Winter Journal: Threshed Blue, Cardings, Dim TonsilsBy Emily Wilsonstripped batting of cloud glimpsed ligaments dusk coming up under lithographic, nib-hatchings instruments...NatureWinterLandscapes & PastoralsTrees & Flowers
7.21By Stephen Ratcliffelight coming into fog against invisible top of ridge, blue jay on redwood fence in foreground, sound...NatureAnimalsLandscapes & PastoralsStanza FormsMixedMetersFree VerseTechniquesImageryTypes/ModesPastoral + 4 more
A river slipsBy Cole Swensena river slips in shifting leaves sifting. a river sifts and falls to pieces in which not seen (this ...NatureLandscapes & PastoralsSeas, Rivers, & StreamsLivingTime & BrevityVerse FormsMetersFree VerseTechniquesImageryTypes/ModesPastoral + 5 more
To a Wreath of SnowBy Emily BrontëO transient voyager of heaven! O silent sign of winter skies! What adverse wind thy sail has driven...NatureWinterLandscapes & PastoralsWeatherSocial CommentariesCrime & PunishmentReligionThe SpiritualLivingTime & BrevityStanza FormsQuatrainMetersFree VerseTechniquesImageryMetaphorTypes/ModesOdeGratitude + 13 more
A Bird in BishopswoodBy John TickhillIn springtime, chief of all seasons, in May when new joys rise and flourish, the sun is lord and messenger...LoveHeartache & LossUnrequited LoveNatureSpringAnimalsLandscapes & PastoralsSocial CommentariesClassTown & Country LifeLivingGrowing OldLife ChoicesSorrow & GrievingActivitiesSports & Outdoor Activities + 9 more
On the Fifth DayBy Jane HirshfieldOn the fifth day the scientists who studied the rivers were forbidden to speak or to study the rivers...NatureLandscapes & PastoralsTrees & FlowersSeas, Rivers, & StreamsSocial CommentariesArts & SciencesSciencesStanza FormsMixedMetersFree VerseTechniquesImageryMetaphor + 7 more
Summer, AfternoonBy Alvin FeinmanThis this will it always be, and why To ever argue for: here walking In its life, or sprawled, or loitering...NatureSummerLandscapes & PastoralsTrees & FlowersLivingYouth
The HorsesBy Ted HughesI climbed through woods in the hour-before-dawn dark. Evil air, a frost-making stillness, Not a leaf...NatureAnimalsLandscapes & PastoralsStars, Planets, HeavensSeas, Rivers, & StreamsSocial CommentariesLivingThe MindMemory & NostalgiaTime & BrevityStanza FormsCoupletMetersFree VerseTechniquesConsonanceImageryTypes/ModesPastoral + 12 more
WatershedBy Tracy K. Smith200 cows more than 600 hilly acres property would have been even larger had J not sold 66 acres to DuPont...NatureLandscapes & PastoralsTrees & FlowersSeas, Rivers, & StreamsSocial CommentariesCities & Urban LifeMoney & EconomicsTown & Country LifeLivingDeathActivitiesSports & Outdoor ActivitiesArts & SciencesSciencesMetersFree VerseTypes/ModesElegyPastoral + 12 more
p1The Sky Keeps SurprisesBy Ahmad Almallahthe wound is bleeding into white the wound is threading clouds across the eye, across its view and how...NatureLandscapes & PastoralsThe MindDoubt & ContemplationStanza FormsMixedMetersFree VerseTechniquesImageryAnxiety & InsecurityMelancholy & Despair + 5 more
I’M GOING BACK TO MINNESOTA WHERE SADNESS MAKES SENSEBy Danez SmithO California, don’t you know the sun is only a god if you learn to starve for him? I’m bored with the...NatureLandscapes & PastoralsLivingDeath
A Memory of UsBy Safia Elhillowhen i think of us i think of the lakewater near longtown, what might not technically constitute a lake...LoveRomantic LoveNatureLandscapes & PastoralsTrees & Flowers
Equinox Eve, Silent Meeting GroupBy CAConradOver seven billion human beings live on Earth now. We have displaced or made extinct so many other species...NatureLandscapes & PastoralsSocial CommentariesCities & Urban LifeReligionThe SpiritualArts & SciencesPoetry & Poets
I have never seen "Volcanoes" — (175)By Emily DickinsonI have never seen "Volcanoes" — But, when Travellers tell How those old — phlegmatic mountains Usually...NatureLandscapes & Pastorals
p1EggBy Linda PastanIn this kingdom the sun never sets; under the pale oval of the sky there seems no way in or out, and...NatureAnimalsLandscapes & Pastorals
RedBy Cheryl SavageauIn his new poem the red autumn woods are a metaphor for leftist martyrs We are traveling east through...NatureLandscapes & PastoralsTrees & FlowersArts & SciencesPoetry & Poets
Black EarthBy Osip MandelstamToo black, too much indulged, living in clover, all little withers, all air, all charity, all crumbling...NatureLandscapes & PastoralsSocial CommentariesTown & Country LifeActivitiesGardeningJobs & Working
Do not compare: what lives is incomparable.By Osip MandelstamDo not compare: what lives is incomparable. I felt a a kind of tender fear as I took on the plains' ...NatureLandscapes & Pastorals
I was washing at night out in the yardBy Osip MandelstamI was washing at night out in the yard— the heavens glowing with rough stars. A star-beam like salt ...NatureLandscapes & PastoralsActivitiesJobs & WorkingSports & Outdoor Activities
Street ViewBy Kerrin McCaddenI Google where I come from in Ireland, drag the yellow man into street view and click the spin arrow over and ...NatureLandscapes & PastoralsLivingRelationshipsFamily & Ancestors