Nature Deer Poems

My heart beats in my ear
I hear my happiness I hear my fear
This steady sound is like a drum
And is beating now so I hum

To...

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This December day that feels like March or April
Beckons me down to my old thoughtful spot
To the bench on the hill above the lake
Where I...

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I must be walking
closer to death
for spirits of the forest
are stalking me
visiting with curious hope
like ghosts from the past
talking to me as kin
as familiars wooing...

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gunshots ring out loud
fields trampled by running deer 
mass graves along roads...

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gunshots ring out loud 
the woods shakin by nature 
escaping their fate...

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I sit, unblinking. If I am still enough, I become part of the story

My breath falls into the rhythm of the whispering leaves, speaking poetry...

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battle between bucks
	deadly duel-decided ~
		scavengers spectate

(November Full Moon – Dakota and Lakota)...

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Born as an Eagle, I know how to ride the wind
Born during the time of the Deer, I long to roam
Born to learn patience, and...

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I move as my soul moves... 
I sway with the tides, 
and drift along the shores... 
I soar over valleys with the wind, 
and run...

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snow blankets the ground
sun is glaring down by noon -
deer cavort in streets

April 6, 2023
for Tania Kitchin's A New Nature Themed Haiku Poetry Contest

(a weird...

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a deer family
rests in a snowy forest . . . 
          an owl hoots nearby


_____________________
December...

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In antler duel
                      ...

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arduous ascent
	incandescent massive orb –
		buck tosses his head...

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Epigrams VII

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: 
am I or are the others crazy?
—Albert Einstein, poetic interpretation by Michael R. Burch


The Whole of Wit
by...

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deer

 baby deer wet lawn 
 nature feeds the new born fawn…
 winter comes grass gone

  04-10-2022...

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