Nature Retreat Poems

Off to the cabin on the lake for a much neeed rest
Time to get away and experience nature at its best
The SUV is loaded let...

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Holding out on me, I see,
Never meant to pry,
Given tools to question,
One foot on the platform,
Fading sight.

Lost "need,"
Must I search,
What it means to be,
At least...

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I take an unhurriedly walk
through the virgin forest
with paths fully covered with brittle leaves,
its trees emit mournful laments
to protest its anguishing fate until spring arrives
and...

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beyond the thickets
past the clearings
virgin trails 
cool
as licks of ice
his retreat...
yet awaits him...

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Hear the sound of Winter's retreat
trickling away beneath your feet.
And gush into a swollen creek,
where surging waters swiftly peak.
See shifting ice packs crack and break
as...

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The smoke stains on the windows
Attempt to obscure the crystal morning light
Of a chill autumn morning, a last leaf
Of fall glory, dangling, 
Waiting for the...

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HURRICANE SALLY, 9/16/20


With an unprecedented surge
She has taken my name
And is raging her way across the Gulf,
In all manner of alarming the population:
To stir, to...

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i come to clear my mind
see what i can find
meander down a path sublime
running fingers through sands of time

i come to seek the universal truth
while...

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When troubles and turmoil lay their grip on me,
Solace is found in a simpler time and place.  
In my mind or person, it is...

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RETREAT TO HEED OUR HONEST DEEDS

Two old oak trees weathered by winds and rain
with fallen leaves, branches and toughened bark
to shield a core of grandeur,...

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Winter’s Retreat
Snuggling in our cozy home
Watching snowflakes fly
Crystals making shapes on trees
Stars blink in the sky

Fireplace is drumming
Light is throwing sparks
Candlesticks are lighting
Roadways in the...

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Enough is enough -no more of the heat
We have been hit by the climate with
(Or it is we who have made the nature
Behave so wildly?...

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I stood beneath the Banyan
Feeling its Mighty power
it spread its boughs
over the forest
A mighty king
Ruling its domain.

I picked up a leaf
Touched my cheek to it
The...

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Across a scarlet sunset I will be watching
Flowers turn in vain to face the falling sun
But drinking in the moonlight of defeat
In the darkness their...

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Remember it not.
Oblivion,
Let it slide into cave.
The annual rings of old wood are
hurting.
Tree of life burning inside.

It cannot happen
it can happen.
There is no certainty.
this is...

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