Lessons from the Wild… Moonlight Whispers 6 Jan 20216 Jan 2021 Moonlight, silver, streams through trees between clouds and night wind. Spring Peepers chirping, cicadas singing over grass rustling, waving, waving under wind. These frame, define, infuse meaning into life: my…
Lessons from the Wild… Wildness Provides 5 Jan 20211 Jan 2021 Wildness provides transcendental wisdom Seeping from nature’s system Enlightenment to listening youth Hidden, yet self-evident truth Warm breezy pineywood sages Sparrow with lessons for the ages Sings of seeds and…
Lessons from the Wild… A Mountain Mulls 4 Jan 20214 Jan 2021 I am a mountain, Like my peers, Big and strong Tall and long, I may be an Abode of spirits Or a pile of ore, A resting site For ancestors.…
Lessons from the Wild… Anxious Autumn Leaves 4 Jan 202127 Dec 2020 Anxious autumn leaves- Wind through trees Blowing howling Shrieking tearing Violently ripped From their branches. Spinning wildly Soaring spiraling Up and around Until until until Falling Falling Falling…
Lessons from the Wild… Corvus corax 3 Jan 20211 Jan 2021 A raven coasts over the hill, over the late-autumn maples all amber, umber and ocher. He grasps the top-most branch of a white pine and looses guttural croaks that carry…
Lessons from the Wild… I find myself 2 Jan 20212 Jan 2021 By Josephine LoRe Josephine LoRe is a first-generation Canadian who has survived covid mainly through the gift of zoom, which has transformed her computer screen into a portal opening onto…
Lessons from the Wild… Revisiting a Sanctuary for a Child Who Found Her Freedom 1 Jan 202127 Dec 2020 Poem by Joni Caggiano Joni's blog is the-inner-child, where she has published poetry, photography, and short stories. Take a look at Joni's work in Spillwords Press NYC (where she…
Lessons from the Wild… Deep Ecology of the Great Smoky Mountains 31 Dec 202019 Dec 2020 Once again, birds singing in the rain, and though I’m far from home, I’m home again – this time in America’s most visited park. Looking out from my…
Lessons from the Wild… Gorgeous Envy 30 Dec 202027 Dec 2020 If I had a diamondback terrapin I would name her Spartina after the brack-water grass where her kind nest If I had a green tree frog I would name her…
Lessons from the Wild… The Return 29 Dec 202019 Dec 2020 Stiff, stifled, stuffed Barricaded and boxed in. A chair-shaped caricature of myself, Imprisoned in flesh, slowly dying, To get out. I did not know. I did not know,…
Lessons from the Wild… Addendum to the Canticle of the Creatures Written on the California North Coast 28 Dec 202028 Dec 2020 From a blue so deep the sky burns in envy, to a gentle gray a shade darker than the compact clouds above, every few hours you don a different dress,…
Lessons from the Wild… Divination 28 Dec 202023 Dec 2020 I try to read the hieroglyphs of geese scribbled across the clouds, a wavering message moving south. This means something, I think, this shorthand of theirs, but I am unversed…
Lessons from the Wild… Message from a Snake 27 Dec 202019 Dec 2020 When FEAR presents itself: Be in the moment. Take a deep breath. Listen to your heart. Don’ t allow FEAR to blur your vision on this journey through life!…
Lessons from the Wild… Delicate Geometry 26 Dec 202023 Dec 2020 A spider never sees its web. Not really. Not as we see it. The delicate geometry of it — The implications. There’s No real cunning, is there? No Stratagem. Every…
Lessons from the Wild… Wilderness Dreams 25 Dec 202019 Dec 2020 In the dream he had, he tells me I am sitting on the front steps, my mother The step below, leans against my legs. We are laughing, the way…
Lessons from the Wild… Inspiration from the tree roots 24 Dec 202023 Dec 2020 Just like the tree... our lives are uprooted and exposed. Our wounds are revealed... not for us to suffer, but for us to heal them. Lower frequencies cannot exist in…
Lessons from the Wild… Horseshoe Crab 23 Dec 202018 Dec 2020 I read about its ancient history in the local paper. Now, here was one stranded outside the motel, its underside exposed like an offering to seagulls or the sun. How…
Lessons from the Wild… Laying Down Your Burdens 22 Dec 202019 Dec 2020 After emptying the foil tuna packet I pour in some water, slosh it around and drink it; repeating until I’ve consumed every fleck of fish and drop of oil.…
Lessons from the Wild… Life Within the Desert 22 Dec 202022 Dec 2020 The Coyote’s Melody Sometimes mournfully, sometimes joyfully Yet all the while determined—it sings Like no other, except for itself—carrying Hot paws, empty stomach, yet its Soul filled with life—climbing To…
Lessons from the Wild… I.O.U. 21 Dec 202018 Dec 2020 There are unclaimed promises within each moment you find awe; a contract that has been agreed upon with each striking sight. You become indebted. Choose to keep it sacred, silent…
Lessons from the Wild… The Eagle 20 Dec 202013 Dec 2020 The young eagle screams from its nest in the towering pine with the broken top on the tiny island across the lily-padded bay. He screams out of loneliness…
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