Category: Garden

• Day 6

  empty lanterns, with leaf-littered, winter-worn skin, dangle in the dark breeze, biding your time, doubting

  Jenifer

  April 6, 2015

  Aging, Dying, Garden, Meditation, Muse, Seasons, Tanka

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Day 4

  wind obscures all it runs through does not know its own name or mine; I give it my leaf

  Jenifer

  April 4, 2015

  Dying, Garden, Meditation, Muse, Nature, Seasons

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Day 3

  dried wheat bending, kneeling in the soft breeze open a path to deep underneath

  Jenifer

  April 3, 2015

  Dying, Garden, Meditation, Muse, Nature, Seasons

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Day 2

  crisp seed pod warmed in afternoon sun hollow now seeds scattered but one, bursting toward sky

  Jenifer

  April 2, 2015

  Aging, Death, Garden, Meditation, Muse, Nature, Seasons, Tanka

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Trying to make out the words carved into an old garden wall dug up in my backyard

  The river no longer passes here regardless how I ask, I am left to find my journey in this dark soil. Or The river no longer passes here regardless how I pray for it to return — I ache for its filthy banks. Or The river did not announce it would no longer pass here…

  Jenifer

  January 31, 2015

  Aging, Chicago, Garden, Muse, Nature

  poetry

• Another poem about a rose

  It hangs there still in the cold December air having bloomed late, and now unable to set seed. I had thought it a thing of hope when it first bloomed, white, stubborn. The dog does not follow me downstairs at this hour, her joints sore, orientation off. Alone in the gray night, uncertain in the…

  Jenifer

  December 8, 2014

  Aging, Dying, Garden, Nature, Poem sampler, Seasons

  poetry