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Month: April 2019

EARTH…

ODE TO SAND (Indiana Dunes)

29 Apr 2019
ODE TO SAND (Indiana Dunes) by Steve Brammell Henry Chandler Cowles, at the University of Chicago, developed a more formal concept of succession. Cowles studied vegetation development on the ever…
Nature…

Transition

27 Apr 2019
Photograph by Myron L. Pulier Myron L. Pulier is a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.
Nature in the Now

Black Pond Road, Cape Cod

24 Apr 2019
Photograph by John Greiner-Ferris I worked as a corporate photographer/writer for years. In 2007 I put the camera down and dedicated myself full-time to the theater: acting, writing plays, forming…
Nature…

Cultivating Joy

21 Apr 2019
Chocolate eggs sprout in the yard Armed with a whicker basket You’re on the hunt Tulips bloom in cascading colours Red speckled with black You pause In awe of a…
Nature…

I Know You

19 Apr 2019
- Austrie Martinez Austrie Martinez is an Air Force veteran and internationally published writer. Her work has been published in the Baltimore Fishbowl, Into the Void Magazine, UNBLOC Zine and…
Nature in the Now

Altar

17 Apr 2019
Photograph by Nathan Holloway Nathan Holloway is a poet, photographer, and composition instructor living in rural Arkansas and documenting the experience of being rural, queer, and southern. You can find…
Nature Photography…

Submissions Open!

16 Apr 2019
Send in your poetry or photography today!
Nature Photography

Fern

16 Apr 20195 Apr 2019
Fern - from the Nature Blues Series. Photograph by Libby Young. I am a photographer based in Cape Town, South Africa. I am working on a series of botanical and…
Nature…

Samara

15 Apr 2019
- Julie Martin A poet and a public school teacher, Julie Martin lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota with her husband and two teenage sons. Her poetry has appeared in Alpha…
Nature Poetry

Hushed Morning

14 Apr 201912 Apr 2019
The sun struggles to stand up tall, above the horizon. The blue sky of morning drags behind the yellow rays, Brushes away the purples of night. Birds chirp, eagerly, beyond…
Nature

Seedlings

12 Apr 201911 Apr 2019
The soft earth below my toes gleans the soil to swaddle these tiny seeds... readying their sprouts to rise towards sunup... that magnificent moment rarely witnessed... where emptiness becomes growth where…
Nature…

Color by Letters

12 Apr 2019
for T.H.   Every day Trevor posts a new painting on Facebook, his pace matching the Vermont winter’s tenacity of days following snow that follow nights following snow.   This morning, above…
Nature

Submissions Open, April 15!

11 Apr 2019
Nature Poetry

Going

10 Apr 20195 Apr 2019
I think sometimes in silence are sweet tales because what else am I? lying leaves, baring trees springing wintered truth that haunts in the shadows of summer Blindly, butterfly-searching youth…
Nature…

Seasons of Life

9 Apr 2019
Photograph by Sofia Martimianakis Sofia Martimianakis is an avid hiker, writer and photographer based in Toronto. She completed her undergraduate degree in Literary Studies at the University of Toronto and…
Nature

Grieving Through Nature By Carol Flake Chapman

8 Apr 20198 Apr 2019
During the first few terrible weeks after my husband died in a kayaking accident on a wild river in Guatemala, I wondered why something so momentous and truly awful could…
Nature Poetry

Robed In Vines

7 Apr 20195 Apr 2019
There were young Trees— reaching with fruitless branches into dreamless stew — wishing they had never welcomed the stranger vines, which creep toward their tips, filching the clean air of…
Nature…

Zack in April

7 Apr 2019
  - Maureen O'Brien Maureen O'Brien teaches Creative Writing to inspiring and amazing teens.
Nature Poetry

Bulbs

6 Apr 20195 Apr 2019
Small seeds within a face, growing through flesh like saplings bursting from soil. A lilac from a nose – purple rooted in cartilage – A daffodil sprouts from a forehead…
Nature

New Global Art and Poetry Initiative for Youth!

6 Apr 2019
Nature Poetry

Uneven and Inclined

5 Apr 2019
I used to be the number Nine (uneven orbit, and inclined). But over time, so much had changed. To redefine, left me estranged. A core of rock, and crust of…
Nature Poetry

Ode against a dying tree

5 Apr 2019
See the breath, cold tree, flowing out from near to far Smoky-stop, I don’t know why this breath disperses, pooling leaves turn gray Even young blind nature with all its…
Nature in the Now

Flight of Fancy

5 Apr 2019
- Terry Bodine A graduate of the College of William & Mary, Terry Hall Bodine works as housing coordinator at University of Lynchburg. Recent publication credits include Roanoke Review, Scintilla,…
Nature Poetry

The Waterfall

4 Apr 201925 Mar 2019
The well-worn trail follows the river through the fern-covered forest floor amongst great trees with greater canopies. The steady roar of water prompts the hiker to persevere. Feet compress soil…
Nature in the Now

seduction of winter’s lover by spring’s first warmth

4 Apr 2019
- LQ McDonald III LQ reads everything he can get his hands on, writes everything he can wrap his heart around, and generally enjoy words in all their whimsy. When…
Nature Photography

Dune

3 Apr 201925 Mar 2019
  Photograph by Cassandra Alfred. A native of Rockland County, N.Y., Cassandra works as a Registered Nurse. Despite this career choice, Cassandra has a passion for the arts. With the…
Nature in the Now

The Cubit of Necessity

3 Apr 2019
It would be unnecessary To document the Blue-jay Coursing from branch to fragile branch In the biblical signature of wind. But I’m writing this poem For you, whether you read…

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