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 202331 Aug 2023 I am hardly ever able to pass by a lady’s slipper without stopping to see its curvaceous blossom— a long, pink and white balloon with a delicate entryway concealed between…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Dandelion Application 1 Sep 20239 Aug 2023 It’s a bad rap, his ex-con image: rough-edged leaves and desire to lay low to the ground, but his references vouch for his many talents. They say he’ll work anywhere…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Dandelion Greens 31 Aug 20231 Sep 2023 They break through the will of winter— the cold of coming back, the control of childlike spirit cracking the responsibility of staying alive, the calendar of thinking anything is possible—…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Foxgloves outside the fence 30 Aug 20239 Aug 2023 ‘…digitalis, a plant that is beautiful on the outside but toxic at its heart with all parts of the plant poisonous. It derives from several cardiac glycosides produced by the…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Explaining the Veil of Ignorance to a Wildflower 29 Aug 20239 Aug 2023 First, imagine yourself unborn, Leaves and petals back in seed, Small white heads of your root Curiously tucked in. You know Less than nothing about what to be Or become,…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Wildflowers 28 Aug 20239 Aug 2023 I spread wildflower seeds acrossmy yard of pineneedle detritus dirt. Bringthe color, pop the bland, and reintroducenative. Maybe by next springthis land will burst to life again. S. Marie Watkins…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers The Tiny Flowers 27 Aug 20239 Aug 2023 I looked up at the sky and saw clouds merging; new ones being born. I felt the soil between my toes and thought how it nourishes, grows. I smelled the…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Dandelions 26 Aug 20239 Aug 2023 I delight in the dandelions Their stubborn will to see the sun When spring has only begun Named a weed by the ones Who close their eyes still Refusing sight…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Ox-Eye Daisy 25 Aug 20239 Aug 2023 Leucanthemum vulgare A daisy – has no time for horology or policy, too busy being happy. When called a noxious weed, it doesn’t see a problem, just proceeds, stomping through…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Blue-Eyed Grass: Their Sweet, Oh, Lullaby 24 Aug 20239 Aug 2023 Simplified beauty and tasteless rainwith all the leaves and we bow downto another day. The languageof weeds bring me to a river bayyet we chop them downwith the blades and…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Violets 23 Aug 202327 Jul 2023 The violets blooming under my apple trees make a fine ground cover, although my neighbor on the other side of the fence is trying to eradicate them from his lawn.…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Promenade 22 Aug 202327 Jul 2023 Another day of drizzle soaks into the soil to feed wildflowers hiding in the loam – resting there in deep slumber. Soon they will nudge each other, stretch and climb…
Literary Owl Nature Writer Dancing embers in the Sky by Eidan Miana 22 Aug 202316 Jul 2023 The burning sun brightens the awakening morningThe temperature steadily climbingThe foreshadowing of buzzing cicadasThat’s right, it’s summer The wise canopy of emeralds to the eastProvide some relief to the unrelenting…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Màk (poppy) 21 Aug 202327 Jul 2023 orange-yellow, California state flower petals delicate, velvet richness you dive into wiry, fierce, sprouting despite harshest soils wind-seared sand, impenetrable clay, disruption— determined your golden meadows signal springtime luxurious in…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers First Flowers 20 Aug 202321 Jul 2023 A bilingual tanka in Irish and English (5-7-5-7-7 syllables) the first flowers I picked hearing the orphaned earth sigh yes, I remember they were my very first friends silent, trusting,…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Depth of Field 19 Aug 202321 Jul 2023 Spring had arrived! Yet somehow, that first week, the landscaper missed our house. Our neighbor’s lawn was trim and tidy; A groomed green plot, spotless and respectable. Perhaps, as daylight…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Listen to the calico aster 18 Aug 202321 Jul 2023 Listen to the calico aster Sharing wisdom from the Master Carried on the whispering wind While bees, pollen to attend With flower so complex Observers whence and vex At the…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Queen of Weeds 17 Aug 202317 Jul 2023 Joan Kantor Joan Kantor has completed several poetry collections and has been published in numerous journals. She has won The Hackney Literary Award for Poetry,first place for poetry in The…
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