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Category: Nature

Posted on May 7, 2025May 4, 2025

The World Is Drawn Anew In Color

the slow rousing of spring
color and life
sneaking up beside you

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Posted on May 6, 2025May 4, 2025

As Necessary As Joy

May rain
like the tears
that cleanse the soul

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Posted on May 5, 2025April 28, 2025

First In The Garden

to the old oak leaves
piled by the wind
spring offers a pink bouquet

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Posted on May 4, 2025April 28, 2025

Shimmering

alive again with rain
the brook a mirror
of renewal

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Posted on May 3, 2025April 28, 2025

They Bloom In A Bunch

lean in, lean in
and be transported
on the sweet scent of spring

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Posted on May 2, 2025April 28, 2025

To Sing The Colors Of Spring

the peepers of spring’s color
are the frogs
waking in the vernal pools
singing the song of frondescentia

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Posted on May 1, 2025April 28, 2025

Daffodils

first lights
in the still dark landscape
twinkling like stars

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Posted on April 30, 2025April 27, 2025

All Of The Universe Became One

the sky
sinks her toes deep
into the tender new grass

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Posted on April 29, 2025April 27, 2025

The Thorn, The Leaf And Then The Rose

the thorns eternal
and budding leaves
enduring faith in the rose

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Posted on April 28, 2025April 28, 2025

Flowering Light

like the sun
forsythia an orb of light
rising from the April lawn

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Posted on April 27, 2025April 24, 2025

Love Prevails

a few berry kisses
waited out the winter
to welcome us into spring

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Posted on April 26, 2025April 20, 2025

The Blue And Green

dear pines evergreen
the sky so ever blue
through lines of the seasons

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Posted on April 25, 2025April 20, 2025

Shadow Play

the forest tells
her ancient stories
with the shadow puppetry of leaves

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Posted on April 24, 2025April 20, 2025

Dreaming Green

the leaves and moss
the water and silt
an endless becoming

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Posted on April 23, 2025April 20, 2025

You Are Invited

milkweed pod butterfly wings
the welcome sign
for monarch caterpillars

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Posted on April 22, 2025April 20, 2025

Heading North In The Brave Little State

the green mountains
still wearing white
spring’s ascent is slow

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Posted on April 21, 2025April 14, 2025

Bubbles Become Ripples

like the pooled rain
in the newly starting grass
we are both
passing through and a part of each other

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Posted on April 20, 2025April 13, 2025

We Call It Into Being

like the crow
I’ve taken to shouting
spring, spring, spring

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Posted on April 19, 2025April 13, 2025

Spring Cleaning

moss and fern
drinking light
purifying the air

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Posted on April 18, 2025April 13, 2025

She And Her Shadow

like a splash of night
lingering on
the morning driveway

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Posted on April 17, 2025April 13, 2025

Changed But Still Open

to flow
like water over rock
through heartbreak and hardship

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Posted on April 16, 2025April 13, 2025

A Melting Stand

in the cold curve
of the river
ice draws a line
between seasons

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Posted on April 15, 2025April 13, 2025

Tulipa

a bloom forced
or better said
irrepressible

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Posted on April 14, 2025April 13, 2025

The New Tradition

first flakes
of our April blizzard
mid-sixties tomorrow

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Posted on April 13, 2025April 8, 2025

The Energy Of Spring Seen

colors gather and intensify
until they burst
into bud, blossom and leaf

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Posted on April 12, 2025April 8, 2025

Arrival

the crocus arrived
as an outpost
of hope

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Posted on April 11, 2025April 8, 2025

Echo

the dark and light
of clouds and sky
how like life
passing by

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Posted on April 10, 2025April 8, 2025

Oh April

we are so weary of your cold
but still attempt to admire
your shivering beauty

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Posted on April 9, 2025April 5, 2025

A Section Of Branch, Some Floating Lichen

in the swirl and blur of confusion
bits of clarity, be they small,
emerge as buoys

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Posted on April 8, 2025April 5, 2025

The Wind’s Flute

the woodpecker fashioned
tone and note holes
so the weather could sing

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