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…
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…
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