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.
The bee wept at its feet,
And the gospel of pollen
Spread throughout the world.
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 asked the grocer,
“Are sauerkrauts like crabs or pigs,
Or are [...]
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 appear high over us,
pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,
as in [...]
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 thunder’s scent
