The Moon by Natalie Crick Schools of moths descend, Pulled in by waves of light when The fields begin to steam like horses In the cool Like the hush of rainfall After the sun’s marriage to the skies. From his window, the child can see; The young moon sulking behind the sun, Disappearing beneath the moors With a final sweep of chill. An actress on … [Read more...] about The Moon by Natalie Crick
Nature Poems
Princess by Amanda Little Rose
Princess by Amanda Little Rose There is something primal in the way she whispered winter into the rolling green meadows that were riddled with legends, and remnants of the time before Her eyes lit up the night and sprinkled starlight into moonbeams like a seed that grows into the dogwood trees by the river and beneath the gods on the mountain, Or the rolling … [Read more...] about Princess by Amanda Little Rose
Weep Willow Reeds by Konstantin Nicholas Rega
Weep Willow Reeds by Konstantin Nicholas Rega After rain the earth has forgotten where it keeps you. But I disturb my pocket and retrieve a flute from the dark hollow I have dug with greedy fingers. Bone-white, for it is bone— your bone— that I have carved to go deedle deedle dee. Day to day I sit under a tree, its branches tangled leaves overhanging and … [Read more...] about Weep Willow Reeds by Konstantin Nicholas Rega
The End of Winter by Adrian Slonaker
The End of Winter by Adrian Slonaker In the early eighties when we still believed in the coming Ice Age as much as we trusted in Pac-Man's ghostkilling capabilities, frigid Great Lakes winters were the norm, with Himalayas of snow sloping onto sinister ice patches where you could slip and split your Jordaches, if not your head. Plunging wind chills be damned, recess … [Read more...] about The End of Winter by Adrian Slonaker
Feathers in Motion by Brianna Ricotta
Feathers in Motion by Brianna Ricotta Anxiety creates a motion of feathers that creates a stifling flow in her body. And then a rush of air caught in her chest, and will not dissipate. And the shaking bird- blue jay - must soar through the hurricane that could kill the bird, yet she keeps singing. She’s heard give up - ice tones - during the stormiest … [Read more...] about Feathers in Motion by Brianna Ricotta