Tag Archives: nature poems

meanwhile the moon 

Posted on May 5, 2023 by whimsygizmo

fancies herself a flowerin a field of star -seeds, (growing)                 glowingfrom the soil of sky.  ::

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counting all joy 

Posted on April 12, 2022 by whimsygizmo

Casting shadows on the winter sky as you stood there counting crows one for sorrow, two for joy…–Counting Crows  Everything counts in large amounts. – Depeche Mode  :: ponder petals, see how they wave in praise.  calculate cloud dragonsin their drunken-sky haze.  keep a … Continue reading →

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for your consideration 

Posted on April 9, 2022 by whimsygizmo

(a nonet) :: let’s ponder the way the sunlight slantsthe rush and hush of breeze in trees a bumblebee’s mumbled songa dragon-cloud passing a cobalt bowl skysunflower hope; the proof that keeps us wild.  :: Day 9 for NaPoWriMo.

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with toes in stream 

Posted on November 10, 2021 by whimsygizmo

,the world just seems a kinder place, a gentle grace of moon-spill murmured song.  our feet a-swim, we pebble stories, rebel glories; bid our lungs to hum along.  :: In November, we poem.

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The Princesses Finally Rage Quit {And Form a Nature Society}

Posted on April 22, 2021 by whimsygizmo

You might find them in the woods, if you can get past the nymphs (who are on their side). They only want the  kiss of breeze, the romance of trees, the squeeeee of mud-lucious squish between unadorned toes. They’re done  with spells and slippers and … Continue reading →

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have you met

Posted on April 8, 2021 by whimsygizmo

  -a four? the sun’s a butterscotch candy on hungry tongue. those stars are pinpricks; the sky’s a scrim, the moon its door.   meant this five?  waggling fingers in song, stacking words to walls; palming psalms and silence. her head a cloud, her heart a poem.  all that’s … Continue reading →

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barefoot and be-longing

Posted on April 24, 2020 by whimsygizmo

, she talks to frogs and speaks the braille of trees, fills her hands with the wispy ghosts of clouds and sings out loud in cobalt blue and pine-pressed green. these things, they save her. they steep her deep in … Continue reading →

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murmur stone

Posted on January 14, 2020 by whimsygizmo

    A second Quadrille offering, created at magnetic poetry. 

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Poem for a grackle {left on an olive leaf}

Posted on April 22, 2019 by whimsygizmo

.. What a relief for you to caw me your truth, written in -visible ink on this ridiculous sky.   .. In April, we poem.     

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Lake of the Sky

Posted on April 5, 2017 by whimsygizmo

.. When you slip on ……..your cobalt best, …………..I find myself on your shore. There are small kingdoms ……..here, sandcastles of …………..my own small making. Do you see the geese ripple ……..your surface? They etch …………..a new language – I … Continue reading →

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