My Whitman poetic study was carried out on two different walks. As the introduction to the grasslands, the first visual walk on the Hempstead plains on Long Island was in late September 2014. The second walk was one year later in late August 2015.  The first visual palette of the grasslands incubated across the Atlantic, and was painted in my studio in Spain in October 2014.  The tactile walk inspired not only a new palette but a long group of poems that was revealed in September 2015 back in Spain. The poetry replay is based on Walt Whitman's long poem ‘Leaves of Grass.” It was only after publishing his own essay, “NATURE” it was Ralph Waldo Emerson who acknowledged Whitman's uniqueness and close connection with the essence of the land praising the long poem as an eloquent example of his philosophical ideas portrayed in poetic verse.  I found that the visual walk inspired poems based more on my emotional encounter with Whitman in a location related to his poetry.  Both walks were located in the grassland preserve on Long Island and the poet himself wrote about his walking journey across Long Island.  During the tactile walk, I saw a lonely stalk of a bushy native prairie grass blowing in the breeze.  It reminded me of Whitman's beard and his break from traditional poetic meter at that time in 1850.