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Category: Nature Poetry

Nature…

hope

13 Jun 202217 May 2022
        Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all. —…
Nature…

Dandelion

12 Jun 202217 May 2022
It’s your parachute that takes you away, the one of old age that disperses your seed, when bracts bend down for launching your release to the dropping of stamens, dried…
Nature…

Dent De Lion

9 Jun 202215 May 2022
Your green lions’ teeth— jagged-edge leaves— devour neighboring sprouts. Day by day we watch your shafts erect until phallus buds unfurl— yellow fronds explode. Honeybees jockey and feast for pollen…
Nature…

Sudden Sunset

7 Jun 202215 May 2022
In a sudden sunset forest In a certain glow of light The last rays of day Cast their colorful fire We watch the deepening The layers of orange upon orange…
Nature…

Fertilizer

5 Jun 202215 May 2022
To lie face down in the earth until becoming as soft as the clay. The ground absorbs like the undulating arms of an amoeba. Swallows whole while sucking the soil…
Nature…

Even the Desert

4 Jun 202214 May 2022
Clenched like a seed in the crevice of dry rock and then, first mist like baptism a soft drenching water orb on wax as night falls. The drop stays dissolves…
Nature…

eden

3 Jun 202214 May 2022
1. I’m burning with bloom here, in this own bedroom, where the life-sounds coming from the people I love people I love permeate my sleep. I wake with salt dried…
Nature…

To Wonder About the Dandelion Seeds, is to Wonder About Ourselves

2 Jun 202214 May 2022
I watch the brown puffs of sparrow. They are so many, and so common. In an instant, this could be over. In an instant, nuke or storm could hit, as…
Nature…

Plant Your Words Book Launch – Today!

27 May 202227 May 2022
Tiny Seed Literary Journal has a long history of cultivating a space for poets and writers to share their nature-inspired works with the online world. Two poets that have previously…
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…
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…
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…

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,…
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…
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…
Lessons from the Wild…

Stone Ponds Way Trail

7 Jan 20211 Jan 2021
In the ice kingdom above Upper Lena Lake, my son and I are the only moving shapes. We follow an indistinct path and trade leads, because the practice of drafting…
Lessons from the Wild…

A Lament for Blackthorn Blossom

6 Jan 20218 Jan 2021
  Only last week, its froth framed this Welsh lane with a wedding arch, a pair of willow warbler, the happy couple. Meanwhile the virus was in hideous rise, morgues…

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