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Month: August 2023

Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Dandelion Greens

31 Aug 20231 Sep 2023
They break through the will of winter— the cold of coming back, the control of childlike spirit cracking the responsibility of staying alive, the calendar of thinking anything is possible—…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Foxgloves outside the fence

30 Aug 20239 Aug 2023
‘…digitalis, a plant that is beautiful on the outside but toxic at its heart with all parts of the plant poisonous. It derives from several cardiac glycosides produced by the…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Explaining the Veil of Ignorance to a Wildflower

29 Aug 20239 Aug 2023
First, imagine yourself unborn, Leaves and petals back in seed, Small white heads of your root Curiously tucked in. You know Less than nothing about what to be Or become,…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Wildflowers

28 Aug 20239 Aug 2023
I spread wildflower seeds acrossmy yard of pineneedle detritus dirt. Bringthe color, pop the bland, and reintroducenative. Maybe by next springthis land will burst to life again. S. Marie Watkins…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

The Tiny Flowers

27 Aug 20239 Aug 2023
I looked up at the sky and saw clouds merging; new ones being born. I felt the soil between my toes and thought how it nourishes, grows. I smelled the…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Dandelions

26 Aug 20239 Aug 2023
I delight in the dandelions Their stubborn will to see the sun When spring has only begun Named a weed by the ones Who close their eyes still Refusing sight…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Ox-Eye Daisy

25 Aug 20239 Aug 2023
Leucanthemum vulgare A daisy – has no time for horology or policy, too busy being happy. When called a noxious weed, it doesn’t see a problem, just proceeds, stomping through…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Blue-Eyed Grass: Their Sweet, Oh, Lullaby

24 Aug 20239 Aug 2023
Simplified beauty and tasteless rainwith all the leaves and we bow downto another day. The languageof weeds bring me to a river bayyet we chop them downwith the blades and…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Violets

23 Aug 202327 Jul 2023
The violets blooming under my apple trees make a fine ground cover, although my neighbor on the other side of the fence is trying to eradicate them from his lawn.…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Promenade

22 Aug 202327 Jul 2023
Another day of drizzle soaks into the soil to feed wildflowers hiding in the loam – resting there in deep slumber. Soon they will nudge each other, stretch and climb…
Literary Owl Nature Writer

Dancing embers in the Sky by Eidan Miana

22 Aug 202316 Jul 2023
The burning sun brightens the awakening morningThe temperature steadily climbingThe foreshadowing of buzzing cicadasThat’s right, it’s summer The wise canopy of emeralds to the eastProvide some relief to the unrelenting…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Màk (poppy)

21 Aug 202327 Jul 2023
orange-yellow, California state flower petals delicate, velvet richness you dive into wiry, fierce, sprouting despite harshest soils wind-seared sand, impenetrable clay, disruption— determined your golden meadows signal springtime luxurious in…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

First Flowers

20 Aug 202321 Jul 2023
A bilingual tanka in Irish and English (5-7-5-7-7 syllables) the first flowers I picked hearing the orphaned earth sigh yes, I remember they were my very first friends silent, trusting,…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Depth of Field

19 Aug 202321 Jul 2023
Spring had arrived! Yet somehow, that first week, the landscaper missed our house. Our neighbor’s lawn was trim and tidy; A groomed green plot, spotless and respectable. Perhaps, as daylight…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Listen to the calico aster

18 Aug 202321 Jul 2023
Listen to the calico aster Sharing wisdom from the Master Carried on the whispering wind While bees, pollen to attend With flower so complex Observers whence and vex At the…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Queen of Weeds

17 Aug 202317 Jul 2023
Joan Kantor Joan Kantor has completed several poetry collections and has been published in numerous journals. She has won The Hackney Literary Award for Poetry,first place for poetry in The…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Dancing – Little Elephant Head (Pedicularis attolens)

16 Aug 202317 Jul 2023
In the hills above Crested ButteI hike to the blue sky,meet a flowerwith tiny pink elephant heads,dark pink trunks.Enchanted, the elephantsdance togetherand tilt their trunksto the sky. Beth Cash Beth…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

spring morning

15 Aug 202316 Jul 2023
Violets are thick in the grass. You’re not here to hear the robins. Maple blossoms morph into copper wings. They await the release of one single whirling flight. Dandelions show…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

haiku

14 Aug 202316 Jul 2023
crack in wet pavementno man’s land, save tender sproutraised flag reads: survive. sav franz sav franz enjoys long walks on the cracked pavement, having absolutely nothing to say in too…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

Dandelions Beyond the Cracks

13 Aug 202316 Jul 2023
Pushing through the cracks Not aware of my upcoming challenges, But in my heart, I knew I was so talented The overwhelming fear made me step back. I’m not like…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers

i send you this

12 Aug 202316 Jul 2023
I send you this feathery dandelion a perfect, airy sphere carried on the wind word by word Joanne Grumet My chapbook, GARDEN OF EVE, was published by Finishing Lline Press…

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Wetlands Themed Poetry and Photography – July 15, 2023

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