Category: Writers
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Night and Day. The Nature Psyche #16
Nocturnal stillness Reflected light of the gods Life’s strife can wait One perfect moment To remember,to inhabit For eternity Toils of the day The measuring and spending Of precious Time
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Dyslexia, a poem, a lament
How I would love to read With speed, without fatigue Quickly, voraciously Un-dyslexically Jealousy? envy? Alas, it’s true But within the frustration Innate compensations Are small celebrations I’m mostly at peace With me The Reader, by Renoir
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Autumn Reflections
High above the hawk is circling Red shoulders cutting through blue sky The year’s last delicious thermals are rising Like feathers the leaves are falling Dazzling colors giving life as they die Surrendering to the season, so gracefully accepting The night chorus of crickets is thinning Issuing a sporadic collective sigh Through the cool autumn…
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Impressions of Autumn
High above the hawk is circling Red shoulders cutting through blue sky The year’s last delicious thermals are rising Like feathers the leaves are falling Dazzling colors giving life as they die Surrendering to the season, so gracefully accepting The night chorus of crickets is thinning Issuing a sporadic collective sigh Through the cool autumn…
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Neurodivergent Haiku
It’s hard to imagine a more unabashed or showy flower than the California Poppy. And they’re tough—well adapted to long, dry summers. Once in a great while, however, a plant puts out a cream colored variant. As soon as I saw this flower it struck me as a perfect expression of what it so often…
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Happy haiku (only one today)
Deep in the forest Childhood’s favorite color Cures the middle age blues
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The Nature Psyche #10. Lost Voices, A Haiku Poem.
First language, first music Our Earth ever heard The voices of birds Waves of sound, Carrying, Traveling, heralding Life’s expansion of emotion Human ancestors Heard you, did they envy you? Did they long for your song? Nature’s slow clock Ticking, tinkering, misty hands Of Evolution A forest, rustling leaves, Your songs, are quietude For anxious…
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The Nature Psyche, #8. Eco-Haiku
Why is greenery In scenery so conducive To dreamery? The kinship mystery We share in our genes with trees Ferns, flowers, and bees Eco-stalgia Wistful, darkening, evolving Toward what future? Echo-stalgia Haunting reverberations Of extinction Eco-hope Where to find, how to create? Small acts, every day
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The Nature Psyche #7. Introverts Unite!
You may not know, but the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual” of Psychiatric Disorders (DSM) had been planning to list Introversion as a pathology requiring treatment. It was the vocal protest of the Jungian psychology community that prevented this from occurring. A few uplifting quotes for the introvert:
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