April 2023 – Tiny Seed Literary Journal

Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Morning Riser

30 Apr 202314 Apr 2023

Slivers of bleached light settleon ochre dusted waterThe sun’s kind influence offering lifeRustle of ground cover, a burble, small bubblesIn the marsh words fall away Beyond cattails where minnows hideSecluded…

Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Dandelion

29 Apr 202314 Apr 2023

wrapped in faded foldedwax paper and discoveredin the top drawerof her mother’s armoire,she became that five-year-old girlfirst plucking them from the grassthen running into the kitchenlook what I picked for…

Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Rose

28 Apr 202322 Apr 2023

A rose sprouted up on day,and it sprouted in such a way,it made all the other roses stay away.The rose stood alone for quite a few days,along came the wind…

Literary Owl Nature Writer

bloom of spring

27 Apr 202316 Apr 2023

Yes, the bloom of springFresh aromas diffusing into the sunny sky Our mother’s call That her time of vibrance has come once again She flaunts her beautyTeasing with her silky…

Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Lovers in Honeyed Light

26 Apr 202314 Apr 2023

for Charlotte A betrayal of trembling leaves and blossoms yet unseen toward sunset, a scarlet fluttering among Missouri currant, lilac, columbine, bee larkspur, wild bergamot, Oswego tea. Drunk on honey…

Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Dandelion

25 Apr 202314 Apr 2023

Birds sing through the rainas children sing through a war.Do flowers still growwhere bullets fall?A single petal on my palmleft over from those that blewfrom the stem, light as feathers,when…

Poetry of the Wild Flowers

LEADWORTS AND THE GENTIAN FAMILY

24 Apr 202314 Apr 2023

Plumbaginaceae and Gentianaceae Come into the saline habitat not to escape your own species, but to encounter them and Gaia as well, all things full of Her – each dewdrop…

Nature

Wings

23 Apr 202323 Apr 2023

Theme: Wings The beauty of birds in flight, the power of flight to inspire, the engineering and physics of how wings enable flight...let YOUR imagination take flight with this theme,…

Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Wildflowers, Waiting

23 Apr 202323 Apr 2023

We wait, each warming season Linking arms, an unspoken promise To surround the young With wild sweets woven Pink into the green grass, A foxglove and violet world Beyond the…

Poetry of the Wild Flowers

sweet peas, wild

22 Apr 202314 Apr 2023

can dry pods twist split-seam summer heat and pop you seeding themselves with such precise abandon beyond all tending hear field a-frill with flamenco dance bloom and blush them? twirling…

Poetry of the Wild Flowers

To A Bee in Clover

21 Apr 202311 Apr 2023

Your unwieldy body does not hold you back nor drive you into the shadows. Buzzing from one white globe to another, bending thin stems this way and that you bumble…

Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Photographing the Wild Geranium

20 Apr 202310 Apr 2023

What teaspoon of light draws me to my knees, the sun pulling me into this weedy gulch to lie beneath petal veins and five lavender lobes? The camera dials and…

Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Forget-Me-Not

19 Apr 202310 Apr 2023

Knots of the tiniest blue flowers like pinpricks from the sky,A summer sky, of the purest, most perfect blue.Shy, modest, hiding in cracks and crevices, by hedgerows, in yards.In parking…

Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Seeds of control

18 Apr 202310 Apr 2023

The daisy I pick from the hoarder’s overgrown yard at 11:00 p.m. lasts a week in a glass of water, the daisy from my lawn barely a day. The wrecking…

Bindweed

17 Apr 202310 Apr 2023

She is no respecter of paths or crops. Her leavesas sharp as arrows feed no livestock, fill no bellies.She is an immigrant who keeps her own counsel,insolently creeping like a…

Nature

Penstemon Honey

16 Apr 20239 Apr 2023

Snowdrops nearNod to peony —Both born againAfter novae,After nebulae,After black holes —To blossomIn mountain galaxies. A hint of pepper’s sting,A feathery touchOf primrose,Tease as I lift the lid.My jar of…

Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Coltsfoot

15 Apr 202314 Apr 2023

The first burst of spring’s velvet sunshine Arrives as trotting wild miniature golden horses Coltsfeet, stamping up and out of the muddy creeks and riverbeds Its glorious yellow dandelion face,…