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Month: June 2023

Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Pellitory of the Wall

30 Jun 202317 Jun 2023
I cling between wall and path to untidy your garden, as you crouch-cross to tug me from my crevice. I am happy here sun-basking, drying out after rainfall. My leaves…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Dandelion

29 Jun 202317 Jun 2023
This is the flower to kiss. To blow into fields knowing somewhere suns will open in days to come, and then more air-bombs delicate as an idea that vanishes before…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Potential Historical Weeds

28 Jun 202317 Jun 2023
Librarian in a log cabin computer a nod to technology a message from the regional office: consider the potential for historical weeds. Professional jargon for purging the books gives way…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Wildflower haiku

27 Jun 202317 Jun 2023
Slit wildflower iris — hummingbird hungry for love stabs her in the eye Daybreak whispers of sunrise, wildflower voices awake — breath of night dew fades Fly the ripe poppies…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

March Sun

26 Jun 20237 Jul 2023
How unlikely it seems a wet rock orbiting this star should bring forth car traffic on black roads, birds’ song, from under an old leaf a tiny yellow star-shaped flower…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Late Winter Storm

25 Jun 202317 Jun 2023
Sun tangles in tree branches on the hillside, ignites in high windows; and, under stone, flames on the black creek. Sleet and snowflakes whipped and smoothed spark in miniscule prisms.…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Smiling at a Crocus in the Snow

24 Jun 20238 Jun 2023
A purple-blue intruder violates Winter’s reign of white. Peeking through the snow, a sign of Spring long before we dare to even look for any other signs. Is this, I…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Tenacity

23 Jun 20238 Jun 2023
A poet said: Look to the plants and listen to what they can teach you. When the sun slapped its hot iron down on the land, pressing every inch of…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Weedy Cameos

22 Jun 20238 Jun 2023
I. no one claims undying love for weeds growing by the roadside no respect yet each one lifts up a flower wild with its beauty—a gift untamed II. twisting around…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Blooming

21 Jun 20238 Jun 2023
What are you devoted to? Let me tell you it isn’t pain. It’s something close to beauty, but not quite. It’s not the color of the flower— but the way…
Nature

Dandelion Girl

20 Jun 20238 Jun 2023
They call me weed but I am flower wild, again, again I spring surprise Demeter’s daughter newborn windborn I arise, plumes flying defying the reaper’s cuts triumphant against the green…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Ode to the Eastern Redbud

19 Jun 20238 Jun 2023
Colonizer of borderlands, quiet claimer of spaces between, you are neither yin nor yang, but pink-smeared edge of our gray-brown wood, that space where fire coals brood themselves into burst…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Snowdrop Boogie

18 Jun 20238 Jun 2023
Overhead the great cosmic waltz plays, Orion and The Bear turn a lazy two-step, hard earth beneath, A wind that tattoos Scandinavia But still we rise. Come for me when…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Miracle in the Nevada Desert 2019

17 Jun 20238 Jun 2023
Here I am in the rain shadows on the leeward side of the mountain in sun-baked dirt cracked as an old dinner plate. Out of this, I rise alone, a…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

The Wild One

16 Jun 20238 Jun 2023
The pull to emerge became so urgent. Every cell of my being ready to break through soil. To dance in the waves of wind, To feel ablaze in the warmth…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

The Attraction of Wildflowers

15 Jun 20238 Jun 2023
Wildflowers are beautiful and free, dependent on no one. Allowed untouched space they will fleur-ish and show off Bidding us notice them, come and see. Their spotlight will be fleeting,…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

2009: Botanical Social Call with Konicek-Moran

14 Jun 20238 Jun 2023
On the fire road along the ecotone of sawgrass and pinelands, wildflowers grow in profusion after November’s burn. In winter bloom, endemic and Caribbean alike line our path. You, who…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

In a Field of Daisies

13 Jun 20234 Jun 2023
After days of summer sun and rain, her neighbor’s fallow pasture fills with field daisies. The bouquet that grows in her hands is a gift for the owner’s son; he’s…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Icarus’s Garden

12 Jun 20234 Jun 2023
Last summer, I planted wildflowers. I hoped they would embody a carefree beauty, a disregard for convention. They would stand tall and unruly and refuse to line up in perfect…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Yarrow

11 Jun 20234 Jun 2023
Wound healer, give me protection and divination. The cure for sneaky worries, I find, is to do more, spend less time with the demon thoughts, my Achilles’ heel. When fingers…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

In Praise of Meadows

10 Jun 20234 Jun 2023
Keep your moss-strewn paths and trilling rills, your cold, craggy cliffs of saxifrage, your stunted floribunda tethered to a trellis. Give me instead a wild meadow any season. Let me…

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Wetlands Themed Poetry and Photography – July 15, 2023

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