#Nature Poems

[deramin2]

The hills of LA are on fire In January When there used to be a reprieve.

The malnourished plants Are tinder dry now When water prepared them for spring.

I watched my own state on fire All summer long. Will my temperate rainforest all burn?

And now in the winter I watch firetrap canyons far to the south Suffer the same fate.

Our ecosystems need fire The first peoples guided it It lashed out at colonizers failing to stop it.

It burned in the summer Clearing the dying plants So that winter brought new life.

In the halls of power They say climate change is a hoax And yet I see the climate changing.

The hills of LA are on fire In January When there used to be a reprieve.

[edwardian-masquerade]

"If roses could talk, they would not boast of their beauty, because they know that they have always been beautiful."

-Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

Nature Poems of Longfellow

attractive art nouveau influence design covers

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[matzzblog]

It's peaceful to be alone, my own company can grant me entertainment, silence and lovely things. I don't feel lonely, the flowers that surround me, the stars high up in the sky and the moon are here for me. The nature has always been here with us, we've just been ignoring it

[gemrose]

song birds

like butterflies

flitting across silk floss blossoms

~ Meeta Ahluwalia

[stillgrowingwildflowers]

even in the dark with no moon and no stars I'd find you. my heart is a compass and you're my true north - at land or the sea as long as your heart is beating, I'd find you.

-where she grows / the lovers-

[alliwanttodoiscollectpoetry]

Izumi Shikibu (from The Ink Dark Moon)

[peonybookblog]

Guess what's out today! It's You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, which is a collection of 50 poems edited by Ada Limón that reflect on our relationship with the natural world. It looks really cool!

[gentlefauna]

1. change of state.

i’m a new poet, so please be kind. i’m trying my best.

[starmothpress]

[haveyoureadthispoem-poll]

"When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, / How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, / Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself, / In the mystical moist night-air..."

Read it here | Reblog for a larger sample size!

[edwardian-masquerade]

"I look at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world"

-"Having a Coke with You"; Frank O’Hara

[bexxthehexx]

Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf,

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day

Nothing gold can stay.

[matzzblog]

Pure evanescent dawn

I'm growing old

My eyes are no longer drawn

To the emerging mould

Pure evanescent dawn

I'm no longer sinful

Like a young fawn

I feel blissful

[hearthspeaker]

Hope Chest

death, hostile and rugged, is surely the fairest force of them all.

I have always said I'd like to be eaten by a beast, but these days, death moves creatively, making it seem to be your own fault.

So when it is my time, which I'm sure will be sooner than I realize - time and death are holding hands in the dark -

bury me in a meadow, wrapped in the family quilt that still smells like a hope chest and marry me to the earth. Cover me in cowhide and braid my hair.

tuck me in - no headstone necessary - and plant a patch of chamomile in the soil of my grave. I will smell their sweet flowers, yellow and white, and fall asleep. - c. rose smith, hearthspeaker

[stillgrowingwildflowers]

I take my new lover to the earth first to see how they love my mother do they talk with the trees do they whisper to leaves and pause to tell me about the beauty they see or do they race to the peak without blinking an eye do they trample the blooms and never look at the sky I take my new lover to the earth first to see how they love my mother because I am she and how you love her is how you'll love me

@ whereshegrows / the lovers