; deeply personal, both in its tone and sense of rejuvenating release, so often delivering renewed, eagerly anticipated perspective, as well as nuggets of self-realization. For us all, some sense of personal hope and inspiration is so critical these days and all those who can be forgiven for assuming that contemporary poetry and prose lacks these substantive essentials have obviously never read Scott Hastie. The written word remains a powerful essential in our lives. Never more so than in the poetry of Scott Hastie that delivers answers to our deepest prayers, time and time again.
“Remember that glorious
Moonlit swim?
Or the time, one pungent
And luminous
Late summers afternoon,
We ran so freely
Across the broad slope
Of the farmer’s
Newly harvested field,
Like wild horses forever.
We claimed those moments
For ourselves, didn’t we?…”
Scott, we both share the spirit and infinity of loving nature and the tremendous goodness that guides the essence of our being through life and all that is should be. This particular segment of your works shared here touched me deeply and it embodies all that I was raised to maintain so close to my heart and soul. If one cannot recognize and appreciate those truly significant moments in their lives, where is a life fully in the living? So marvellous, Scott. You have such a powerful connection to life.
Scott, in reading the foregoing, I find myself breathless in the profound message of light and living that you forge through every single written work. These are the most tangible of written expressions stripped of any gloss in the confluence of light and ethereal being. One cannot but marvel at the potential derivatives spawned from such light.
I/we are gifted to have embraced your written expression for all these years and any and all life remaining. I am humbled by your presence, your friendship, and your exquisite ability to do as you seek with your words; bringing each word, phrase and ingratiating line in verse from its inception to your/our final discovery.
You are touched by divine grace that was indeed truly meant to possess your heart and soul and in turn, touch our own life experience in ways never imagined possible. Light, your light, is a truly powerful transference of energy and enlightenment that serves the most humble essence and core of life, our lives, in an undeniably altruistic manner.
Godspeed.
Scott, dear friend, I have read and responded here several times. Nonetheless, in summation, I feel as though I have just engaged in the resonating beauty of life!
If we could only gather a collective anthology of your sense and sensibilities, your vision and truth, a cover-bound aggregate of your lasting words, therein rests the soul of a prophet, a teacher, a soothsayer of forecast and promise, and finally, your living legacy, land countless many of those treasured publications on the desk of every student of all levels, and all human beings in kind, urging their engagement with all due measure, what a very different world it would be. I hear your healing voice resound with every word, Scott.
Rejoice in the gift of being alive and with our interconnectedness with others.
Our true joys along the way can absorb the melancholy that surely will come.