Tag: Nature

June 9

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Positivity is the buzz word

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The mosquito is annoying

And there is no doubt about it

Perhaps we can live without it

With my patience they are toying

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Masters of camping destruction

The mosquito is annoying

Being out I’m not enjoying

To avoid I need instruction

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Surprisingly they do some good

Repellent I am deploying

The mosquito is annoying

Helping frogs into adulthood

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I’ll think twice before destroying

Assisting with pollination

Now I say with hesitation

The mosquito is annoying

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(A Viator Poem)

June 7

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Cataract

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Water falls down

Gray and brown rocks

The sound roaring

Never boring

It’s pouring new spring rainfall

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Summer brings drought

Drying out falls

Throughout hot days

Shining grays dull

Sluiceways no longer noisy

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Icy cascade

Snow pack made fluid

Rocks fade under flow

Landing below

Where slow trickle brings new life.

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(A Yadu Poem)

May 29

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Home Sweet Home

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Carolina wrens made a nest

Decided a tin can is best

To raise their brood

Now a bird house, not a tool shed

A place for songbirds to rest their heads

I provide food

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Nest made of needles, leaves and moss

Tucked in next to the semi-gloss

Speckled eggs rest

Building’s been there less than a year

And these birds made it very clear

This shed is best.

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(A Rime Couee Poem)

May 11

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Give Geese a Chance

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Some people think these geese a pest

Going so far to raid their nest.

Now I know they can be a pain

And if they’re around folks complain.

Honking, eating, pooping machines causing a stink

Need to be eradicated some people think.

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Give geese a chance, stop and observe

At one time we tried to conserve

These special V-flying creatures

With distinct black and white features.

Living two decades, long flyers, long time romance

Good parents who care for the weak, give geese a chance.

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(A Wrapped Refrain Poem)

May 9

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Night Fliers

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Flattened against the house wall

Moths appear on warming nights

Electric duping instinct

Hunkered under bright porch lights

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Not dull or boring at all

Butterflies with evening flight

Flecked, ruffled each one distinct

Look closely, they will delight.

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(A Jueju Poem – Qijue Form)

May 7

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Wildflower Wander

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With my sweetheart Wandering winded along a

Winding wooded path of

Waving wild flowers in the

Warming weather without

Worry and wearing wonder welcoming the

Wisdom of this wildflower wilderness and

Woodland with towering white oak.

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(A Tongue Twister Poem)

May 1

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Services

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Church and me ain’t never been close

Nature is my spiritual house

My fellows bugs and tree and mouse

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I find the rhetoric morose

Jack in his pulpit speaks to me

Where he stands is where I’ll be

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Frankly I avoid the pathos

Marigolds are my church choir

Passion flower is the friar

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I don’t get the religiose

Assumption lilies are my text

And crown of thorns guide what’s next

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There’s no need for the grandiose

Soft lady’s mantle comforts me

Where nature preaches I will be.

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(A Constanza Poem)

April 30

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Blue hole in a gray sky

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Why did the gray clouds

Open to reveal blue skies

We don’t see anywhere else?

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The lonely jack sighed

Wishing to play in the sun

Mother said “Dear, it shall come.”

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(A Mondo Poem)

This collaborative poem was written with CJF who answered my question to him.

April 28

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Don’t Judge

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Is that purple violet a weed?

No, Indeed!

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Is the dandelion a pest?

Surely you jest!

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What do I see in these beauties?

Precious cuties!

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Let’s stop being so plant snooty

Stop judging every small flower

Without knowing its great power

No indeed, surely you jest! Precious cuties!

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(An Ovillejo Poem)