Nature… A Tiny Beast 17 Jul 202029 Jun 2020 I am seduced bya tiny warrioralso a seed sower and hunter.I spy it daily in the maple.Observe its quick slip tongue,keen perch, dashing retreatSilently,swift, feathered bodyflashes irresistible color.I want to…
Nature… Humming with the Hive 17 Jul 20204 Jul 2020 For Annelies At 1pm on Saturday, we don our white bee suits me in a hip length jacket and Annelies, my 82 year old spirit-mom decked out in full…
Nature Poetry… A Life in a Time 16 Jul 202029 Jun 2020 Cut through the tree, passed the drying bark, through the sap. White wood, the colour of ivory. Carved a question in black, burned into the frictionless surface, like water, moving…
Nature… Photo Series: Bee-Fly Diving In, Painted Lady, Sunflower 3 16 Jul 202029 Jun 2020 Bee-Fly Diving InPainted LadySunflower 3 Photographs by Martha Nance Martha Nance is a physician in Minnesota who is very happy to see colorful flowers and their colorful friends after long…
Nature… Pas de Deux 16 Jul 20204 Jul 2020 her partner arches his back (Étendre) tap-tapping around her fanning his obsidian wings (Glisser) a song sparrow center stage trills m’lady…
Nature… The December Bee 15 Jul 202025 Jul 2020 flies around my kitchenflirts with the heat of the range,finds neither shrub nor flowering vine:I knead the bread,stir the soup,avoid the brush of his wings,until my daughter grabsa cup, napkin,scoops…
Nature What Exactly are You? 15 Jul 202029 Jun 2020 Winged creatures, So fragile, So powerful. Flitting with purpose. A welcomed dust. A dust to bring forth life. If you aren’t a help, What exactly are you? That is the…
Nature… Key Changes and “Bee and Wee Ladybug” 15 Jul 202030 Jun 2020 Left ear for facts, right ear for creative fancy, it is said. At the edge of the woodland are balsam and clover, sage and lavender, and ginger-coloured bees who buzz…
Nature Poetry… May Hedgerows 14 Jul 20206 Jul 2020 rapeseed dusks the air soft-grainy-sweet to a sneeze goes up past the swallows to the inking sky its headache yellow fields the last to resist the sink of the sun…
Nature Poetry… Penstemon Honey 14 Jul 202029 Jun 2020 Snowdrops near Nod to peony And waterfall buttercups - Born again After novae, After nebulae, After black holes, Blossoming In mountain galaxies. A hint of pepper’s sting, A feathery touch…
Nature… Foxglove 14 Jul 202028 Jun 2020 I could have been a bee in a paradisiacal swoonentranced by a foxglove, the way it stoodso tall, so faintly swaying arrhythmicallyin the wind and never breaking,its hundred tiny flowerets,…
Nature… Tomato Flower Bee Flying 13 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 "Tomato Flower Bee Flying" Photograph by Jamie Chew Jamie Chew lives in Pittsburgh with her husband, two kids, a dog and a cat.
Nature… Honey Bee 13 Jul 202030 Jun 2020 -Carolyn Adams Carolyn Adams’ art has been published in Soul by Southwest, Apeiron Review, Wilderness House Literary Review, Jenny, and Change Seven Magazine, among others. Select pieces of her collage…
Nature… Warbler 13 Jul 20204 Jul 2020 Most poems are not read, they are encountered, greeted, and wondered at. They are inhaled. They are floated upon. They are smooth and round in your palm. They are just…
Nature Poetry… The Butterfly Garden of Key West 12 Jul 202029 Jun 2020 When flighty limbs and leaves—extending Fronds brush the ocean sand—where Banana manes ripple colors of rainbow Coral, unfurling winds, flapping with salt Called the blue conch flag of Key West.…
Nature… The Nest 12 Jul 202028 Jun 2020 Watch summers’ wasps lick strips of our outdoor rockers,peeling bits to spitinto pulp, spunround several raspberry stems.Shape of a moldy, greygrapefruit, bobbingin battering wind,amidst tough shrubs against the shoreline.What are…
Nature… Apis Mellafera 12 Jul 202030 Jun 2020 It buzzes past, then settles on a coneflower, and as the flower sways, your brain says bee. Or perhaps you’re a bit of an apiarist and, out of all the…
Nature Photography… Honeybee and House Finch 11 Jul 202029 Jun 2020 Outside my window, a honeybee and house finch sip water from the birdbath Respectfully indifferent to their differences Wings of skeletal sheet and hamuli, wings of feather and bone We…
Nature… A March Morning 11 Jul 202013 Jul 2020 I fill the winter feeder with sunflower seeds, corn, orange rind --- then watch from the window A Cardinal is the first to come; I see his masked face in…
Nature… Quiet 11 Jul 202030 Jun 2020 -Susan Rancourt Susan’s poetic themes are about the natural world, animals, historical poems, and childhood experiences. Filled with intense imagery, her poems have been described as, “marvelous and exquisitely evocative”.…
Nature Poetry… Dancing on the Wind 10 Jul 202029 Jun 2020 Wings flutter bits of color dancing on the wind I see and rejoice: life is here, energy and beauty dancing on the wind. Sharing from one blossom to another, living…
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