Literary Owl Nature Writer A Hidden Sanctuary By Eidan Miana 22 Jan 202323 Jan 2023 Quiet branches crack and crumble as I gently venture Verdant arms embrace me, swaying me into its trance The calm hum of life fills the air Rich and playful, the…
Featured Poet All For What – by Featured Poet Alice B. Fogel 21 Jan 202312 Jan 2023 At last at the timeless summit where it seems possible to behold all enormities—windblown distances, skybound heights—I see this lit and stunning, gem-bright fly. It is a lone piece of…
Featured Poet… The Turning by Featured Poet Alice B. Fogel 6 Jan 20232 Jan 2023 (from poems on the Appalachian Trail) Even while the spruce grows held upright between gravity and heaven it twirls upon its axis, a core that changes year by year, though…
Nature Poetry of the Wild Flowers 28 Dec 202227 Dec 2022 Theme: Wildflowers POETRY Wildflowers are flowers that grow freely in the wild. Wildflowers grow in forests, fields, parks, and unusual places like floating bogs and sidewalk cracks. If a wildflower…
Featured Poet Shadow by Featured Poet Alice B. Fogel 23 Dec 202223 Dec 2022 (from poems on the Appalachian Trail) If there is some divine shadow flung over every worldly thing, that could be a reason for rhyming cirrus with feathers, wind with wings,…
Nature The Melody of Winter by Eidan Miana 21 Dec 202223 Jan 2023 The symphony of the city screams out of tune, unpleasant and erratic. The ruckus of piercing horns, hissing bells, and chaotic conversations pound my ears relentlessly. Screens harass my eyes…
Nature In a concrete abyss 20 Dec 202216 Dec 2022 The sounds of crickets echoed, the warm summer flew away in a whirlwind, the whistling of a burning core rushes into the house where the little princess is sleeping. There…
Nature Dances with Camphor 18 Dec 202216 Dec 2022 When spring arrives in Florida, no one safely traverses our back patio. Our camphor tree cinnamomum camphora, which provides plenteous shade from Florida’s searing summer wrath, nevertheless, turns on us.…
Nature Into The Countryside 17 Dec 202216 Dec 2022 I see trees and they look menacing, like witch fingers,I see birds in the sky and they fly where they wish,I see clouds, they shape into whatever concept upon my…
Plant Your Words Natural Law (Fig Leaf) 16 Dec 202211 Dec 2022 Emulated from a sweet tooth long ago The fig leaf is a prudent prophetic piece of the past A transcendental transitory Mitigating the pressures between our psyches This boiling bowl…
Plant Your Words Plant Your Words 15 Dec 202211 Dec 2022 Plant your words here on this page,on your lipsin the garden of your mind where thoughts blossomgrow in the dappled shadows,the moist earth of tomorrow. Seed life…
Plant Your Words Mono No Aware 14 Dec 20229 Dec 2022 Photograph by Talitha May Attuned to the sensory richness of the everyday, my photography invites exploring folds, textures, light and shadow. Talitha May is a researcher and artist who lives…
Plant Your Words RISE UP GERANIUM WORD-GEMS(Pelargoniums) 13 Dec 202227 Nov 2022 My geraniums cry outfor water to quench their thirstlike my words waitin the sanctuary of my mind,ready to sprout on the blank page,once a pinch of the pencilor a snip…
Plant Your Words Choice of Tree 12 Dec 202227 Nov 2022 She, the once tortured orchard tender,needs more than saplings, morethan a sudden wet wellspring, morethan pills shaped like fat seeds and morethan thin fruit bark that is softto the frost…
Plant Your Words Climate Changing tanka 11 Dec 202227 Nov 2022 Poem by Gerard Sarnat Gerard Sarnat has been nominated for the pending 2022 Science Fiction Poetry Association Dwarf Star Award, won San Francisco Poetry’s 2020 Contest, the Poetry in the…
Nature Sienna 10 Dec 20228 Dec 2022 The ground accepts the poem—how organic matter moveslike elegies personified,how minerals breaklinesto build cadence,how water runs like imageryto show what isand what isn’t,how air demands feelingthe breathof living and dead…
Nature With Apologies to Mary Oliver 9 Dec 20228 Dec 2022 Forgive me —Every year, the wild yellow rosebush outside my parents’ houseRiots and rebels with glorious abandonAnd every year,I’m too busy burning alive to notice it doing the same I…
Nature my lips touch 8 Dec 20227 Dec 2022 you stirred into me –a heaping teaspoonof Nestle Quikin a glass of cold milk. i made you a nightshirt of kissesso when you sleepmy lips touch your body like the…
Nature No Apologies 7 Dec 2022 Almost 40 years I have been here andthinking about the number ofapologies that I have spoken makesme queasy. I have begun so manysentences with one that demeans theirpurpose, to lighten…
Nature Candid 6 Dec 20226 Dec 2022 I open as a blazing starTiptoed yet sturdyMy arms, waxed, electrifiedSending up spires of purpleWith orbits of ghostly glintsBlack veined, silk threaded. Dark green lances burst forthFrom within my hips…
Nature After September 5 Dec 2022 I thought I had it downwith the poppies I planted,the neat rows of corn.I woke up dreaming it was in my grasp:I could nail you, proverbial, like a loose board;have…
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