If you need a little rest & respite,
try 10 short nature poems to delight!
These whimsical free-verse poems cover every season: spring poems, summer poems, autumn poems and winter poems. Snow, kale, butterflies and geese — all are delightful gifts of wonder.
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1
Autumn Milkweed
A thousand seeds
burst
from this rough belly,
fling themselves
to the wind…
a tumble
of silken forgetfulness.
2
Kale is
purpling,
bluing and
purpling.
3
Dogwood
wears the finest
lace, woven from
day’s departure.
4
Geese call overhead,
fading sound of
goodbye summer.
5
I shall not
miss
the mosquitoes!
6
Snow descends in dancing sheets
sparkling cloth, flung out
by a dressmaker’s hands.
7
Snow empties the sky
to a bare whiteness
but it fills me, fills me.
8
Spring’s
first butterfly—
pale yellow flutter
on the wind!
9
Yet
I remember
our walks
when I was
a child.
On no-moon
nights,
there were
yet
stars.
10
Furled leaves of wild
garlic mustard and, soon,
forsythia breakfasts!
poems from InsideOut by L. L. Barkat
