Mother Nature Poems

Pensively promended I, as impetuous as a poet
To accumulate few jocund inkling on dusk

For sure, not as a bard
But,as a novice to nature

Stalked I, bare-footed...

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My English translation of "Hai Ma" by W. S. Rendra, a son to his mother and soulmate.

HAI MA ("HI MOM")
by W. S. Rendra
translation by Michael...

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in one dream this poet saw a horrific scene
where i was sitting on top of the house
and yet water had reached that high
submerging everything in...

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the little child with innocence in his eyes
trying to calm his mother down
as tears keep rolling down her eyes
he continues his search for food in...

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she kept on trying to calm her child down
crossing the floodwaters to reach the shore
while she held him high above her head
she almost drowned in...

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The ocean is home to a curation of shells,
The type you admire, the kind you call into,
The ones that whisper stories the sea never tells.
The...

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fertile ground was found
     the soil a rich deep dark brown
          the...

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Most everyone falls in love with raw and beautiful
whether it be a raspy woman or haunted forest.
We free fall because they're untamed and indifferent.
Bathed in...

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That year the earth acted peculiar and parched
the hatchlings screeched in the pulse of darkness
mother bird had nothing much to offer
not one insect, hopper nor...

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The fish needs the anemone; the anemone, the fish 
The pollen needs to be the bumble bee’s most precious wish
There’s fishes that frequent the mouths...

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Winter Withers

…… its way into the woods
and waits….and wonders….and watches
until…. No-one is looking.
Suddenly, an ally boorishly introduces itself,
an iced-sliced wind to quiver-shiver
the woods’ most tender...

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Dreams, new and old dreams, we all dream
We all dream of chocolate and ice cream
We all dream of monsters, bandits and angels
We all dream of...

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Victors survive in nature’s wild.
Protectors are most determined.
Mother Bear needs fish for her child.
Victors survive.

The strongest, biggest, hungriest,
does not always win the food chain.
Love and...

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Smiling down on the speckles of sand,
already the warmth is fading.
Dreaming of brilliant 
stars to appear
as their mother rested on waves.

At the height of graceful...

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I feel safe and whole here
Devoid of fear

Alone listening to the rain
Devoid of worry or pain

Cocooned by green paddocks and trees
Devoid of thoughts of death...

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