Moonshadows
I will
Always find time
On leafless winter nights
Or hot and humid summer ones
To dance
A Cinquain poem.
March 7, 2023
Tag: Nature
November 18, 2021
You’re interesting
Alluring, mysterious
You’re my morning fog
A haiku
A metaphor poem
October 26, 2021
My Bedroom Windows Are Never Closed
My bedroom windows are never closed
I won’t miss a moment of nature
Every season full of sights and sounds
My blanket layers always in flux.
Spring brings the early birds’ dawn chorus
April showers and peepers return
Vixens cry for their mates in the dark
My bedroom windows are never closed
Lightning bugs blink against summer screens
Katydids sing from oak tops at night
Cicada buzz loudly fills warm days
I won’t miss a moment of nature
Great horned, barred and screech hoots fill fall nights
Sun rises reveal jewel-toned forest
Southbound Canada geese honk above
Every season full of sights and sounds
Woodpeckers tap winter’s leafless trees
Moon shadows dance from a clear night sky
Woodstove heat meets snowflakes drifting down
My blanket layers always in flux.
A cascade poem
April 12, 2021
Early hour thunderstorm
Lightening
Fills darkness like a
Flicked switch
I am reminded of my insignificance
As thunder quakes my home foundation to peak
January 20, 2021
Loop Trails
Starting and ending in the same place
Everything new along the way
Views from many directions
Nothing revisited
Surprises around
Each new bend yet
The end is
Still the
Same
January 18, 2021
Point-to-Point Trail
Traveling in just one direction
No retracing or revisits
Only one chance for success
Every obstacle new
Just one perspective
Discovering
Half of life
As you
Move.
April 30, 2020
Success(ion)
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A seed lands, crack expands
Roots making life from hard rock
Water feeds new plant needs
In the shade of a great hemlock
Boulder becomes mineral crumbs
Roots, rock, rain in wedlock
Through sun and storms new soil forms
The tale of a forest epoch.
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A Naturette Poem. A poetry form I invented to write about a tiny detail of nature.
The 8-line poem has the following rhyme scheme and syllable count:
6AA
8B
6CC
8B
6DD
8B
6EE
8B
February 20, 2020
Lichens
A pale green glossy sheen
With some rough patches here and there
Foliose, Fruticose
Living symbols of good clean air
Dwell on boles and phone poles
Employing support anywhere
Algal fused with fungal
Look for them nearly everywhere
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Naturette
8 lines with the following rhyme scheme and (syllable count) about small finds in nature.
AA(6)
B (8)
CC (6)
B (8)
DD (6)
B (8)
EE (6)
B (8)
January 8, 2020
Liquidambar styraciflua
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Snow boots near spiky fruits
Seeds far from the capsules by now
Dropped in turds spread by birds
Away from the blades of a plow
Just the shell where it fell
After tumbling from a bough
debris under a tree
But still helping with life somehow
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Naturette
8 lines with the following rhyme scheme and (syllable count) about small finds in nature.
AA(6)
B (8)
CC (6)
B (8)
DD (6)
B (8)
EE (6)
B (8)
July 30, 2019
Eastern Black Swallowtail Caterpillar
Papilio polyxenes asterius
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On slender stalk
Prolegs prop the pudgy
Dill demolisher
Fennel finisher
Carrot cruncher
Celery savorer
These fleshy stubs stick to stems
Enabling efficient eating and
Methodical mandible munching
In a day’s duration
Leaving nothing but a stark stripped stem
Upon which perches a plump pre-pupa.
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An Alliteration Poem
A Picture and a Poem 