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Month: December 2019

Nature…

Seven Seconds

31 Dec 201930 Sep 2019
A leaf separates from a twig on a tree tumbling for seven seconds on a journey to the ground.   For seven seconds a pedestrian  crosses a busy intersection before…
Nature

Winter at the Lake

30 Dec 201930 Sep 2019
  Winter at the Lake - artwork by Neil Berkowitz   Neil Berkowitz is a photographic artist and printmaker living in Seattle, Washington. His current work layers multiple iPhone photographic…
Nature…

Think of the Trees

29 Dec 201930 Sep 2019
I wonder have you ever thought about a tree? the roots that travel deep into the dirt holding secrets the trunk that stands firm keeping it safe when the wind…
Nature

The Hemlocks

28 Dec 201930 Sep 2019
I wait all day to see the magic of early evening light stream through the forest gather on hemlock needles in small, radiant pearls.   So different from the day’s…
Nature…

Choir 

27 Dec 201930 Sep 2019
Choir  First appeared in Survival: Trees, Tides, Song - 2019, Finishing Line Press   I sing in a Forrest Choir. It’s me and the trees. Tall slim trunks standing in…
Nature

And the Trees Dance

26 Dec 201930 Sep 2019
The forest breathes into the silences and the sounds ...the bellows of the gods   Life breathing in ...waiting...resting...replenishing… in the peace of nature...the infinite now   This deep inhale...the…
Nature…

Tree Bark Square 

24 Dec 201930 Sep 2019
Tree Bark Square - Photo by Roger Camp.  Roger Camp is the author of three photography books including the award-winning Butterflies in Flight, Thames & Hudson, 2002 and Heat, Charta, Milano,…
Nature…

Huon Pine

22 Dec 201930 Sep 2019
A lock of enchantment, the Huon Pine Forest thrives, its golden wood now left untouched by the forest’s logging boys, Casanovas of money, the ones who once were allowed to…
Nature

OLD SYCAMORE

20 Dec 201930 Sep 2019
The tree enchants the riverbank, so wide, gnarled and hollow, its skin beneath the shedding bark a mottled map, an abstract painter’s canvas, its limbs and branches turning white as…
Nature…

Michigan Trees

18 Dec 201930 Sep 2019
  Photos by Elizabeth Paxson   Elizabeth Paxson is a poet, writer and visual artist, and graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and Minneapolis College of Art. She resides in…
Nature…

Earth’s Magnetic North Pole

17 Dec 201911 Nov 2019
Erasure poem based on “Earth’s Magnetic North Pole Has Officially Moved”.  Trevor Nace. Forbes. February 5, 2019. - Julie Martin A poet and a public school teacher, Julie Martin lives…
Nature

We are all the leaves of one tree …

16 Dec 201930 Sep 2019
Laying, I among the tree litter, feeling the moist earth beneath me. Rain lightly blessing my face, my shoulders, my brown brittle body is drenched in life’s abundance. Basking in…
Nature…

Digital Age Pobiz

14 Dec 201930 Sep 2019
Thanks to Chestnut Review’s debut   I’ve been writing and submitting for publication maybe a decade plus or minus                        during which time manual process has d/ evolved from printing paper…
Nature

Smile

13 Dec 20198 Nov 2019
- Photograph by Jerome Berglund Jerome Berglund graduated summa cum laude from the cinema-television production program at the University of Southern California, and has spent much of his career working…
Nature

Super-Sweet Peach

12 Dec 201930 Sep 2019
Blossoms in May, fruiting in June.   You shade the backyard. You flirt with the squirrels. You nourish the groundhogs.   Shrouded in netting, yet still you are pillaged, and…
Achene…

Colorado

11 Dec 201918 Dec 2019
Holy Southwestern Eternity, painted red Where as kids we split two hemispheres. A river Through the canyons, and to our left: The cold banks of the beginning (before our birth,…
Nature…

Long Sleep

10 Dec 201930 Sep 2019
Tangerine and blood orange maples exhort radiance against a dark doze of furred pines clad in verdant mink needles, awaiting first snow.   Trees sing hallelujah harmonies in lemon soprano…
Nature…

Ode to a Tree Trunk

9 Dec 20198 Nov 2019
Out of pine-crusted hill, where wild turkeys once galumphed from tree branch to tree branch, you towered over the cabin. Maybe that’s why they picked you, the beetles. With sleek,…
Nature

Tree at Crematorium III

8 Dec 201930 Sep 2019
Black pit charred and split open at the birch's Base   parted like plundered legs left open broken black.   The land stripped once of all green grows again green.…
Nature…

Spring in the Forest Near Stanley

6 Dec 201930 Sep 2019
Sapling roots knuckle the earth as green shoots summon visions fresh buds line raw creeks. Water spirits nurture torrents of white crescendos flooding down from alpine heights.   Loggers rapped…
Nature…

Young Blues

4 Dec 201930 Sep 2019
You share your life on wings of scent, unadulterated tree breathing in the night, allow me a bed close by in grass.   Bless your branches, let them untangle my…
Nature…

Fall Splendor

3 Dec 201923 Nov 2019
-Tisha Mendes Tisha Mendes is an avid traveler and has traveled to many parts of the world with her family. She has experienced the fury of storms in the Mediterranean,…
Nature

Refuge Of Trees

2 Dec 20194 Dec 2019
Protecting from the sun and heat   trees spread arms   high and wide over me   and sing   softly, gently, whispering  – I can sleep in peace. On the prairie   Precious trees,  …

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