Wings Call of the Wind 30 Sep 202318 Sep 2023 The woman had the strength of hawk, thick clay from the river bank in her feet. Her arms reached to the sky, powerful and purposeful, stretching out like wings while…
Nature Desert Melody 28 Sep 202321 Sep 2023 Glowing like tiny tangerine suns, splashing the desert landscape with bursts of citrus hues, as if they were creamsicles melting in the summer heat, swept up into ice cream truck…
Nature Blue Convertible 27 Sep 20235 Oct 2023 A blue convertibleslots its waythrough flowering plantsdown an overgrown forest road. I see, in twilight, mere instancesnormal to the blood:games, war, art, my limbsquartered, re-attached. Makes me wonder, why limbs?I…
Nature Dandelion Cinquain 26 Sep 20233 Sep 2023 lionssuddenly springup in dance pushing updirt with yellow heads tremblingdandy Barbara A Meier Barbara A Meier moved home to Kansas, where she cherishes the fields of wheat and sorghum, little…
Nature Eventide 25 Sep 20233 Sep 2023 “You can trust people with grief,”she says, piecing together a bouquetof bee balm and blueweed.My fingers pick at heads of sea lavenderI carry through tides. Rushing sand scuffs the backs…
Nature A Haiku Bouquet 24 Sep 20233 Sep 2023 A delicate nudeDaisy opens to the worldVulnerably brave Yarrows bright yellowNature’s love poems for spring:An anthology Blue sky blushesSpicy tender-lipped kissesFrom scarlet poppies Black-eyed SusanTangoing with butterfliesA golden chorus Silver-haired…
Nature Bluebonnet Memory 23 Sep 20233 Sep 2023 On a cold sunny March day,Mom bundled my brother and me into our jackets,into the ’55 Hudson, jade green,then ran back in for the camera.From behind the wheel,Dad reached for…
Nature Flame’s Return 22 Sep 20233 Sep 2023 In March I hankerfor the fireweed huddledin packed, frozen ground.Like a red robin,my ear imagines stirrings,a humming refrainbeckoning green growth.Tapping taproot, forked and branched.A first sip of tea,I want to…
Literary Owl Nature Writer Voyage of the Young Blue jay 21 Sep 202318 Sep 2023 The young jay will soon leave the nest Leaving behind his grasp of comfort and safety Entering into the unknown ambition and wonder Of far-reaching adventure He'll take off in…
Nature as they arrive 21 Sep 20233 Sep 2023 oh daffodils!words of Wordsworththe only cuethe yellow trumpetsin graceblow the tunesfor the snowto disappearas the spring arrives Kamakshi Lekshmanan Kamakshi Lekshmanan arrived home through her forest and mountain trails. Poetry…
Nature Prairie Promise 20 Sep 20233 Sep 2023 If you stand where the two paths cross,you’ll see bumblebees on Bergamot,blue dragonflies riding tall grasses,Black-eyed Susans swaying in the wind. Hold very still to feel heat rise,cocoon you in…
Nature Clever Little Green Thing 19 Sep 20233 Sep 2023 Wildflower. Bifurcated,heart shaped,with an appealing taper.You grow on the outskirts(and under the skirts)of the Labrador Violetsyou mimic. Lynne Shapiro Lynne Shapiro lives in Hoboken, New Jersey with her husband and…
Nature This Spring 18 Sep 20233 Sep 2023 this spring I’ll only sow wildflowersnothing ediblenothing usefulnothing productivenothing that needs my attention or my effortnothing that needs tending or staking or potting or weeding or cutting or trimmingnothing that…
Nature An Unknown Family of Flowers 17 Sep 202317 Sep 2023 Their heads are enchantingly unblue,like the aftermath of a war between a white sock and inky blue topor the fresh hello of snow, the over-confident bleach spoton an old pair…
Nature Moonlit Marsh 16 Sep 20233 Sep 2023 Moonlight trickled throughoaks, elms, and sweetgumsdressed in bright mossy skirts ofmalachite-colored sequins. Yellow and orange-red tubular flowersof cross vine adorned their trunks.Tree limbs swayed to sustained winds,clattered with crescendo gusts.…
Nature Morning Glory 15 Sep 20233 Sep 2023 walk with me into sacred woods show me the way through deserts I take you up this woodland path you find our way to water I point out vines and…
Nature Three Maine Haiku 14 Sep 20233 Sep 2023 Along Route 1Coastal route borderedby tall glories of lupines:The way June should be. Irish SpringA stroke of Spring’s bowunfurls fiddleheads fancyin jig of green joy. You’ll Nev-uh Be a Maine-uhInvasive…
Nature Comfort Mugunghwas 13 Sep 20233 Sep 2023 Oh Mugunghwas, how do you bloom,Your heart so pure they too assumed,They took your joy, your sweet soft nectar,They took your stems and leaves so tender,They took your sun but…
Nature Skunk Cabbage 12 Sep 20233 Sep 2023 More colorful than my namesake.Less odor. Shunned despite deep butter-yellowshinting at sunflower fields, my central flower shieldedby furled green leaves. As medicine, best to avoidmy bitter roots without the required…
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…
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