Tag: nature
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Short Haiku Poem About Kingfisher Bird 5 7 5
A post that includes a bird haiku about the belted kingfisher (5-7-5) and also highlights facts about the bird, a personal reflection, the symbolism of the kingfisher, and what we can learn from nature’s beautiful bird.
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Short Haiku Bird Poem about Red Tailed Hawks 5 7 5
A short bird haiku poem about red tailed hawks, 5 7 5. This modern haiku portrays the predatory nature of the hawk and the special features of this falcon. The post also contains some interesting facts about the bird.
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Sowing Poem About Embracing Yourself and Individuality
SowingTo harvest you must first sow,or you’ll end up in a fallstanding in a field of weedsregretting doing nothing with the seedsyou held in spring.Change comes slowly,rarely over night.Take delight in cultivatingyour corner of beauty in the world.For no other garden containsthe species of flowers you grow.So sow.Sow what you know.Sow the seeds that make…
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Like the Birds in Spring – A Love Poem For Her
Like the Birds in SpringA Love Poem For HerI’ll follow you like the birds in springflapping their wings wherevertheir mate goes across an endless sky.Tweeting a tune of sweet replywhenever your heart calls me.I fly to you because your nest is my home.Roamed restlessly until you beckoned meand assured me I wasn’t perching on this…
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Silence Speaks Poem About Listening in Nature
Silence Speaks Poem About Listening in Nature Silence comes swiftly with the sudden breeze quietly untangling the mind and piercing the restless heart. The rustles of the leaves in the trees let light fall like raindrops each time nature’s canopy is shaken. There’s a presence here unnameable, indescribable, ancient and older than the tallest oak.…
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A Snowy Morning in the City Poem About Winter Snow and Nature
A Snowy Morning in the CitySnowflakes fall in silencefluttering down from the skylike feathers after a pillow fightin the heavens,coating rooftops in layers of white,quickly burying black asphaltand blurring the sightof human hands upon the land.The branches of pines and spruceshave been dipped in sugar.The mighty trunks of the oaksfrosted with icing.What a delicious dessert…
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Autumn – Love Poem For Her
Autumn Lovely as the leaves decorated in their colorful clothes in the midst of October, brisk and crisp as the breeze that electrifies and blows at September’s closure, and mystifying as the spells of magic that cover the forest in fall; it’s no wonder I fell and never wanted another – my forever love, my…
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Woman – A Love Poem For Her
Woman – A Love Poem For Her You are like the waves lapping against the shore –Repetitive, seductive, intoxicating, cleansingLike holy water that wrings out the darkness. I sit unceasingly upon the sands of timeWaiting for the rise of your tide,To feel your waters once more by my side.Staring off into the drab, gray horizon,I…
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Like the Summer Wind – A Poem
Like the Summer Wind – A Poem I yearn for you like the summer wind – vast, cool, refreshing upon my cheek; a shelter to soothe beneath the furnace of life’s heat. Your character radiates and pierces through the layers of lust surrounding my heart, pushing foolish desires aside; shredding selfishness apart. Your faith is…
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Everyday Miracles – A Poem About Finding God and Contentment in Ordinary Things
Finding Miracles in Everyday Life Nature has so many miracles lurking in the ordinary. We can find so many miracles in everyday life–we just have to learn to pay attention and be mindful which is hard to do in the modern world with so many distractions and with how fast paced life has become. But…
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I Want To Walk With You – A Poem
I Want To Walk With You – A Poem I want to walk with youOut through the cornfieldsWhere the dried up stalksAnd brittle husks flutter in the cool wind.I want to take your handAnd venture down the rowsThe combines have cut,Corn kernels crunching beneath our feet,And make our way to where field and forest meet,Where street…
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Feathers On the Feeder – A Poem About Birds
Feathers On the Feeder – A Poem About Birds Carefree and playful like a child, Your wings flutter in the autumn breeze. You crack open your seeds with supreme diligence, Wrapped up in the gift of the present moment. If only I could be more like you – Unaware of the future, Unaltered by anxieties…
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Sparrow – A Poem About Nature and God
Sparrow – A Poem About Nature and God A house sparrow is busy outside my window Gathering bits of grass in his beak – Supplies needed for this year’s nest. Some biological impulse is pushing him, Performing actions he doesn’t even understand, An invisible hand directing his reason. It doesn’t take microscopes, telescopes, or theories…
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The Writer and the Wild – A Poem About Nature and Writing
The Writer and the Wild – A Poem About Nature and Writing White winged wonder wandering, wobbling west beside water. Flitting feathers flying – flocks fleeing for fields of gold. Sun shinning. Stream shimmering. Chinook salmon swimming, spawning sacks, spewing semen. Man musing merrily, mindfully mapping manuscript In a mad, maniacal manner. -Poem Written by…
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The Weeping Willow – A Poem About Nature
The Weeping Willow – An Environmental Poem About Trees The forests and fields are fading, Replaced by cookie cutter houses and pleasure centers. Quick! Get a glimpse of the soil As it’s tilled one last time, Before it’s fruit is forever sealed beneath concrete, Whose paved arms don’t let us sink in, But stand firm…
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A Poem About Sunrise and Morning – Dawn
Dawn – A Poem About the Break of Day The fluttering of a thousand wings flap and fill the sky – blackbirds and geese fly to unknown destinations. The cool dew of morning runs down the grasses’ backs, gathering upon the soil. A misty fog hovers beneath the trees and the sun begins peaking out…
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The Cardinal – A Poem
The Cardinal – A Poem Scarlet red against the snowy white, I see you at the feeder munching on sunflower seed. You do not know me. But I know you. I’ve watched you from the window-sill, perched upon the feeder, cracking seeds open with your beak in the early morning winter, ruffling your feathers to…
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Dealing With Winter – Learning From Nature
The temperatures are already putting me in a bad mood, and even though we’ve only had one snowfall, I’d say I’ve had about enough for the year. It is way too early to be already having blistering temperatures in the middle of November in Indiana. I do have a tendency to suffer from SAD (Seasonal…
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