50 | Rosemerry Trommer | Hallelujah Anyway: Poetry and Praise in the Key of Grief
“Part of what it means to be a poet right now is to know that we are surrounded by poems, that we live poems, that we are a poem, living. ”
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What does it mean to be a poet in these times of horror and wonder, beauty and despair? For Rosemerry, poetry is both bridge and practice: it joins the inner and outer worlds, invites us to stay present to what is, lets the world shape us, and offers something honest, authentic, and beautiful in return.
She describes poetry as an apprenticeship to mystery and an opening into a life of presence and praise. “One way to deal with the ache of the world,” she reminds us, “is with beauty.” In this conversation, Rosemerry shares poems written with a profound depth of heart, verses that meet sorrow with beauty and honour the glimmers of grace that surround us each day.
Together we explore poetry as a radical form of responsivity: how it expands the self, supports the ongoing process of true-ing, and allows us to be guided by wonder. Poetry becomes a passageway into living more fully, an opening to the immensity of life, and a way of moving through the world as if every moment is an invitation to say, Hallelujah Anyway.
Find Thematic Show Notes Below
Connect with Rosemerry:
Website
Daily poetry blog: A Hundred Falling Veils
Daily poetry app for your phone: The Poetic Path
Podcast on creative process: Emerging Form
Newest Books: The Unfolding & All the Honey
TEDx: The Art of Changing Metaphors
Poetry album Risking Love
Connect with WHR:
WHR Instagram
Coyotei Counsel Instagram
Hearthwoven Substack
Tei’s Instagram
Email - whr.link@gmail.com
Thematic Show Notes
Poetry as Presence and Bridge:
Living as if the world is already a poem, every moment an invitation to wonder
Poetry as a meeting place of inner and outer realities
“Even the things we want to say no to have a place, and there is relief in not resisting them.”
Beauty Amid Grief:
Beauty as a way to meet the world’s ache without turning away
“Unless I am open to really feeling the despair, I will not be available to feel the joy.”
The smallest glimpse of beauty as a counterweight to sorrow
Apprenticeship to Mystery:
Writing not what we know, but what we are willing to discover
“Each time I meet a blank page, there is the invitation to go beyond what I think I knew.”
Thriving in unknowing and letting the poem teach the poet
Paradox, Peace, and Truing:
Poems love tension and paradox; they mirror the complexity of being alive
Peace as simplicity, not certainty
Trusting the body’s quiet oracular capacities to sense what is true
The Revolutionary Heart of Art:
Poetry as a practice of radical belonging and responsivity
“How do we write into, dream into, live into, the life we most long for?”
Staying “steadfast in the trembling,” allowing art to keep us tender and awake