Category: Nature

• Day 5

  you sought to fill me as if there was space I did not want empty; the sky holds nothing

  Jenifer

  April 5, 2015

  Love, Meditation, Muse, Nature, Tanka, Yoga

  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

• Day 1

  tree stands alone empty black branches yellow-gray field I am not afraid to come to you

  Jenifer

  April 1, 2015

  Death, Family, Memory, Nature, Seasons

  nopowrimo, poetry

• Jacksonville, Illinois

  i. Why do I think you are here with me still, taking note? I pull off the highway, end on a dirt road as usual. Strangers look long, out their way, as if destiny is known. I wish you were gone, really, truly gone, that that would sink deep in, become an organizing piece of…

  Jenifer

  March 21, 2015

  Chicago, Childhood, Death, Family, Friendship, Meditation, Memory, Nature

  poetry