Tag: outdoors
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Red-Winged Blackbird Haiku: Echoes of the Meadow
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A bird haiku poem about Red-winged Blackbirds as guardians of meadows, written in traditional 5-7-5 format. The post also highlights fun facts about the these beautiful birds.
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The Magic of Fall
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What is your favorite type of weather? I spend a lot of my free time in the outdoors, and there’s nothing like the fall’s weather. In Indiana, fall can last anywhere from weeks to a few months, or pretty much be skipped over entirely. Regardless, every year I love being out in the woods, enjoying…
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A Short Bird Haiku Poem About Chickadees On Feeders
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Do you love to watch birds on the feeder? What can we learn from these marvels of nature? In this post that includes a short haiku poem about black capped chickadees on feeders, you’ll discover some interesting facts about these birds as well as what we can learn from observing them.
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Short Haiku Bird Poem about Red Tailed Hawks 5 7 5
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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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A Snowy Morning in the City Poem About Winter Snow and Nature
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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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Poem About Nature, Creation, and God
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The Wonder of Creation—A Deep Nature Poem About God The Wonder of Creation I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m in love with creation – not for its own sake but for what it tells me about you. The mountains may move me, my spirit may rest in the river’s bed, and the birds of…
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Everyday Miracles – A Poem About Finding God and Contentment in Ordinary Things
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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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Nature’s Spectacle – A Poem About Morning and Dawn
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Nature’s Spectacle – A Poem About Morning and Dawn Cock crows resound, penetrate through dense clouds of moisture. Silence stirs. Nature’s alarm clock has sounded. Pellets of dew cover meadows in morning like a soggy wet blanket. Forests are brimming with life long before the sun wakes to greet the day. The creatures of morning…
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Sparrow – A Poem About Nature and God
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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
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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
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The Weeping Willow – A Poem About Nature and 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…
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I Prefer – Poem about Loving Living in the Country
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I Prefer – Poem about Country Life I prefer the pastures beyond the prairie, way back without any glimpse of home- for that’s where joy seems to find me- it’s in seclusion I feel least alone. I prefer the forest beyond the fields, where treetops shield me from the outside world, where the peaceful melodies…
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