Nature Epigram Poems

These are modern English translations of the "Xenia" epigrams written in collaboration by the German poets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, plus an...

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Death Of A Snowflake

Irony is not lost on the dying.
As falling snowflakes no two are the same.
Endless monuments to god’s creation.
They are born in winter...

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when I look at a bird
in a tree
the first thing
I notice is
its colours
are
within the lines...

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On Flowers and Bees

If you love flowers, you’ll love bees
you can’t have one without the other....

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I love shore no less, ocean more,
Skin no less, but more so the core,
Love station no less, more the drive,
Love journey more than just arrive,...

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If the market
wants to regulate your business,
your life...
Trade with nature that is free...!
Free yourself !...

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If a man can't educate his child
He teaches the same to fight!
It may as well grow up to be wild
And things may still turn out...

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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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The wind's an enigma,
a public recluse;
though 'tis said you can't catch it ~
you can sure let it loose!

H/T to Catch the Wind by Milt Hankins

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Run as fast as you can
But you cannot catch the wind
‘Twas not meant to be ~~
Even when the wind is a friend 

Written April 28,...

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mineral, vegetable, animal
the more complexity
totally and simply fatal...

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Men and women pour tons 
Of concrete, cement, asphalt, stones
The humble weeds seek the Sun
Foundation. Humans quip they won!...

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an orange betrays its true colors
GREEN when immature, its namesake when "ripe"
an apple, hides its true flavors
Green when "green" but from red passion to yellow...

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Oh, our heavenly father,
You are truly merciful to us impious humans 

For

Although we constantly your creation destroy 
You still let us, life to enjoy! 






©...

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Scientists peer in telescopes
  microscopes, periscopes
It's a marvel what they see

I've no need of their equipment
  Au Natural's enough for me...

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