Nature Sedoka Poems

The rain is singing
Soaking the leafy terrain
With splashy songs of puddles

The sun is smiling
Spreading a golden kindness
Through its glazed misty snuggles
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it possesses me
white tangling leaves beg a stay
cool springs wake in your favor

nature has its ways
swayed subtleties magnify
white willow awards patience...

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Nature's sedoka
in everything everywhere,
each season a frame around
its heart— its fingers 
through every warm bloom, picking
through every cold cavity—

its face— night or dawn
settling on leafy...

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a teeny tiny
mouse shyly skitters among
the crisp-dried leaves and deadfall
the teeny tiny
mouse believes that Spring has sprung
to free him from his burrow

when fragrant flowers
rise with...

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Its bright yellow throat
with veins vibrant red erupts 
in the softest scent of musk.
Birds and bees harken
to its call for them to drink
deep from its...

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In beauty parlor 
Don’t need the charm of heaven
Need you love, need you in heart

Loveliness is time
Nature is nonstop for all
But valentine you are mine

©...

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crystalline flakes fall
conjured by winter's magic...
cars slip-sliding on black ice

nature’s confetti
snowflakes entomb autumn's dead... 
colors are shrouded in white


(Sedoka)


01/10/2023


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those cold snowy days
seldom seen in warm desert
escaping frost's snow packed fields
yet desert's green leaves
depend on drinks from storm's cache
in wells shared with thirsty land

January...

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Hot coffee in hand 
looking out the cold window 
I see winter has arrived. 
A white snow blanket 
covers nature this winter 
all sleep until...

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to have seen flocks of
starlings in murmuration
is to have lived a full life
-
it’s as simple as
a child plucking a rose
from a blooming garden bed...

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A field in winter
frosted with fresh-fallen snow
cloaks the mole, mouse, and magpie
hunting in hunger.
The hawk swoops down with keen eye
to crash the feasting party....

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Sheep bleating sundown 
Wolves lurk furtively in packs  
Moans of dying voices warn. 
Shepherd alert now 
Danger to his frightened flock 
Brings crude weapons...

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City Life


concrete jungle trails
lure predators on the prowl ---
posh picturesque parks

proven hunting grounds
only fools frequent nature ---
green leafy trees shade secrets 


(Sedoka)


11-01-2020...

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Blue hill’s tuned cadence
Bronze leaves’ rustling melody
Flowed in stream of beguiled youth. 

In fading twilight
Lattice of chased butterflies
Glows on memory layers.


October 31, 2020
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My kite’s white string drifts.
Sunlight shines through its canvas -
leaf, shell, feather. Wisp of cloud.

Up, away, lost, gone - 
floating from my childhood hands.
They grasp...

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