Tag: Poetry
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Luna Moth
A meditation — visual and poetic — on the moon moth, an infrequent but celebrated visitor.
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Rhododendron Haiku
Another serenade to seasonality this Saturday in late May. I offer you a rhododendron haiku to honor this temperate turn from spring to a precocious preview of summery days ahead. Rhodos invite optimism. An audacious pinkish-purply-red extravaganza floating above a sea of green. A swell of polished rhododendron leaves creating a sea of Lily-of-the-Valley leaves.…
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Apple Blossoms
A prose poem for the optimism of apple blossoms (and the pollinators who ensure that this beauty will bear fruit!)
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Downriver Drifting
Sunday stream of consciousness riffling from birdsong to riverine rambling (and deftly sidestepping the complex concerns of Sarah McCartt-Jackson’s poem, “Borrow”.)
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Hummingbird Haiku
Perhaps hummingbirds offer us a fleeting reminder to welcome the wisdom of wonder? To wander wider? To pursue a nonlinear path, to be unimpeded by obstacles, to bound between ambrosial blossoms?
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Homecoming Remix
Over the last year and a half I have scrutinized the notion of home and my personal perspective on “homeness“. I’ve discovered that the experience of homecoming is perhaps one of the best barometers for indicating where (and with whom) we feel most at home. So today I offer you a homecoming remix — a…
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Earth Day
Without being cute or hyperbolic, *every* day at Rosslyn is Earth Day. Healthy, sustainable, holistic practice — from construction and gardening to eating and personal wellness, responsible land stewardship to ecological wildlife guardianship — was fundamental to the lifestyle changes we made two decades ago when we exited life in Manhattan and started fresh on…
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Pirouettes & Silhouettes
From dancing hammocks to sunset silhouetted carriage barn and icehouse, this is a first foray toward lyric essay still germinating.
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Mustelid Musing
Willing unfamiliars into focus so that we may photograph Ermine, Marten, and Weasel…
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Dilating & Distorting
A poem flanked with wistful renderings of two history hued artifacts that whisper neoclassical prayers while subtly dilating and distorting the here and now. What?!
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Daffodil Season
Such splendid springtime erupting alongside lawns and fields, kindling confidence that summer soon will bloom. Daffodil season revitalizes hope, tickles love and levity strained by months of cold, bloomless winter. Daffodil Season Spring’s proof positivelifts last year’s leaves, matted grass,and summer spirits. Would be wonderful to wax wise about daffodil season, to offer some fresh…