Tag: nature

  • Crickets by Stephen Spotte

    Crickets by Stephen Spotte

    Falling, cartwheeling through that single plane, the dimensions in which we could see were limited. At your call we had risen from the table and rounded the corner into the foyer. Your descent had already begun. Because we arrived perpendicular to the stairway and underneath the highest part we saw…

  • Remembering Spring Before a Winter’s Heart Cries Nevermore: An Ode to William Wadsworth by Edward Ziegler

    Remembering Spring Before a Winter’s Heart Cries Nevermore: An Ode to William Wadsworth by Edward Ziegler

    The sun will always rise to fallLike a thousand times before,To shine on lamb white meadowsAnd caress the morning shore. And robins will always return to sing,Winging valleys aflame with greenWhen their melody breaks the April mistsAnd rosebuds can be seen. And blossoms will always burst with joy,With a hue…

  • Columbine, Will You Be Mine? by Douglass Allen

    Columbine, Will You Be Mine? by Douglass Allen

    My cultivated garden grows, seeds in rows,Gently tendered, watered, sun enough and earth—Daisy, hollyhock, delphinium, andColumbine—will you be mine?Blessed flowers, blessed birth. I’ve grown discouraged, bummed out, glum.Flowers should enchant, delight, so—Tell me the flaw― my failed green thumb?Germination yes, but oh, oh no! From someone so upset, chagrin—Let me…

  • Carmenere by Matthew Hunt

    Carmenere by Matthew Hunt

    I want to taste the golden sunThat sits so cold on this high unending plainAnd over the multivariate earthIts rays to soils unlightened bearThe sweet, lost dreams of stars afar.Is it possible to seeFrom this sliver, this crescent scratch of ground,Wherein our habitat moments pass,The snows that never melting lieIn…

  • The Sun Awakens by Daniel Dischino

    The Sun Awakens by Daniel Dischino

    Insecure as I amI need to hold on to something So I grab on to my sense of insignificanceas a race car drivergrips the steering wheel on a hairpin turn I have seen mountainsand climbed them An insect on a seaside boulder and sunrise brings the mountains to light A…

  • Willow Tree by Isabel Cheeseman

    Willow Tree by Isabel Cheeseman

    ancient arms relaxed and gracefulher elegant canopy grazes the ground,her shaggy branches weep into an arch sacred and solitary giantshe bends to accommodate and withstand,a calculated composition with supple extremities appears to be sorrowful, heartsickweeping with her slender leaves butshe is calm, serene as she flows in the breeze Isabel…

  • Botanizing by Jim Bates

    Botanizing by Jim Bates

    Two brothersWandering hills and fieldsBreathing the rarefied airWalking through deep woodsVerdant and greenTromping across meadow grassFragrant with wildflowersThey stop along the wayField books handyIdentifying what they observeMeadow rue and sweet cicelyWhite daisy and prairie blue stemThey are botanizingTaking time to step awayTo commune with a wilder placeAmong the white aster…

  • A Pond Discovery by John Grey

    A Pond Discovery by John Grey

    The pond is almost hiddenin thick rushesbut I spy the periscopeof an egret head,hear the rattling cryof a kingfisher.There are no secretsfrom the eyes and ears. It’s wider and deeperthan I expected.Enough to interesta merganser pair.Enough amphibian mating callsto form a belching choir. Fish, too tiny to name,slither about the…

  • The Haunting Tree by Josh Poole

    The Haunting Tree by Josh Poole

    Fleeting leaves of haunting treesGhosts of August goneFall to despair upon its kneesTo whisper winter’s song. Your soul trampled beneath my shoesYour heart bare of breastFor your last dirge winter blowsAnd at last falls out your nest. Dead to me the bird that’s flownTo finer trees in finer placesIt cracks…