Nature Ode To Prickly Pears 10 Sep 20233 Oct 2023 All those poems that compare womento flowers: they never made sense. I livein a land full of iron and dust. Even the skybleaches under unrelenting sun. Our riversare traced on…
Nature Wild Oats 9 Sep 20233 Sep 2023 Not the one that looks like a weedblowing seed to wind.No, the showier one—Uvularia sessilifolia, Bellwort,Merry Bells.One of the first wildflowers to pop up in spring.Like a rambunctious kidsweeping through…
Nature Forget-Me-Nots 8 Sep 20233 Sep 2023 (Myosotis sylvatica) Fifteen months after my mother’s death I sprinkled portions of her cremains in meaning-filled areas as I trekked around England. what have you noticed as you walk the…
Nature Snow drops 7 Sep 20233 Sep 2023 Their bowed heads tremble in the displaced air from the Broad Street traffic Nestled between last year’s leaves, this year’s grass, and everything we’ve discarded a limp surgical mask, a…
Nature Heart of the Earth 6 Sep 20233 Sep 2023 I am the amethyst studded stalk of self-heal.You have named me well - blue earth, heart-of-the-earthhealing the hurt of the world with my purple dressings.Generosity fills every part of me.Place…
Nature summer sorrow songs 5 Sep 20233 Sep 2023 sing to the wind andthe grass will harmonize flowers begin to cry outover the wailing chorussharp blades sendingscreams bouncinglike pinball in the woodsending up in bark and twigsstored, only releasedby…
Nature Tiburon Lily 4 Sep 20233 Sep 2023 Start any time so long as it’s the lastof May, the first of June—and morning, pleasewhen the hillside listens for your footfall, and shadows teaseeach hollow in the rock with…
Nature Lamentations of an Orchid 3 Sep 202331 Aug 2023 Before the transitionI was delivered with carein the finest of greenhouses caressed and soothedby skillful hands and gentle raysof indirect sunlight life was full of promisehope ever boundlesslike my ancestors…
Nature Ode to a Lady’s Slipper 2 Sep 202316 Oct 2023 I stop at a lady’s slipper see its long pink balloon blossom with fuschia veins that stream through tender flesh. Its entryway is concealed between lightly scented folds to entice…
Nature The Last Wild Rose 11 Aug 20237 Aug 2023 Last nightI was hurrying along a sodden trailwet from wind and stormy rainwhen I caught the pink sunset color of your petalson the corner of my eye,andyou yanked me back…
Nature A Lovely Tangled Mess 10 Aug 20237 Aug 2023 ode to Bugleweed Come, humble beauty,carpet the winter garden’s waste and rot,gentle the heads of rocks and wee creatures.The sweetness of your blue-violet blooms—manna from heaven to both buzzing and…
Nature WILD VIOLETS 9 Aug 20237 Aug 2023 I gathered wild violetsBeckoning me in royal purple and whiteTinged with yellow, a markerTo awaken.“It’s time to make medicine.”As much for the soul as the body. My grandmother speaks to…
Nature Dreaming Spring in Late February 8 Aug 20237 Aug 2023 Ten days until March arrives,and already bloodroot,toothwort, hepatica, deepbeneath the cold soil,loosen the tight knotsof their winter dormancy,tune to the old verdant call,feel earth’s rotation,the steady pull toward sun. Neither…
Nature BEES 7 Aug 20236 Aug 2023 1. In late spring on Tivy Mountain I caught sight of a solitary bee. A straggler to the buds of late blooming flowers, Red daisies, a snapdragon’s yellow universe. Flower…
Nature I Propose We Worship Lady Slippers 5 Aug 20235 Aug 2023 I hear a neighbor spots a onebut my searches turn up nothing.Still, there was a quality of mercyto know he found this rarityin a bright morning so common. Fifty years…
Nature Hopes of the Wildflower 2 Aug 202327 Jul 2023 When I grow up, I should like to be a butterfly-is what I thought one day when a particularlybeautiful specimen flew by my meadow.Delicate, patterned wings carry her wherever she…
Nature Little Lions Everywhere 31 Jul 202327 Jul 2023 Shaggy faces tilt to the sun, toothed leaves splay.Dandelions: one man’s weed,another man’s wildflower.Like brass buttons they fasten down our lawn.But soon, blossoms shrivel;petals turn ochre, then amber-brown.Tiny wombs swell,…
Nature So Many Meadows 30 Jul 202327 Jul 2023 A girl deflowers green stems Places the daisies in a green glass vase Sets them on a nightstand The petals a patch of light Shine meadow brilliance The flowers the…
Nature Snowdrops 29 Jul 202327 Jul 2023 Can-it-be winter is leaving; such loveliness is joyous their greenery is-beauteous, with a charm undeceiving. Snowdrops are pushing up last year's magnolia leaves making little-brown tepees I can almost hear…
Nature Wildflower Memorial 28 Jul 202327 Jul 2023 Wildflowers lovingly reside. Upon my true love’s grave. A cherished reminisce of our walks in meadows within the mountains we joyously called home. Baby’s breath, so delicate and pure. Purple…
Nature I’m A Poppy 27 Jul 20233 Oct 2023 Poem by Alan Viney I’m a very amateur poet from Herefordshire, England. I love wildlife and nature, so I was very comfortable putting myself in the head of a Poppy…
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