Barrier Island Calm 

Dedicated To The Outer Banks North Carolina. Thank you.

For more than 30 years, these windswept islands have been my quiet church and patient teacher. Guided by surf, salt, and shifting sand, these poems gather small lessons from the tide—moments of stillness, healing, and the calm that comes when we listen to the sea.

If you have ever found a place to live or vacation that somehow called you back again and again, you will recognize the quiet pull of these pages.

always with love

Christina Gabsa

Click On The Mini Book To Get To Amazon! Let the power of the Sand, Water and Structure sweep you up.

  • Sit Back and Learn From The Olive Trees and The Flight Of The Bumblebees.

    Teachings of the Olive Trees and Bumblebees is a soft field guide for the heart—offering small, wild lessons about love, endurance, and wonder from the quiet teachers of the natural world.

  • Connect With Your Love Of Nature

    Green Little Sigh is a love letter to our connection with nature—whispering poems that teach you how to rest, heal, and begin again in the language of leaves and light.

  • Connect With All The Heartache and Love you have experienced and find your path.

    Persimmon Cowgirl is a wild-hearted hymn to becoming—a chance to change your path and grow stronger, where dust meets sweetness, longing meets freedom, and a woman learns herself by listening to the land.

  • A Nod To The Past.

    One With The Minnesota Pines is a pocket of home in poem form, a nod to growing up, to roots, and to the people who made me.

  • My Love Letter To The Outer Banks

    You go on vacation or move to a place that just makes you feel truly like you are home. This is your sanctuary, your church. For me it’s the Outer Banks NC and this book is my love letter to this magical place. I have been vacationing in this beautiful place for 30 years and this book of poetry Barrier Island Calm, is inspired by my many trips and gifts I brought back to my life.

What People Are Saying about Christina’s Writing

— AllPoetry

“Nature waltz in the ambience of its amazing allure in this collection...impressive inking threaded with vivid and palpable imagery... This exquisite beauty pulled me in instantly and held me.”

Green Little Sigh Poetry Published on AllPoetry.

— AllPoetry

“Your poetic style should collaborate with an artist who would depict your images and verses on canvas. Simply stunning work.”

Persimmon Cowgirl Poetry Published On AllPoetry

— Amazon Review

“Take your time and read through this work of art. Stories of real life mixed with themes of nature in free verse poetry. Perfect read for poetry lovers and those who are new to poetry.”

Teachings of The Olive Trees and Bumblebees. Debut Poetry Book Published On Amazon.

I am a free verse poet based in Frederick, Maryland, whose writing explores the quiet, powerful connection between humans and nature.

My work leans into the natural world—bunnies, fireflies, olive trees, and coyotes—not just as scenery but as secret carriers of emotional truth. I write in imagery and disguise, crafting poems that often seem like small fables or dreamlike snapshots, but underneath, they're intimate reckonings. A ride standing tall on a coyote’s back might really be my way of writing about facing anxiety. These poems never tell you everything directly—they hint, gesture, and leave space for the reader to feel their own reflection inside the lines.

Editorial Review

A whisper from the Wild: Christina Gabsa’s Green Little Sigh

Where It All Started…

Let the olive trees strengthen all the things that are broken in you, and the bumblebee heal your thoughts and ambitions. Poetry that transports you to the edges of your own life. Urging you to confront your doubts, fears, and desires. Poetry that reminds us that it is never too late to heal, to forgive, and to become whole.

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