Archive for Nature
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FINE CRYSTAL CRACKINGFROST • by S.V.Wolfland
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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
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WHITE CRYSTAL WINTER • by Rebecca Colby
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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
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LEAF-LEAVING • by Robin V. Herrnfeld
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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
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ETERNITY • by Dirk D Griffin
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beneath stars
i breathe the light
of lost suns
amid the darkDirk D Griffin writes in Indiana.
Nature, Other
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THE BEACH • by George McKim
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we walk, like watercolors, on the beach
Nature, Other
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 [...]
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SEPTEMBER • by Jeanne Holtzman
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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.
Literary, Nature
Jeanne Holtzman is an aging hippie, writer and women’s health care practitioner, not necessarily in that order. Her work has appeared or [...]
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THE FOX AND THE HOUND • by G Westall
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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
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PET PONY’S DREAM • by Mariel Newley
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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
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SMOKING OUTSIDE • by Carol Falaki
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The warm air lies flat on the dusk
Nature, Other
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 [...]
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PHILTER • by Caleb Warnock
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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

