Category: Nature Poetry

I use the leaves, wood, and stones of nature
as tools,
not to construct anything graspable by the hand,
or anything that could house a shivering body.

No, I borrow that which nature offers,
so that I can work, perhaps shoddily,
into form and substance

the sole figure of beauty,

of which all things that stir
eyes and blood
derive their essence.

Imperceptible to minds
coated in the smoke and grime
of daily life, yet somehow
I have been gifted

with a strange and undefinable sense.

I can feel beneath
the marrow of my skin, muscles, and bones
the finest brushes of this shy
yet gold gilded wind.

Its beauty overwhelms my every thought
with its slightest touch, and thus
I am shattered by awe,

and reborn time and time again.

I am wood turned into ethereal flame,
alive and compelled to spread
that which has stoked my being in full—

for beauty is not mine to keep,

and nonetheless,
it cannot be contained.

It is the air beneath the air.
It is the light within the light.
It is the dawn that inspires the bird
as it builds a nest

for which to give its song sensuous life.

On soft earth
this body of muscle and bone
dissolves

into the soil
from which all things wriggling,
scuttling, and flying
rise.

A humble beginning
for all of Heaven—
and in the end,
humility.

The whole of life
is observable in one flicker of the eye.
In a single blink
flashes sunlight and sky.
The moment, not merely the sight,
is the miracle.

Women are beautiful,
and abundant as flowers.

The intellect
does not strain to recognize
lyrical contours of face and figure,
nor is it an effort
for it to note softly blushing skin
and flashes of vibrant hair.

Nature does not make itself unknown.

But then
there is the sudden lightning
of the one woman.
She, the culminated genesis
of perfect thought, mannerism, and form.

Within an instant
your senses become a stuttering
utterly overwhelmed awe.

You have discovered Nature’s trove
veiled in obvious sunrises, mountains, and stars.

The secret blossomed in the garden.
And this is when you fall

in love.