Archive for Nature
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HAIKU 3 • by Marion Clarke
10 Comments
last rash of snow a cobalt raven sidesteps . . . takes flight Marion Clarke is an artist and writer from Warrenpoint, on the shores of Carlingford Lough in Northern Ireland. She studied and worked in Belfast, France and, up until the year 2000, in England, where she wrote technical articles for the trade press. [...]
Japanese Short Forms, Nature, Poems
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UNTITLED • by Maire Morrissey-Cummins 15 Comments
jam making sealed in a jar summer garden Maire Morrissey-Cummins is new to writing and enjoys poetry. She has lived in Holland for many years and now lives between her home in Wicklow, Ireland and Trier, Germany. She is married with two adult children. She was born in Tramore, Co. Waterford.
Japanese Short Forms, Nature, Poems
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THE SOW • by Charles W. Kiley III 3 Comments
She had never before deigned to notice me, the great humpback sow. Not when I mixed her meal with water, so she could slurp it down. Nor ever when I tossed her a banana or two, from my own larder, for her pleasure. No, never, not even when I daubed the wounds that flies had [...]
Literary, Nature, Poems
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WAVED WHELK AND WENTLETRAPS • by Theodore E. Hovey 4 Comments
plod on the spread sand of the shore stomach-footed snail pace two pebbles per minute a child beautiful voice of oohs stoops to wonder snatch and vanish Theodore E. Hovey 73 yrs old, retired, male. Poetry, reading, photography, travel. Born and raised in Southern Wyoming. Spent four years in US Navy, forty years in [...]
Nature, Poems
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HAIBUN • by CDSinex 7 Comments
Heat lightening flashes somewhere on the horizon— A brief distraction There is something about changing seasons. After spring, summer is anticlimactic. A brief gift for having endured one more winter and just long enough to keep me here. In the garden, the deer have found the corn shoots. If they would only be patient there [...]
Japanese Short Forms, Nature, Poems
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HAIKU 1 • by Marion Clarke 21 Comments
platinum pond surface drum-skin taut water boatman beats Marion Clarke has returned to her home town in Northern Ireland after leaving for university in the 1980s. For many years, she studied and worked in Belfast, Lille, Bristol and Leatherhead, Surrey. She returned to Warrenpoint in the year 2000 with her husband, young son and soon-to-be-born [...]
Japanese Short Forms, Nature, Poems
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AFTER FROST • by Bill West 10 Comments
After frost the river slowed, then froze the trees turned white. In the morning, we laughed, blew on our fingers stumbled to the river’s edge. Ice stretched before us starry with bird tracks. We put on skates and fled upstream. Hand in hand we wove and arced, slipped and chased our faces glowed, our cheeks [...]
Nature, Other
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AUTUMN • by Fehmida Zakeer 6 Comments
bright green leaves turn orange gold flit down feather light settle with a sigh, lush trees undress overnight in response to subtle signals, cues from Mother nature night showers brush away relentless summer heat finger trails of cool winds creep in, take over daylight hours, spread a nippy blanket of delight passage of seasons earmarked [...]
Nature
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WINDSURF LESSON • by Jon M. Forceton 8 Comments
Wind across your ears, stand ready, tall astride the floating mast. Waves slow breathing, rise and fall, relax, the sail awash. Hold uphaul line, lean easy back… Glistening, the lifted sail begins to feel the breeze. Touch not boom or mast, let tethered sail fly free. Find balance first, as wind and sail conspire, orient [...]
Literary, Nature
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WINTERKILL • by William Dexter Wade 4 Comments
Little remains of Violet or her young cousin Iris Their sere bones lie undiscovered beneath the birch Itself a skeleton, bleached and accusing Their deaths go unattended Though leaves are impounded nearby And garden tools arrested Locked away in a medium security shed The graveyard lies now in the despotic grip of [...]
Humour/Satire, Nature
