Need a little rest & respite? Try 10 short nature poems to delight! Includes every season: spring poems, summer poems, autumn poems and winter poems. Snow, kale, butterflies and geese — all are delightful gifts of wonder.
Day 27: Eat Artful
There’s a movement afoot to “eat ugly,” but we prefer the idea of eating artfully. After all, what could be more artful than eating what’s fragrant and healthy?
Day 3: Recipe For
Food is such a vital part of our lives. It’s important that it not become fraught with complication. Enjoy this simple strawberry poem and prompt.
Involuntary Simplicity
Sometimes the small moments announce themselves, whether you want them to or not.
Waiting for Sauerkraut: Thoughts on Inconvenience
The best things require time. Sometimes it’s hard to reconcile.
art gallery: gathering flowers — waterhouse’s pre-raphaelite paintings
Visit the Poetic Earth Month art gallery and discover serene but striking stories that artist John William Waterhouse finds in the simplest of acts — like picking flowers.
The Awl-Encompassing Philosophy
The search for a tailor’s awl for an art project becomes a meditation on the intersection of the useful and the beautiful. Buying secondhand isn’t just good for the earth, it’s good for us too.
art gallery: goldsworthy’s egg of stone on a winter afternoon
Visit the Poetic Earth Month art gallery and see the hope of stone on a winter afternoon, from the hand of landscape artist Andy Goldsworthy.
art gallery: the whimsy of the chickadee
Visit the Poetic Earth Month “art gallery” and experience the soul-satisfying whimsy of the black-capped chickadee.
Transmigration
An ethereal poem about the connectedness of past and present, as “Ghosts [thread] space between animals” and “float between silence and static.”
art gallery: summer’s last rose of sharon
Visit the Poetic Earth Month art gallery and be delighted by summer’s last Rose of Sharon, from white and magenta to antique lavender.
An Unexpectedly Old Art: Bees Wrap
I’d been enamored of the little wooden bee button for weeks, so I finally decided to try out bees wrap sandwich wraps. Beautiful! I also learned a lot more than I bargained for about the intriguing history of preservation and art.
