Beauty Archives - Poetic Earth Month

art gallery: crimson & gold eggs

2023-04-13 By L.L. Barkat Filed Under: Art Gallery, Articles, Beauty, Photography, Top 4 Featured, Wonder

Visit the art gallery and enjoy these beautiful painted eggs (using natural dyes), on a vintage gold plate.

Lost Things

2022-07-25 By • Filed Under: Awe, Beauty, Ecological Grief, Flowers, Poems

Sara Teasdale can let go of the world’s loud wonders and wars, but she never wants to lose the beautiful jewelweed, laced in silver rain.

art gallery: jewelweed

2022-07-25 By L.L. Barkat Filed Under: Art Gallery, Awe, Beauty, Flowers, Meditative, Photography, Plants, Wonder

Visit the Poetic Earth Month art gallery and let the Jewelweed sing to you, sparkling with dew beside the red maples and the firs.

The Breath of the Woods

2022-04-14 By Hellen Keller Filed Under: Abundance, Awe, Beauty, Birds, Childhood Memories, Education, Flowers, Gratitude, Homeschooling, Hope, Kindness, Meditative, Nature Stories, Peace, Personal Change, Plants, Seasons, Secret Places, Transcendence, Trees, Water, Wisdom, Wonder, Woods, Young Voices

excerpted from chapter seven of The Story of My Life, by Helen Keller. The book was first written in 1902 in magazine form, while she was in college, at the age of 22 For a long time I had no regular lessons. Even when I studied most earnestly it seemed […]

A Thistle in a Greenhouse (page from the Yellow Wall-Paper Graphic Novel)

2021-01-11 By Sara Barkat Filed Under: Abandoned, Art Gallery, Beauty, Gardens, Home, Photos by Sara Barkat

The Yellow Wallpaper Thistle in a Greenhouse see more art read “Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman & “Why She Created ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ Graphic Novel” It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I […]

Morning

2020-11-09 By L.L. Barkat Filed Under: Beauty, Being a Poet, Climate, Ecopoetics, Hope, Ocean, Poems, Sea, Sun, Trees, Water

Read “Morning” ecopoem by L.L. Barkat: I have tabbed the page / of H.D.’s ‘Oread,’ / with its plea—”whirl up” / —to the sea. (…)

Autumn Leaves—A Meditative Nature Video

2020-11-09 By Sara Barkat Filed Under: Abundance, Articles, Beauty, Brain Tricks, Cities, Gratitude, Health, Hope, In Our Lives, Meditative, Peace, Personal Change, Photos by Sara Barkat, Plants, Seasons, Secret Places, Self Care, Transcendence, Videos

Attention Restoration Theory (ART) is that being in nature, and viewing green spaces, allows the brain to unwind, to notice without noticing. Enjoy this meditative nature video, a small experience of nature that can brighten your spirits, even in town.