HAIKU Sleepy maple trees dropping crisp scarlet treasures fall’s jeweled carpet 12/11/99 Phyllis DeWitt-VanVleck
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A Haiku, better late than never
Posted in haiku, Nature, Poetry, tagged carpet, jewels, maple, scarlet, treasures, trees on Saturday,December 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Beauty of Nature
Posted in Nature, Poetry, Rhyming, tagged beauty, columbine, daisies, lupin, meadows, mountains, paintbrush, sunflowers, tendrils, trees, trillium, violets, wild, woods on Thursday,July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BEAUTY IN THE WILD In the mountains and the meadows There’s beauty to be seen, And even in the fringe of woods Bright colors mix with green. There is lupine and arbutus Growing near the trees, With some yellow-centered daisies Swaying in the breeze. Abundant scarlet paintbrush, Violets dressed in blue, There’s columbine and trillium, [...]
Homage to nature
Posted in Inspirational, Nature, Poetry, Rhyming, tagged beauty, columbine, coneflower, flowers, stars, sunflowers, trees, woods on Wednesday,July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BEAUTY IN THE WILD In the mountains and the meadows There’s beauty to be seen, And even in the fringe of woods Bright colors mix with green. There is lupine and arbutus Growing near the trees, With some yellow-centered daisies Swaying in the breeze. Abundant scarlet paintbrush, Violets dressed in blue, There’s columbine and trillium, [...]
A frosty hand rattled my door
Posted in ecology, Nature, Poetry, tagged forest, frost, icy, ponds, rhyming, snow, trees, winter on Wednesday,October 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
WINTER’S ARRIVAL Winter stretched forth a frosty hand Last night it rattled my door Hills now sleep under ermine robes As does the forest floor Filigree patterns frost my panes With beautiful white fronds Icy mufflers hug river banks And small cattle ponds Roofs lie snug under snowy coats [...]
Where Have all the Trees gone?
Posted in Poetry, tagged birch, birds, blossoms, branch, butterflies, fruits, grove, lullaby, Nature, nectar, oak, rain, scenic, snow, squirrels, tapestry, trees, trunk, view, wildlife, willows, wounds on Monday,October 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »
NATURE AS IT USED TO BE There used to be a tapestry Of nature’s verdant artistry A hill where trees and wildlife grew But now it’s gone from scenic view Replaced by station and a shed Both, painted blue and garish red Like bleeding wounds upon the earth Replacing years of ancient birth [...]
These are the Things I love
Posted in Animals, ecology, Family, friends, Inspirational, love, Memories, My Thoughts, Nature, Poetry, World, tagged America, children, Family, flag, flowers, frost, God, hugs, kittens, lanes, laughter, leaves, moonbeams, rain, rhyming, shade, streams, train, trees, whistle on Saturday,August 30, 2008 | 5 Comments »
THINGS I LOVE The laughter of a little child Timid creatures of the wild Lilac scent on wafting breeze And summer shade beneath the trees A lonesome whistle in the night From some big train way out of sight Bright butterflies and lady-bugs And joy felt from children’s hugs Birds in [...]
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