Archive for Nature

1. WINDSURF LESSON • by Jon M. Forceton 7 Comments

   Wind across your ears, stand ready tall astride the waiting mast. Waves slow breathing, rise and fall, salt air, gusts, and sun, resting sail awash.   Hold uphaul line, lean easy back. Glistening lifted sail begins to feel the breeze.   Touch not boom or mast, let tethered sail fly free. Find balance first, wind [...]

   Literary, Nature
   
   

2. 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
   
   

3. MARCH SNOW HARE • by Tyrean Martinson 7 Comments

     My beagle finds A rabbit hole. Alice, are you there?   White-etched ferns and blackberries crowd to hide the quivering hare.   Full flakes of whirling March snow fall thick on my tongue, my breath hangs quiet in the air. Tyrean Martinson lives and writes in the Northwest, and enjoys sun breaks and rainbows, [...]

   Nature
   
   

4. FINE CRYSTAL CRACKINGFROST • by S.V.Wolfland 10 Comments

     Fine crystal crackingfrost Ice bubble hanging tree Crisp air mist and Cracklefoot Water gone to glass.   Dagger-light Longslanting low sun Facets diamante on Wizened writhes Of wood.   Red berry Single drop Spike holly Prickle-shaft Blood of the season –   A gem for the thorn.     S.V.Wolfland  has published work in [...]

   Nature
   
   

5. WHITE CRYSTAL WINTER • by Rebecca Colby 8 Comments

     sugary snowflakes dissolve in hot cups of tea white crystal winter   Rebecca Colby likes the idea of being a writer but doesn’t put pen to paper as often as she should. She travelled the world as a tour director before settling in England—a country where she knew the weather would force her inside [...]

   Japanese Short Forms, Nature
   
   

6. LEAF-LEAVING • by Robin V. Herrnfeld 13 Comments

   let loose flutter-leaf drop swirl spin-on-the-wind last up-down-under through smoke-haze blue past harvest moon last settle-soft return to earth snuggle-close home   Robin V. Herrnfeld has spent most of her adult life in Germany, although American born and raised.  Always an avid reader and interested in writing, she has started writing short fiction herself. Most recently [...]

   Literary, Nature
   
   

7. ETERNITY • by Dirk D Griffin 11 Comments

   beneath stars i breathe the light of lost suns amid the dark Dirk D Griffin writes in Indiana.

   Nature, Other
   
   

8. THE BEACH • by George McKim 6 Comments

   we walk, like watercolors, on the beach on quiet sailboat afternoons in the spring months of summer the sun, the severe horizon the screened in porches with their layered enamel history on rocking chair mornings when sea oats bend over backwards to greet the tourist winds of august the shrimp boats leave the docks in [...]

   Nature, Other
   
   

9. SEPTEMBER • by Jeanne Holtzman 13 Comments

   Apples have conquered the fruit bowl. Crisp, efficient Paula Reds disdain the lone bloated plum, whose brethren slink into puddles of purple ooze and smear the hairy coat of defeated kiwis in the mass grave beneath the sink.   Jeanne Holtzman  is an aging hippie, writer and women’s health care practitioner, not necessarily in that [...]

   Literary, Nature
   
   

10. THE FOX AND THE HOUND • by G Westall 3 Comments

    you said i was your paramour so irresistable you had to chase across fields and shallow rivers catching me deep amongst the trees my fight was just flirting and i let you take a gullet of blood because you found its scent alluring the days grow cold and dim without you   G Westall spends [...]

    Nature, Other, Romance, Social Comment
    
    

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