Nature… Blue Milk 23 Oct 202018 Oct 2020 A late April snow clouds the view of fence line and the trees are an elegant velcro black against the hills. The soft thrum of fattened snowflake drowns sound into…
Nature… Tunneling 22 Oct 202022 Oct 2020 below the ground now wet and cold the old dirt greeting the new and becoming mud expanding as the water slips through each surface gap, you worm your way through…
Nature Poetry… Escape 22 Oct 202015 Oct 2020 Nature is my escape anywhere I am. I go wild in my mind when I think of it. It’s a refuge anytime I need to get away, To take…
Nature… Requiem for a Woodlouse 21 Oct 202018 Oct 2020 Busy sweeping up my house I came across a woodlouse lying on the curve of its back beside an armchair. What, asleep my love? Dead, my dove? I saw that…
Nature Poetry… Circles 21 Oct 202014 Oct 2020 I am considering circles while I watch the big crow pick at the newly dead carcass of the mallard duck, so fresh the emerald band at his neck…
Nature… Dawn’s Gift 21 Oct 202021 Oct 2020 Standing on the edge of night and day I wash my worries with the rain. And paint my hopes in watercolors across my soul, with a palette of Blush Peony…
Nature Poetry… Autumn in the Wings 20 Oct 202015 Oct 2020 Twigs’ lush medium is converting to calligraphy, the dismissal of leaves to launch its winter forewarning. Laden with late acorns, squirrels chuck-chuck meaningless memos, counter-balance full bellies, tails unfurled.…
Nature… Backyard Sermon 20 Oct 202018 Oct 2020 I wandered as a boy Wondered at such Creation From the Almighty Such great imagination Rambling in breezy nocturnal retrospect Soaking in tales and circumspect Myriad stars and katydid choir…
Nature… Fallen 19 Oct 202019 Oct 2020 You know the sound – That light scrape of leaf Once fallen. Like an old transistor Radio switched on It crackles Passing along the street With grace and a Gentle…
Nature… Postcard from Mars 18 Oct 202014 Oct 2020 I, a small red body floating here where your astronauts dare not venture, send greetings to you there on your hilltop, telescopes trained toward me, you who are manufactured from…
Nature Poetry… Amaryllis 18 Oct 202014 Oct 2020 This summer day, posed against orange zinnias, red geraniums—its hot rivals beyond the window glass—the flowering trumpet offers winter’s gift of white light. Through snow and sleet, while daffodils…
Nature… When We Were Kestrels 17 Oct 202013 Oct 2020 It was easier of course. Riding the thermals only required reaching wide enough to make our wings flush with flattening slate of wind. Landing was harder, but you would expect…
Nature… Possum at the Compost 16 Oct 202011 Oct 2020 The opussum is a beast as big as a pretty beagle, of grey cullour; yt hath a head like a swyne; eares, feet, and tayle like a ratt; she carries…
Featured Poet… Featured Poet: Michelle Sylliboy 16 Oct 202014 Oct 2020 Breathe My lungs are filling up ocean air working to the tenderness of natural knowledge it seeks completely inspired by the music she creates daily sudden memories…
Nature… Reflections on the Speech of Crows 15 Oct 202014 Sep 2022 Poem by James Byrd I am a teacher, musician, artist, poet, scientist, veteran (Infantry, Vietnam 66-67), and a devotee of life, love and the natural world. I am Georgian by…
Nature… Thicket of Memories 14 Oct 202011 Oct 2020 Thickets rise, their bony fingers splayed, sharp nails scratching my legs, begging for my green. I look away, ascending towards the blue. Descent into the brambles would bring consumption, swirled…
Nature… Dust on the Breeze 13 Oct 202013 Oct 2020 At this point, I'd really rather be a tree because then I could just be stuck, but free. I hear they spend no time at all talking, ‘agendarising’, And barely…
Nature… 5 Haiku 12 Oct 202021 Oct 2020 Hola Blue humpback whale spouts: “Yo soy aqui, ahora!” Off the coast of Spain Timeout Tired fawn takes a nap Mama lunches, runs errands Returns with fresh milk Life Fog…
Nature Poetry… Walking the Winter Woods 12 Oct 20208 Oct 2020 Poem by Deborah S. Prutzman This poem is part of a full-length poetry book called More Seasons at Sunrise Lane. Deborah’s books include an award-winning memoir of life in America…
Nature… Bombus Citrinus 11 Oct 202011 Oct 2020 A lemon cuckoo bumblebee On my garden fence, at rest. Her delicate wings, bold yellow vest Her name, evocative of honey Suggest a charming, benign creature - blossoms - a…
Nature Photography… To the Swallow This Spring at the State Park’s Nest Box 11 Oct 20207 Oct 2020 I own nothing of you nor this leaf that shivers into a half-bud above the phlox and blue flax that burrow with me into this old winter grass. Yet…
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