The Poet Shack

The Poet Shack is Where Believer Poet Ahrend Walters Lives

Believer Poet Ahrend Walters lives in a simple building he has dubbed his "Poet Shack". It is here on this small plot of land where he lives simply, in the country surrounded by nature and his numerous animals, and where he writes many of his poems.

Nature, animals, and indeed all of God's creation, are very dear to Ahrend Walters. He draws inspiration from this place near Wiggins, Mississippi. He can commune with God and he delights in the trees, the small creek that babbles nearby, and in the splash of daily sunlight and the heavenly curtain of stars.

Ahrend Walters and his Poet Shack

Ahrend Walters is a young man and a poet with an incredible gift and a strong faith. He will tell anyone who listens that God has called him to a life dedicated to Jesus Christ and that his gift for writing is to point to the perfection that can only be achieved in Christ. His writing is not his only gift. He is also a musician, singer and painter and he uses all of his gifts for the purpose he believes he has been called. But it is specifically through his poetry that he expresses the beauty and harmony of life. This he finds not only in the good, but also in the struggle. He is not so naīve as to believe that all things are sweet and wonderful. But all things are created by a loving God and therefore all things are used for a universal goodness.

(excerpt from Believer Poet: The Mission and Early Life of Ahrend Walters by Tom Gilbert.
More about Believer Poet: The Mission and Early Life of Ahrend Walters here

Dancing Grace is an original poem by Ahrend Walters describing his Poet Shack.

Ahrend painting his poet shack

Dancing Grace
By: Ahrend R. Walters

A leaking shower was to sour
Then my neighbor gave his labor
At his place I saw the grace
My worn shoes beneath a bruise

When I was there the window's flared
Shined a light at the night
While we gazed I was amazed
The purest grace the one we faced a wall of my shack
afterwards we yakked
while propped on his truck
were covered in a muck

from my shack below
it was a soothing glow
at the dance it shared
as down the hill we stared

Muddy Feet is an original poem by Ahrend Walters about living at his Poet Shack and the joy of a primitive shower after working on his land.

Ahrend painting his animals pen

Muddy Feet
By: Ahrend R. Walters
September 4, 2007

Tonight I took my shower
I found my breath taken away
it felt so good it felt so good
Rinsed from my body
Out in these woods
Where yet is not a sink
I find the blessings
At the rough times under a water hose
at that refreshing time
though at there I froze
was the filth and grime
where live my critter friends
nor a toilet nor a shower
that out Lord sends
they rest in the hour

Gi Food ant is an original poem by Ahrend Walters he wrote while contemplating little to eat, but enough to get by. There's more if you read between the lines.

Not a lot, but enough to eat

Gi Food ant
By: Ahrend R. Walters

A loaf of bread some milk and spread
Too some cheese while sugars teased

Left for home where creatures roamed
Christ our Lord the perfect chord

He said believe and you'll receive
I am there when seems unfair

If you'll give at where you live
There I'm be to set you free I bought from a store
I a poet poor

I heard the mighty king
the song the birds sing

in times of the distress
I will truly bless

a prayer to me above
I the hope and love

More Original Poems by Ahrend Walters

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