Category: Nature Poetry

  • Christ

    Christ

    I found a flower on the ground,
    the only flower sprouting
    in a field of concrete.

    I called it Jesus.

    Now, every morning,
    I visit to watch the miraculous thing
    lift up the sun, marveling
    at how it pulls light into cupped leaves,
    and scatters it.

    Jesus calls it rain,
    and every day I,
    with all the creatures of the land,
    all critters crawling on cement,
    drink until well drunk.

    We watch clouds swirl into stars
    and laugh.

    Sometimes, to make us laugh some more,
    Jesus takes a seed,
    covers it with sand,
    and skips it across the night-water,
    where its reflection becomes our reflection,
    a silver joy round in endless sky.

    On those nights,
    birds eventually descend into their nests,
    dogs and cattle nestle,
    and long echoing yawns
          slip
    from the bottom of my chest
    to fill the land with sleep.

    We sleep, Jesus and I.
    We dream, Jesus and I.

    Our dreamscapes never needing concrete.
    We, never needing legs,
    with their bulky burden of muscle, bone, and flesh.

    We fly
    like fish fly sea.

    We breathe
    like fish breathe sea.

    The world is open
    and we are free
    to forget who is who,
    and what is what,
    and what the name
    of Jesus is.

    That is the sweetest thing.

    On these many flights I cry,
    and my sad and happy tears scatter—

    Until eventually I wake
    on level ground,
    with half remembered dreams
    sprouting through my heart.

  • The Woods

    The Woods

    It’s so nice here.

    I feel like a newborn in love,
    like someone looking at Sun
    with a tickled heart.

    A giddy spell
    overwhelms
    my freshly blossomed senses,
    and a shiver
    slides along the cord still connected
    to the ancient womb;

    an old laughter stirs:
    the Joy of the World. 

  • Defoliate

    Defoliate

    Sometimes I feel like a lecherous man,
    one who takes what he wants
                        then—

    I venture into Nature,
    inhale her orchid scent,
    bathe in her turquoise stream,
    and dance,
    holding her long leafy tresses in the palms of my hand.

    How I love you! I sing,
    grateful for her gifts.
    My poems
    fluttering like butterflies
                               in her expanse—
                                                                   

                            then I leave.

  • Sun Cycles

    Sun Cycles

    Another rejection.

    By the window in a coffee shop.

    Many poems don’t get published, I know.

    The setting sun is shining through the window—

    golden hour.

    It’s okay.
    I’ll keep writing.