Plant Your Words Harvested Words 31 Oct 202220 Oct 2022 I marvel at the words, how they lay across the page in tended rows or sound when spoken, not simply read, as wind fetching across a meadow of wildflowers. Not…
Nature… Tulip Poplars 30 Oct 202220 Oct 2022 He who marveled at the tulip poplars, growing so abundant, Admonished a friend who didn’t know The tulip poplar in their own yard, the only tree In their sea of…
Nature… PERFECTION IS ILLUSION 29 Oct 20228 Apr 2023 Give me the sunburned flower,not the unwrinkled beauty. Let reality wash the colorfrom roses so I can cradlethem like seeds in their infancy. Give beauty no eyes but feelingcaught in…
Plant Your Words A Douglas Fir Lesson 28 Oct 202220 Oct 2022 every time they visit, we pilgrimage this homemade trail the oldest asks, are we going to see your tree? the youngest wants to find if he has one as we…
Nature Canoe me into the deep waters 27 Oct 202226 Oct 2022 rain me to the ground,light breeze me alongthe lips of river’s currents,thunderstorm me lighteningmy bones to stars,serenade me with sweet cornsalty butter drippingfrom my mouth.Succulent summer wrapsweet blueberry armsaround me;tickle…
Plant Your Words Adagio with Drums 26 Oct 202218 Oct 2022 Pine limbs, oak limbs divvy up shafts of sunlight as rain sifts straight-lined, windless. Grass grows slick. As if ice-cased, bamboo shimmers in glissando. Leaves blaze. Each drop that clings…
Plant Your Words After the Gale 25 Oct 202221 Oct 2022 Ivory spines disguise the oaks’ south sides, slivers of sunshine lightening their rough trunks. What furrowed pallor, what dignity: spires anchored to all others underneath, delight clad in the plucked…
Nature aging 24 Oct 202225 Oct 2022 one dayperhapsi’ll be as wise as rosesallowing my body toshimmer toward morning sunbowing towarddeath [for isn’t sunrise about the deathof night] each foldunfolding unabashedjoys sorrowsrevealed no wastingtime onembarrassment each browning…
Plant Your Words Yuccastarburst 23 Oct 202218 Oct 2022 Photograph by Benjamin Green Benjamin Green is the author of eleven books including The Sound of Fish Dreaming. At the age of sixty-six he hopes his new work articulates a…
Plant Your Words The Iris Advisory 22 Oct 202218 Oct 2022 Put a joy thought Like a bouquet of store bought Purple Dutch irises In between the crevices Of your forlorn heart Do it with intention Not as an afterthought Poem…
Nature… Faces of Fortune 21 Oct 202218 Oct 2022 Photographs by Lynne Goldsmith Lynne's nature poems have been featured in Tiny Seed Literary Journal. She also loves taking nature photos. She's been a Royal Dragonfly Award Winner and Purple…
Nature Oceans Rising 20 Oct 202216 Oct 2022 The cars sped by at eighty where the surfers entered the water, paddling out between cars. No driving home on this day. Another wave swamped Route 1. I cut over…
Plant Your Words Polka-Dot Wasp Moth 19 Oct 202229 Sep 2022 Grass as thick as hair runs the length of the east fence. Under the half-dug oleander, your shining black setae runs over spots on orange skin. You are born and…
Plant Your Words Bedazzled 18 Oct 202229 Sep 2022 I see something white glint in the sun, falling from the goldfinch’s mouth at the birdfeeder outside my window. Birds scatter like seed when I open the back door. And…
Plant Your Words Two Trees 18 Oct 2022 Two trees, Planted next to one another Watch each other grow. Their roots intermingle And they communicate With each other. They both produce New leaves in the Spring, And bear…
Nature Tree and Me 17 Oct 202218 Oct 2022 I am the tree –the tree is me,my roots go deepinto soil and time.I bend in windbut do not breakthough stormstry to bring me down,.I have survivedand I have grown.My…
Plant Your Words the shyness of the crown 16 Oct 202228 Sep 2022 with thanks to carly and her garden "crown shyness is a phenomenon in which treetops reach closely to one another but do not touch, forming room to share light and…
Plant Your Words galactic question mark syndrome 15 Oct 202228 Sep 2022 how did you end up on this bipolar planet past its biosphere’s prime on maybe the galaxy’s only world with enough living species to seed all the barren goldilocks globes…
Plant Your Words Celebration 14 Oct 202228 Sep 2022 A man held my arm as if it were his son’s - slid a needle in without pain, pushed isotopes through my veins to light up my lungs. Warned me…
Plant Your Words Becoming a Wildflower and Dutchman’s Breeches 13 Oct 202228 Sep 2022 The time is right to bloom! I know it because my seed has been warmed by the Earth to the perfect temperature. It feels right to bloom! I just know…
Plant Your Words Pine Cones in the Street 12 Oct 202220 Sep 2022 The large pine tree shaded me as I’d sit on the curb talking on my cell phone, keeping UV rays away while cooling me those past summer days. Pine Cones…
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