Archive for Nature

1. 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 print and online in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia including in The Argotist Online, Spokes, The Bathyspheric Review; North [...]

   Nature
   
   

2. 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 to write. 
     

   Japanese Short Forms, Nature
   
   

3. LEAF-LEAVING • by Robin V. Herrnfeld 12 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 she has been trying her hand at poetry. http://www.writewords.org.uk/r_vherrnfeld/ 

   Literary, Nature
   
   

4. 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
   
   

5. 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 the morning fog,
   in the iridescent morning light,
   with the timeless dream [...]

   Nature, Other
   
   

6. 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 order. Her work has appeared or [...]

   Literary, Nature
   
   

7. 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 more time thinking about poetry than writing it. He [...]

   Nature, Other, Romance, Social Comment
   
   

8. PET PONY’S DREAM • by Mariel Newley 1 Comment

   White horses crash the waves
   Tireless, chill with sea-blood
   Untamed salt-maned mares
   Hard wild-eyed at the sand’s edge
   Black horses ride the skies
   Wind-full wings beat back the air
   Striking at lightning with lit hooves
   Red storms hot in their hearts
   Grey pony trots the shore
   Leaps seaweed, burning lungs too soon
   Cold-sprayed coat shivers
   He wants to jump the cliffs and fly
    

   Mariel Newley has been [...]

   Nature
   
   

9. SMOKING OUTSIDE • by Carol Falaki 6 Comments

   The warm air lies flat on the dusk
   as the sun pulls the last coral plume,
   to a secret place
   beyond the screen of impending darkness.
   A startled blackbird screeches for safety,
   hidden
   in a shroud, dull jade
   leaves
   breath
   quiet, at rest.
   Silently,
   across the low-growing ground,
   the soft slimy creatures of the night
   explore in the fading light.
   Gone,
   the fleeting illusion of a ghostly bat
   as midges diffuse,
   in [...]

   Nature, Other
   
   

10. PHILTER • by Caleb Warnock 2 Comments

     
    After the age of seasons has cleared
    the footprint of this neighborhood,
    native plants will poke up,
    feel the sun, and carry on conversations.

    Caleb Warnock is a journalist and teacher, and has won more than a dozen awards for writing. He has previously published poetry in the literary journal Dialogue.

    Literary, Nature, Other
    
    

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