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Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Now Hear Song

2 Jun 202329 May 2023
Walking solo as weed feelings grow, scraggly; wild in the verges. Seeking solace. Wanting rain. A soothing soak turns from bones to feathers the burden of mourning. Spiky and smooth,…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Prickly Pear

1 Jun 202323 May 2023
Repurposed wire contains them - two misshapen hearts beating purple fruit. Thick-skinned lovers lean as one Rooted. Trapped. Obsessed with the songful beat of warbler wings and the rising perfume…
Nature

The Tiburon Mariposa Lily

31 May 202326 May 2023
only grows on the thin serpentine soils that coat the slopes of Ring Mountain Preserve in Tiburon, California. Serpentinite, gray-green California state rock, so beautiful, so poisonous to life that…
Nature

Bog

30 May 202326 May 2023
A wise woman told me that mixing air and water, intellect and emotion, yields fierce compassion. My lungs, thick with sobs do not believe. Water forces itself everywhere, seeping into…
Nature

Wildflower Ramble

29 May 202326 May 2023
Our footsteps bruise a dark trail through foxtails, poppies, sky lupine. Here among greasewood, homesteads melt back to fern. A sinking oak rots into damp miner's lettuce. Iron nails rust…
Nature

Matchless

28 May 202326 May 2023
This morning trumpet blasts its brassy two tone chartreuse and Merlot splashed lips in my face. She’s a root-bound strumpe in a bottle-blue vase swaying in accompaniment to a balmy…
Nature

Who May Wish To Adjust Their Contract Regarding Endings

27 May 202326 May 2023
(inspired by a photo by Kit Sibert) White dandelions in a field, a sudden field. Overnight, an entire company of dream-addled recruits has seeped and flowed from the distant, dark,…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Roadside Bouquet

26 May 20234 May 2023
...this roadside bouquet quietly smiling at the people hurrying on their way hither and yon. These flowers thankfully protected by the guard rail that the city thoughtfully put in to--perhaps--guard…
Nature

Drift

25 May 202320 May 2023
The canyon does not need my help: seasons cycle, the years tally, the moon, never once thinking of me, swells and recedes, full to sliver, and a few times every…
Nature

Wildflowers of Northern Winter

24 May 202320 May 2023
In December, small birds blossom from treetops at dawn; the sun blooms like a dinnerplate dahlia, gold at its center and pink at the tips of its reach. Clumps of…
Nature

Rudbeckia

23 May 202320 May 2023
Don’t call me black-eyed Susan.I am Rudbeckia hirta.Don’t make me seem triviallike a frilly child in a yellow smockskipping across a meadow.I tell you I am lovelierand more significant than…
Nature

Daisy, Daisy, Daisy

22 May 202318 May 2023
She blossoms like a daisy,shouldering her way throughthe thick-bodied blades to bask her white petal armsin the sun. In summer’s furiousheat she does not shrink but thrives in blazing abundance.Watch…
Nature

Queen Anne’s Lace

21 May 202317 May 2023
In the field along the riverbanktwo empty white chairsface one another near the water pump,sunflowers alreadyscraggly and dried.I snap a stem of Queen Anne’s Lace,inhaling its late-summer scentas I twirl…
Nature

An Alpine Forget-Me-Not

20 May 202317 May 2023
In dormant form I rest under fiftyfeet of snow buffeted by howlingwinds high on the tundra of RockyMountain National Park beneathtowering peaks above 13,000 feet.Ever so gradually in April the…
Literary Owl Nature Writer

Glazed Maple Eyes – By Literary Owl Nature Writer, Eidan Miana

19 May 202317 May 2023
Oh, how I cherish your glazed maple eyes I dive in their sweet invitation Your temptation teasing my desire Wisely spoiling me Yet cautiously halting overindulgence How I envy for…
Nature

Mountain Thistles

19 May 202317 May 2023
The thistle is not earth’s most beautiful plant.Nor is the purple urchin of its blossom excusefor the ragged anger of its leaves and spines.But its roots spread into its motherlike…
Nature

Ode to the Wild Strawberry

18 May 202317 May 2023
Oh, yellow bloom atop stout stemwith five petals to turn intoripe, sweet berries. Oh, green,green leaf with ruffled edge,may spring pander to your heart,and April nourish your beautywith its cool…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

The Wine Cup on my Hood

17 May 20234 May 2023
Someone or something left me a gift todayA wine cup blossom on the hood of my car I looked around and there were no wine cups orOther flowers growing near…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Soft Landings

16 May 20233 May 2023
The earth was out past the snow now,mud laid bare in a winter melt.The thought of catching rabbits day after day is Fox’s reveriebut something catches at the thread.Odd tacks…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Wild Sunflowers

15 May 20234 May 2023
Sunny halos frame frank brown faces turnedeast to worship dawn’s fist rays,call to me, “Just look up...” Julie Sellers Julie A. Sellers is the author of the novel Ann of…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

The First Rose

14 May 20232 May 2023
Death surprised me in a burst of yellowdriving the edge of Cayuga Lake. The news wasn’t slow like tulipsslowly poking up through soil. No. Instantaneous blossoms appearedgolden against still slumbering…

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Poetry of the Wild Flowers – Jan 1, 2023

Wings – May 1, 2023 

Focus on the beauty of birds in flight, or the power of flight to inspire…

Wetlands – July 15, 2023

Observe ecology of wetlands, or the importance of wetlands to our environment…

Clouds – Sept. 1, 2023

Examine the different types of clouds, or the way clouds can create a mood…

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