That shoot looked like any blade of grass. Then, hearing springtime’s pitch pipe, it took a breath And tried its first colors, vocalizing softly in pink, Then lengthening its phrases into purple and yellow. The world of grass Welcomed its first flower.
Archive for the ‘nature’ Category
The Dawning
Posted in -all posts-, nature, tagged art, botany, Christ, Christian Science, Christianity, colors, floral poetry, flower poetry, flowers, holistic, holistic religion, Hope, joy, Music, nature, nature poem, nature poetry, performance, poetry, religion, spirituality, synesthaesia, the arts on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Petal Haiku
Posted in -all posts-, nature, tagged Haiku, Love, love poetry, nature poem, peaceful, poetry, sensual, sensual poem on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
petals run downstream like crescent fingers stroking the hair down your back
Heavenly Hammock
Posted in -all posts-, nature, tagged afternoon slump, bored, clouds, dreamy, nature, nature poem, nature poetry, poems, poetry, poets, random, sky, sleepy, sun poem, sun poetry, Thoughts, tired on July 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
fair-weather clouds can make a handy hammock. when the sun gets her afternoon slump, she can sink into the white fabric and shut her eyes.
Yellow Monkey Moon
Posted in -all posts-, nature, tagged monkeys, moon, nature poem, night, night sky, poem, poetry, poets on June 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The yellow monkey moon jumped up into the shady tree, trailing its long blue tail all the way to the ground.
Golden Book Video Logo
Posted in -all posts-, nature, tagged '90s, 1990s, clean slate, dawn, fresh start, God, Golden Book Video, Golden Books, nature poem, new hope, poem, poetry, poets, pop culture, redemption on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
While it was still dark, God’s book opened, And out fanned the yellow pages, And out rose the sun.
Moon
Posted in -all posts-, nature, tagged Magnetic Poetry, moon, moon poem, moon poetry, nature poem, nature poetry, poem, poetry, poets on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
the moon coasts dream-like fish-like
Sauerkraut
Posted in -all posts-, nature, tagged bored, boredom, food, Humor, Kosher, pathetic, poetry, random, sauerkraut, stupid, vegetables on June 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve never seen a sauerkraut In all my twenty years. I’ve always pictured some brown cat With porcupine-like spears. I think it’s smaller than a dog And bigger than a flower, But don’t know why it’s called a kraut Or what makes it taste sour. I’m Gentile, but I keep the Law. I went and [...]
Berry: The Wild Geese
Posted in -all posts-, nature, tagged death, earth, ecosystem, environment, epicurean, epicureanism, Faith, Heaven, living in the present, nature, nature poem, paradise, philosophy, religion, the present on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Horseback on Sunday morning, harvest over, we taste persimmon and wild grape, sharp sweet of summer’s end. In time’s maze over fall fields, we name names that went west from here, names that rest on graves. We open a persimmon seed to find the tree that stands in promise, pale, in the seed’s marrow. Geese [...]
Haiku
Posted in -all posts-, nature, tagged cosmos, earth, environment, five senses, Haiku, natural, nature, poem, poet, poetry, poets, senses, sensual, sensuality, synesthaesia, universe on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I fell madly in love with this one and wrote some of my own. 1. when two asteroids have a head-on collision, both of them see stars 2. Water in the sky Silky screen between two worlds Sky in the water 3. Synesthaesia write the air’s good looks sniff the song of swallowtails paint the [...]
