Archive for Nature
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
