Lessons from the Wild… Adirondacks 16 Dec 202013 Dec 2020 Water roars over boulders heaved up by ice age glaciers rushes through the canyon boring holes and kettle pools in the eons old rock tumbling and churning down the mountainside…
Lessons from the Wild THE CREEK 16 Dec 20204 Dec 2020 A single shallow creek flowed through those plain flat fields, but gave us all we needed, its banks a hint of wilderness, free from prying adult eyes, our wigwams built…
Lessons from the Wild… Centenarian Olive Tree 15 Dec 202013 Dec 2020 She holds history in the threads of her taproots. Her heartwood tells the story of rain, seasons of dry sorrow and wind. In her knuckled branches, in her silver…
Lessons from the Wild Kick-Off: Lessons from the Wild 15 Dec 202014 Dec 2020 Dear Tiny Seed Community, We’re excited to start publishing submissions from our “Lessons from the Wild” theme! It was an honor to read your responses to this prompt. Each submitter…
Lessons from the Wild Rewilding 15 Dec 202014 Dec 2020 - previously published as a finalist in TulipTree Review’s Wild Women Contest issue. Poem by Tracy Rose Stamper. Tracy Rose Stamper dances with words. She lives in a…
Facing the Fire… God Elements 14 Dec 202014 Dec 2020 In the beginning before any burning bush God was fire alone it must be so for what is God if not life? what is life if not fire? creation erupts…
Nature I Spy 13 Dec 20204 Jan 2021 Poem by Chelsea Jackson Chelsea Jackson is awestruck by creativity and its power to challenge and comfort. She uses her poetry to ask hard questions, engage in social…
Facing the Fire… Light I Can Hear 13 Dec 202013 Dec 2020 I watch, mesmerized at how quickly bark catches fire, and how bark, just as quickly, creates her afterlife in mid-air; I want to join her, and the night, throw myself…
Facing the Fire Burns 12 Dec 202010 Dec 2020 I’m holding in, the moment, An attempt to slow it, Hiding behind the spider webs, Screaming in the kitchen, They sleep in their beds, Fearing under the sheets, Picking away…
Facing the Fire… Desert Phoenix 11 Dec 20204 Dec 2020 The pagan sun at zenith stands, Above the scorched and ravaged land, Where wildfires blaze and cattle thirst, And all below seems dry and cursed. The cities suck the…
Facing the Fire… I Fear the Dragon 10 Dec 202010 Dec 2020 By Joni Caggiano Joni Caggiano is a self-published author of the book “The Path Toward the Light.” Her blog is https://www.the-inner-child.com, where she has published poetry, photography, and short stories.…
Facing the Fire Red Maples 9 Dec 20204 Dec 2020 As radiant as springtime’s blossoms, fall foliage mimics summer fruit brightly colored at peak ripeness. Then crisping leaves like licking flames soon subside as winter ashes and sift to roots…
Facing the Fire… Fire Ship 8 Dec 202029 Nov 2020 The sea expressed itself leaving us Provisions saturated and impractical Charts drawn in dissolving plot lines Among a vanishing and mutinous crew Overboard went treasured collections And wealth as we…
Facing the Fire Elegy for Saint Helena 7 Dec 20207 Dec 2020 The orange fruit dove who perched upon an untouched sea of grace Whistled gentle knells of vapor that ascended into space By the time her prayers reached heaven, her home…
Facing the Fire… Across Kilauea 6 Dec 20204 Dec 2020 In heavy downpour, blinded by somber clouds, I stand on her high perimeter imagining Halemaumau far below, simmering on the face of his mother caldera, Kilauea, who, in 1967,…
Facing the Fire… The Fire of Francisville 5 Dec 20204 Dec 2020 When summer heat gives way to cold and ice and village folk begin the winter war of fixing window-panes and checking twice equipment, grains, and jars they have in store,…
Nature FIRE WIND, RAIN WIND, AND GALE FORCE WIND 3 Dec 202029 Nov 2020 I haven’t heard the wind this loud for months. I lay awake thinking that a branch might fall And crush me, my wife, my car or my neighbor’s House or…
Facing the Fire Burn-scape 3 Dec 20202 Dec 2020 Fireweed, graminoids, mushrooms and morels – seed of a lodgepole pine. Black-backed woodpeckers that nest in the burned-out hollows. Fire-following beetles and the bats that follow them – all waiting…
Facing the Fire… Thoughts on Fire 2 Dec 20202 Dec 2020 By Deborah Sarbin Deborah Sarbin writes from northwestern Pennsylvania, where she teaches English at Clarion University. She began writing poetry in her fifties, after decades of reading and study.
Facing the Fire… Fire Drill (Santa Rosa, California, 2017) 2 Dec 202025 Nov 2020 At bedtime, no hint. Sky clear. Moon rising. House built like a boat. Wine Country hills a lullaby of waves. Attachments spill from small rooms— tatami mats, heirloom…
Nature Bushfire Season 1 Dec 202027 Nov 2020 (Note: Explorer 6 was the first satellite to send pictures of Earth back from space. The Curragh is a flat, grassy area of Ireland not far from Dublin). -Poem by…
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