Category: Nature Poems

Refinishing the Round Oak Table by William Doreski

Refinishing the round oak table
refinished twenty years ago
I stroke the grain so gently
the pattern gets under my skin.

Just relax,

The numbness hits first;

my whale self floats
as mountains
crouch underneath

Light, please initiate me into your
occult philosophy. Tell me where
you come from when you penetrate
a dusty window in the morning and

No taller than my knee
when you challenge
your first ocean.

Child at Tobacco Market by Charlotte Matthews Nights I go looking for the whippoorwill but she’s not to be found,

2 a.m. by Michael Pacholski so still a hummingbird fluttered only once in its sleep and was hushed by nest-neighbors

Twin blossoms bowed
by the weight of white beauty

Under a Daylight Moon by Mary Rogers-Grantham At noon, a woman plants lilies. She hums, as if expecting someone to

Night’s Brilliance by Dabir Ahmed Shaikh Stream of consciousness flows on, stars smile on Forms shapes, smiles flit on. Desires