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Month: July 2023

Nature

Little Lions Everywhere

31 Jul 202327 Jul 2023
Shaggy faces tilt to the sun, toothed leaves splay.Dandelions: one man’s weed,another man’s wildflower.Like brass buttons they fasten down our lawn.But soon, blossoms shrivel;petals turn ochre, then amber-brown.Tiny wombs swell,…
Nature

So Many Meadows

30 Jul 202327 Jul 2023
A girl deflowers green stems Places the daisies in a green glass vase Sets them on a nightstand The petals a patch of light Shine meadow brilliance The flowers the…
Nature

Snowdrops

29 Jul 202327 Jul 2023
Can-it-be winter is leaving; such loveliness is joyous their greenery is-beauteous, with a charm undeceiving. Snowdrops are pushing up last year's magnolia leaves making little-brown tepees I can almost hear…
Nature

Wildflower Memorial

28 Jul 202327 Jul 2023
Wildflowers lovingly reside. Upon my true love’s grave. A cherished reminisce of our walks in meadows within the mountains we joyously called home. Baby’s breath, so delicate and pure. Purple…
Nature

Dance of the Yellow Lady’s-slipper Orchid

26 Jul 202322 Jul 2023
Caught you dancingwith moss and dwarf willow,with cloudberry and Labrador tea. Dance until your petals fall,until the autumn windcatches your tiny seedsand carries the dance everywhere. You were fragile then,now…
Nature

African Violet

25 Jul 202322 Jul 2023
I lean and watch them speak,in tongues, royal purple tongues,twirling in full heart-shaped mouths: mouths with curved-in lips,some greener than others, servingsmooth words on velvet goblets: goblets with five handles…
Nature

Collecting

24 Jul 202322 Jul 2023
Wild ginger, pressed between leaves my mother's Joy of Cooking. Snatches of Bitterroot, tangled in student comments from a waylaid semester. Lead Plant still pungent when I rub among fading…
Nature

Trumpet Flower and the Hummingbird

23 Jul 202322 Jul 2023
Trumpet flower in the meadow lay,with fragrant blooms so red and fair.Oh buzzing bird with wings so swift.Come visit me and spend some time.As you flit and flutter through the…
Nature

First, the Daffodils

22 Jul 202320 Jul 2023
When the snow melts, the rogue daffodilsare first to spike from the brown ground. They form a line of green at the edgeof the woods, waiting. The sun shines on…
Nature

Lupine

21 Jul 202320 Jul 2023
If you go to the hillsideon a summer day,there you will findlupine, growingregalwealthy and whimsical,basking in summer glory.The purple delights,fairies in flower form,ready to grantyour deepest desire. Poem by Grace…
Nature

Moss Campion

20 Jul 202320 Jul 2023
in love with the lichen orange granite rash she blooms in the knot of parched soil packed into cracked stone near the peak near the sun she and her sisters…
Nature

Silversword Pierce

19 Jul 202313 Jul 2023
“Did you see the silversword blooming Happens once every half century” Distracted I had passed by stuck in some mind-invented crevice all about my imprisoned ego waiting for more stabs…
Nature

The Daisy

18 Jul 202313 Jul 2023
...follows soft the Sun —Emily Dickinson Daisy, give me your answer, do. Made into a frail chain, placed on a maiden’s head. Plaintive in song and style. Day’s eye open…
Nature

The Checker Mallow, Sidalcea oregana

17 Jul 202313 Jul 2023
like the junco, often goes unheeded no one yells in ecstasy look a junco or a mallow but unlike the dowdy bird, this flower shows a blush for the seduction…
Nature

Wildflowers

16 Jul 202313 Jul 2023
We are not seeds or bulbs placedtenderly in cultivated soil, wateredroutinely by a gentle sprinkler to growin a precise pattern and be admired dailyby a gardener. We are dropped from…
Nature

Wild Flowers in Japanese Forms

15 Jul 20236 Jul 2023
Please see author’s note at bottom. This is one wild flower poem in 5 parts. Wild Flowers in Japanese Forms I. Coneflower (Choka) Each bloom, a dreamt gift. Greek’s sea…
Nature

Wild as I Am

14 Jul 20236 Jul 2023
Pistil stamen pollen petalStem and leaf and shallow roots.Wild as I am you name me.What use have Ifor your words or poetry?All I need isWind and bird and the legOf…
Nature

The Calling

13 Jul 20236 Jul 2023
Blood-red hibiscus grewfurther back from the riverbanksun-dappledwhere I dared not often go;soft green breezesin a periwinkle skynow shimmered tiny bloomletsnow held them an instant in balancecalling Foxglove and hyacinth mingled…
Nature

War of the Irises

12 Jul 20236 Jul 2023
Running underground rhizomesand web of roots tangle, stranglethe Greek goddess of the rainbowas if jealous of her beauty.Green creeping Bermuda grassstolons search for sunlight,for anchor space among the tall bladesof…
Nature

A Lesson from Wildflowers

11 Jul 20236 Jul 2023
Spring after spring they grow from the once slumbering seeds, Beautiful, untamed and rise to greet the summer sun. Opening their faces, painting the tree lines, hillsides and valleys With…
Nature

Wildling

10 Jul 20236 Jul 2023
This life that strives to be sopicture perfect, likea magazine, shiny and slick.Colors so carefully cultivated to becomplimentary and seasonallyorchestrated more eloquently than an opus.They want this garden to be…

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Wetlands Themed Poetry and Photography – July 15, 2023

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Observe ecology of wetlands, or the importance of wetlands to our environment…

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