A special extended haiku for the New Year BY PUNAM RANA
Tag: Trees
Kurtis Ebeling – Poppies
In these days of bitter cold, poet Kurtis Ebeling has offered us an imagistic window into idyllic summer with his tranquil poem "Poppies".
Plant Hands
Letting go as a pathway to new life BY SARAH WAYLAND SMITH
Spencer Pfleiderer – Sanctuary
Spencer Pfleiderer informs us with solid earthy lines of his poem "Sanctuary" that good things come to those who wait.
Jane Hirshfield – Tree
In this poem, Hirshfield asks us: Whose voices, which urgings from within and without, will we follow onto a life’s path?
A Temple of Living Pillars: John Fowles’ Ode to the Sacred and Sensuous Tree
Author John Fowles on the ways in which trees and forests formed the bedrock of his own creative, psychic and religious sensibility.
Tess Gallagher – Choices
When we have the capacity to hold back and turn away from the harm we might do.
Jenna Wysong Filbrun – Aspiration
Jenna Wysong Filbrun reminds us that we have so much to learn from the natural world, with her poem "Aspiration".
Ursula K. Le Guin – Kinship
The mystical teachings of trees are beautifully expressed in Ursula K. Le Guin's poem, Kinship, in which she explores our own primal origins.
Matthew Kohut – White Ash
A reflection at the end of winter on the cycles of death and renewal.