Category: Nature

• Day 21

  rain baptizes the yard, field, streets, river from winter’s hold opening the frightened ground flowing through it and forward

  Jenifer

  April 21, 2015

  Art, Garden, Meditation, Memory, Nature, Seasons

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Day 20

  sawing away branches that died over winter unnoticed until others blossomed out

  Jenifer

  April 20, 2015

  Aging, Dying, Garden, Meditation, Memory, Nature

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Reserve time

  Reserve time for poetry in April, for when the days get longer, we turn out after our deep hermitage, rushing too fast to learn from the budding world. Reserve time for poetry in July when the hammering sun tempts you to spend your best hours dozing, as the herons skim the river. Reserve time for…

  Jenifer

  April 19, 2015

  Art, Childhood, Family, Graduation, Meditation, Muse, Nature, Work life, Yoga

  NaPoWriMo, poetry

• Day 13

  it is still the daffodil, taking for granted all the space it needs, assuming its own beauty

  Jenifer

  April 13, 2015

  Art, Meditation, Muse, Nature, Seasons, Yoga

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Day 11

  white bird flickers through tree branches, landing low, behind rusted fence onto the unseen river

  Jenifer

  April 11, 2015

  Dying, Garden, Meditation, Muse, Nature, Seasons, Yoga

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Day 8

  daffodils unfold stretching pedals to endless evening sky; breathing deep, shoulders unwind, arms reach wide across earth

  Jenifer

  April 8, 2015

  Childhood, Garden, Love, Meditation, Muse, Nature, Seasons, Yoga

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka