Nature Poems
Nature Poems express thoughts, feelings and emotions
on the interrelations of living organisms with their environments. Nature Poems connect us through language,
sound and sight to how our precious natural heritage is respected, which defines love of the earth.
New Book Now Available!
BUTTERFLY BEAUTIFLY
BEAUTIFUL: Nature Poems
is my latest publication.
Please visit inglewoodnaturepress.ca to learn more about the book, read some of the poems, hear me recite some poems, and order copies of the book.
My Legacy
Thousands of ancestors
laboured for progress
I’m the first
with pesticides in my fat
radioactive strontium and
cesium in my bones
air pollutants in my lungs
herbicides in my wine
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CONSERVE
I hung a word
on an old pine tree
they cut down the tree
I strung my word
on a pine sapling
they pushed down the sapling
I placed the word
by a pine seedling
they plowed down the seedling
I traced my word
on the sun-baked soil
it blew away
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Long Live the King
a new road penetrates the wilderness
a young bull moose mounts the crushed gravel
a truck horn blares
the moose bugles
the truck charges
the moose charges
a King is born
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In the old days
an over-heated "no-stick treated" pot
emitted fumes that were assumed to not
be harmful till the vapours killed a lot
of caged canaries
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Unfathomable
i wish i could draw
a political cartoon
of a noble whale
in a concrete jail
prodded to perform
to lunge from the water
as the audience cheers
a whale trainer
prancing dancing
on the whale's nose
a bruised nose
my brother's nose
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Signs
wild animals in the stars
wild animals in the clouds
what will we see in them
when the wild ones are gone
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A Matter of Taste
a partridge
in a pine tree
exquisite to see
a budworm
in a pine tree
unpleasant to me
a budworm
in a partridge
a delicacy
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Untitled Couplets
the large fierce animals are dead
the meek inherit earth instead
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we say in an arrogant way
that we are much smarter than they
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sly nature plays a trick each time one dreams of love as love sublime
for love is nature's prank we face, her ruse to reproduce each race
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a snapping turtle snaps at me
"dioxin saps virility"
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follow the trail of the fox
to tell the tale of the fox