Nature… Overtime 2 Aug 202014 Jul 2020 -Photographs by Rita Serra Rita Serra is an emerging poet and minted author. Her debut work, “Diary of a Blonde Vagabond,” is a poetic anthology that guides readers across four…
Nature Poetry… I Carry My Vessel From Water to Water 1 Aug 202025 Jul 2020 We carry our canoes, sacred text, dry shoes.Our guide wears a sun hat, hidden pockets. She shepherdseight campers teetering on the precipiceof becoming. In the morning with our sleep eyeswe…
Nature… Saint Modomnoc (c. 550 A.D.) 1 Aug 202030 Jun 2020 If by touching a wave, I should changethen likely the wave also changesIf by staring at stars of vast rangethis world through my eye rearrangesWhen the world followed me as…
Nature… Candle Bee 1 Aug 202014 Jul 2020 limited perception of what’s going on but it looks like tracks of pollen in my mind leading me like footprinted breadcrumbs that could lead anywhere, be anyone, show your light…
Nature… The Bees and I 31 Jul 202030 Jun 2020 The beesaround my headgive me spaceto cut spent bloomsawayAwayfrom time and thoughtI take their rhythm formy own, relax into the buzzthey singThey singof work as sweet,and timed to ancient clocks;I…
Nature… The Appearance of the Spoonbill 31 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 Can a thought that moves my hand and writes a word, birth an occurrence? Sounds like a mystical Jungian event, but sometimes, who denies there are things that happen where…
Nature… Chrysalis 30 Jul 202030 Jun 2020 tethered by a silken threadshe safely cocoons herselfa golden chrysalisquietly encasedpatiently preparingto free her constraintsshe will emerge a new selfexpanding her wingsto dance in the wind By Abby DeSantis Abby…
Nature… On the Porch 30 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 "He who kisses the joy as it flies”—William Blake August. At the behest of nature, life feels epiphanous. In the simultaneous lazy, longevity grows slender. Thick with humid blooms, summer’s…
Nature… Milkweed Pollinator 29 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 Once the solitary flyer buzzed her way to me, ignited my sight, and illuminated the stamen of my eye, golden iris, so vistas concentrated their chasms on the pupil and…
Nature… Frontier 28 Jul 202028 Jul 2020 An estate of orange brick, gouged into the moor. A new world being hacked, a clearing amongst the chimneys and cobbles, and we were the first to chart it. Life…
Nature… Bee Healthy 28 Jul 202028 Jul 2020 Bee Healthy Photograph by Allison Paoli Allison is a published poet and visual artist who resides in Nashville, Tennessee. Her work can be found in several publications including, but not…
Nature… Mexican Sunflower Monarch & 5 Pollinator Haiku 27 Jul 202027 Jul 2020 Mexican Sunflower Monarch 5 Pollinator HaikuQuickieHummingbird hoversPenetrates till satisfiedThird party loverRainDrone bees zig-zag homeDodging thundershower flakHoneyed queen dancingPaintSultry sunflowersFlame red and blossom yellowWhores to garden beesSoBumblebee exposé —So much to…
Nature… Sense Memory 27 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 do the clouds part for loneliness? cresting. the sun cradles the moon at sunrise. flesh falls from hollow bones. the osprey eat dinner alone. together. the bees may not make…
Nature… Bombus 27 Jul 202027 Jul 2020 I am stopped hoe in hand by the bee hovering at eye level weighing my worthiness to attend her garden -Jane Wheeler Jane Wheeler lives on a small hobby farm…
Nature… All That is Manifold 25 Jul 202029 Jun 2020 At the refuge this windy fall morningthe pollinator garden is still ripeand humming with honey and bumble beeshovering above the aster blossoms.A bee box, with its small holes, gives shelterfor…
Nature… Lepidoptera 25 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 so varied and beautiful they taste with their feet and their feet pollenate our gardens a group is a flutter their eyes have 6000 lens sensitive to ultraviolet wings are…
Nature… New Morning 24 Jul 202029 Jun 2020 “If dogs run free, then why not we...”-- Bob Dylan, 1970If dogs have fleas ----- then why not me?I wonder wondering if our magnificenttrees whose farthest-out leaves’re deador dying and…
Nature… Impossible Guest 24 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 One afternoon at the million-bells which hang at the corner of the deck he appears for a fleeting instant an apparition of inconceivable beauty thimble-sized seraph gorget ablaze like armor…
Nature… The Neon Isle of Inner City 22 Jul 202029 Jun 2020 I will arise and go now, and go to the inner city,And a large skyscraper scale, of tar and metal made;Nine accountants will I have there, a hive for the…
Nature… Lilies at the Russian River 22 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 -Photograph by Callie Gonsalves Callie Gonsalves is currently studying creative writing in Cambridge, MA. In addition to four short stories and one poem published across three different literary magazines, she…
Nature… The Heights I Go 21 Jul 202021 Jul 2020 The Heights I Go Photograph by Jenny Hayut Jenny is a native of Virginia. She is a novelist, poet and photographer. Her poetry as well as her photography draws inspiration…
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