Friday, November 29, 2019

Nature of the Earth

Nature of the Earth

A found poem

Source: The Bride's Guide To Wedding Photography


         One can see no thing as beautiful as early spring flowers, i realized shortly after sunset, falling in love. 

Once you experience the aroma and even occurrence to be savored limitations require a reality check

             Fragile buds were sprouting at the thought.                   Colorful goldfinch dive into a throng of crazed clouds.

I care to remember a statuesque, bright summer bouquet.

A fresh floral cascade will be a nice memento.

If you are in a particularly festive mood, a petal portion reward is so sentimental when it comes to amaze this most special event-

Once you have positively fallen in love with an intoxicating future that is a strength- saints be praised!

                                           




Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Lizard


One lost little lizard 


in a huge middle school courtyard 


searching for another.



Lockers shut. 

Clangclangclang.

Who are you? 



Kids gossip. 

Chatterchatterchatter. 

Who are you? 



Books fall. 

Clatterclatterclatter. 

Who are you?  



The bell rings.

                             Dingdingding.

                             Everybody leaves.

                             Stompstompstomp.



                          Who am I?                                                        

Saturday, September 7, 2019

Fire and Ice

 

          Knowing Nature 

               is back....
                  yet again....   
                        


     This blog entry started when I was talking to my dad's parents, up in Minnesota. They mentioned that they were getting some cold weather already, and meanwhile that made me think of gym class earlier, which was SO HOT!
     And that made me think of a poem I had seen when I found the Yellowstone one in my previous entry. So, here goes.

 

Some say the world will end in fire; 

Some say in ice. 

From what I've tasted of desire 

I hold with those who favor fire.🞻

But if it had to perish twice, 

I think I know enough of hate 

To say that for destruction ice       Is also great    And would suffice.    -Robert Frost


🞻Has this guy ever experienced a Florida summer?


     This poem got me thinking, so look at the predicted forecasts on Saturday, September 7, for... 
                                       

Tampa, Florida: 92 degrees Fahrenheit 

Toronto, Canada: 71 degrees Fahrenheit 

St. Paul, Minnesota: 66 degrees Fahrenheit 

Mexico City, Mexico: 76 degrees Fahrenheit 

Washington D.C.: 83 degrees Fahrenheit




     

Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Big Blue Sky

Knowing Nature is back again with poems for you!


           Many, if not all, of my loyal blog readers know that I went to Yellowstone this summer. While doing a bit of research on it, I've found some poems that I'd like to share with you.

Forget all your troubles,  forget all your cares.

And go to the park with bison and bears.

 Moose go grazing. Gray wolves stalk.

 Great elk climb, and pronghorn walk. 

Rivers flow and geysers spout. 

Fir trees rise, and lilies sprout.

 Brown trout swim and falcons fly. 

All beneath a Big Blue Sky.

-Douglas Florian

          That inspired me to create a Yellowstone poem of my own. So, here goes:

Everything is calm. 

The hot springs are flat, flat as can be. The geyser is merely a hole in the ground. 

Everything is calm. 

Then the geyser bubbles... once...twice... 

and

 it

 ERUPTS!

 A wild frenzy. shouting, awe, silence at the majesty. A scramble for photos. It shoots up far above each head. And then it's gone... 

and 

Everything

 is 

calm.




Thursday, February 14, 2019

Winter


     Knowing Nature proudly presents:Winter by Lindsay Paulson

Silvery flakes drifted downward, 
glittering in the bright light of the snow moon.
The blackbird soared.

A robin flew alone that night,
gliding over the dunes

 just out of sight.

They ducked and looped as the wind was blowing
Hoping, dreaming, for just one boon.
But they ducked and looped, never knowing.


Friday, January 4, 2019

A Chilly Surprise


Knowing Nature


A Chilly Surprise

Many of you know I recently went on a winter trip up to Massachusetts. Well, I'm coming back, and with me I'm bringing lots of info about the weather up here- and more than a couple laughs!