Featured Poet… Paddling by Featured Poet: Alicia Hayden 6 Sep 202130 Aug 2021 For Annie Yellow boots, and a mackintosh; With a hood slightly too big, and sleeves slightly too short - Her prized possessions. And then it rains. The delight on her…
Nature THE RAIN THE NIGHT 1 Sep 202113 Aug 2021 by M P Pratheesh My works, both words and visuals, can be found at various places including poetry anthologies like Singing in the dark ( Penguin), Greening the earth ( forth coming…
Nature REMAINS / an object poem 1 Sep 202113 Aug 2021 by M P Pratheesh My works, both words and visuals, can be found at various places including poetry anthologies like Singing in the dark ( Penguin), Greening the earth (…
Lessons from the Wild… Outdoor Conversations 27 Aug 202127 Aug 2021 Sky and trees touching to bend light their branches and boughs bowing to the earth as wind blows softly to a breeze of uplift and down…
Nature Upcoming Submission Opportunity 23 Aug 20212 Sep 2021 Apaja’simk – To Return Submissions open on Submittable Oct 1 through Nov 1, 2021 What does it mean to ‘return’? We invite poets and photographers to capture the essence of…
Featured Poet… ‘You and I’ by Featured Poet: Alicia Hayden 22 Aug 202116 Aug 2021 Poem 'You and I' and drawing 'Bumblebee' by Alicia Hayden, Rain before Rainbows 2020 I am an award-winning poet and artist from North Yorkshire, with a degree in…
Nature Upcoming submission opportunity 13 Aug 202113 Aug 2021 Apaja’simk - To Return Submissions open on Submittable Oct 1 through Nov 1, 2021 What does it mean to ‘return’? We invite poets and photographers to capture the essence of…
Featured Poet… Leopard by Featured Poet: Alicia Hayden 8 Aug 202114 Aug 2021 First, I took amber and fire And I had his eyes. Then I took sunset and dawn And I had his coat. I added charcoal and ink And I had…
Anthology Forest… The Lesson 31 Jul 202120 Jul 2021 There used to be an old Oak tree out back. Life drained from it, it stood strong and sturdy. As a child I worshipped its towering stature and marveled its…
Anthology Forest… The Relativity of Noise 17 Jul 20215 Jul 2021 Speaking as a tree that fell in the forest with no one there to hear, acknowledge, or record the sound made as my trunk split, inexplicably, splintered, and finally crashed,…
Featured Poet… The Road North — A Spring Haibun by Featured Poet Chris La Tray 9 Jun 20218 Jun 2021 Highway 93 north, Missoula to Ronan, in the early days of spring. *** traveling north a lovely name on my lips ch-paa-qn in clouds A favorite story on this route…
Nature Burlapped Bushes 25 Apr 2021 Shaking snow from bamboo leaves, relieving arcing necks wet weight, is task enough with fat flakes plummeting I consider jangling our bushes less blanketed than buried. Then re-consider, considering my…
Featured Poet… Featured Poet Chris LaTray – Comet 11 Apr 202110 Apr 2021 Chris La Tray is a Métis writer and storyteller. His first book, One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays From the World At Large (2018, Riverfeet Press) won the 2018 Montana…
Nature Upcoming Submission Opportunity 18 Mar 2021 Hibernation: Taking time to rest and recharge during times of scarcity and challenge. Why do many animals hibernate in the winter? Winter can be a time of scarce food and…
Chapbook Contest 2020 Poetry for Nature Lovers 12 Feb 2021 Tiny Seed Press Chapbook Winner: Tabitha van der Lee This Beauty Has No Language by Tabitha van der Lee published by Tiny Seed Press is now available. 10% of the…
Lessons from the Wild… Hummingbirds 14 Jan 202114 Jan 2021 The hummingbirds arrived in our backyard again this summer, stopping to refuel on their long flight south. We watched as they helicoptered around the feeders, hovering as if frozen in…
Lessons from the Wild… Abracadabra 14 Jan 20211 Jan 2021 I stepped on a red mulberry leaf. “Ta-da” it’d crunched. We understood the alchemy of outside then, when we were kids. I enjoy outside now but have never been an…
Lessons from the Wild… Lessons from a Rock 13 Jan 202113 Jan 2021 I had a certain kinship with nature at a young age, growing up on an old farm with thirty five acres of fields and woodland. Climbing fallen trees and the…
Lessons from the Wild… My sister kept her garden 12 Jan 20211 Jan 2021 a careful patch with squash and beans, some other stuff we grew, growing up, a handful of blueberry shrubs nurtured against a wall for those days we piled into late…
Lessons from the Wild… People Still Get Polio 11 Jan 202111 Jan 2021 I discover a skinny desert path on my first morning walk in the Arizona neighborhood. The trail’s opening looks menacing in that brutal desert way, but further up the hill…
Lessons from the Wild… Pretty Little Darlings 11 Jan 20218 Jan 2021 Little darling greeted me in the back yard, slender face, dark eyes, coal black hair. Seemed interested to meet me, walked forward without hesitation. I froze, unable to speak,…
Nature How to Start a Movement, According to Crows 10 Jan 202110 Jan 2021 I hear them before I see them. By the tone, the meeting is important. I see flutters of wings, like black leaves, not falling but rising, from tree to tree,…
Lessons from the Wild… Once in a Lifetime 9 Jan 20218 Jan 2021 Marine biologists said it would only happen once, a phenomenon, swarming of bait fish off Cape Cuvier along distant Western Australian coast. A desolate, rocky place, few got to observe…
Lessons from the Wild… Three Answers to Any Dilemma 9 Jan 20218 Jan 2021 I. The Thunderstorm After sudden rain water rests as the puddle gathers blossoms. II. The Northern Blizzard While the howl covers a continent meek…
Lessons from the Wild… Hold Gently the Things That You Love 8 Jan 20218 Jan 2021 Photo by Carolyn Adams Carolyn Adams’ poetry and art have been published in the pages, and on the covers of Wend Poetry Journal, Steam Ticket, Apercus Quarterly, Calyx, and…
Nature Diver Tells How Shark Bit His Head 8 Jan 20211 Jan 2021 Summary of a S.F. Chronicle article by George Snyder, Chronicle North Bay Bureau Diver Tells How Shark Bit His Head Only minor wounds in attack at beach on Sonoma Coast…
Lessons from the Wild… River 7 Jan 20217 Jan 2021 I thought about you today A maelstrom of lonely Stirred beneath my bones And I remembered that most Of my life was lived near the river So maybe the river…
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