nature poems

Naked Embrace | Scott Thomas Outlar - Appreciate Language and Form through the Best Contemporary Poetry

Naked Embrace | Scott Thomas Outlar

The fading sky bleeds
burnt orange tears,
giving way to night’s
shower of stars.
Piercing light cascades
from heaven’s waterfall,
eliciting a flood
of primal passion down to earth.
Stuck in the warm embrace
of honey maple syrup,
we strip naked
and wait for our flesh to burn.
Eager is the lust
of a draining moon,
kissing our enflamed pores
with its velvet rays of silent electricity.
A buzz hums in the atmosphere
as lightning pulses in wild waves,
accompanied by rumbling thunder
that drives the song into raw veins.
Pumping feverishly through blood,
a sugar rush of adrenaline to the head
pops open dormant glands
to release enlightenment’s echo.
Vibrations from the chaos storm
lick our souls to the bone,
cleansing away ancient remorse
and breathing fresh hope into our hearts.

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To a Butterfly | Joseph C. Ogbonna - Appreciate Language and Form through the Best Contemporary Poetry

To a Butterfly | Joseph C. Ogbonna

You raise your wings like an angelic insect,
sent with a goodwill message to deliver,
hovering around flowers gay with a gentle touch,
and the kiss of life of a kindhearted fairy.
You are truly blameless of anything scary,
bringing more life to nature without defect,
generously giving without desiring much
in return, unlike many a human deceiver.

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Blue | April Mae M. Berza - Appreciate Language and Form through the Best Contemporary Poetry

Blue | April Mae M. Berza

The womb of the words could not give birth to this longing
Let me caress your shadow now that I’m missing you.
Shades of blue devour my heart as I awake this morning
Now that you are gone, I am left alone, missing you.
I hate those giant curtains covering the windows
It makes me want to wipe the tears with it, missing you.
The cold coffee, the cold bread, the cold butter,
I ask that you remain for a second because I’m missing you.
I could not discover another word for grief, my darling,
The syntax of time calls for a hiatus, missing you.
The chirping clock forgets its duty today, only today
I wander into the kingdom of dreams, missing you.
Sorrow penetrates into my left ventricle for so long,
Piercing my caged heart into its coldness, missing you.
My flowers forget to remind me to water them,
Staring the whole day into the ceiling, missing you.
This Mojave desert thirst could be quenched by your presence
Be an oasis with me as soon as possible now that I’m missing you.
Pain drives me mad I begin to let go and dance and sing,
Sorrow is insulin to your diabetic kiss, missing you.

Life Is an LOL Face | PYG's Whisper - Appreciate Language and Form through the Best Contemporary Poetry

Life Is an LOL Face | PYG's Whisper

Good morning
YOHO! I’m saying good morning
Why does everyone look constipated in the morning
Why does no one smile in the metro and are kinda boring
Why are they striving with anyone for anytime when they’re talking
Everybody pretends to be reading the newspaper
Only to hide their faces avoiding to come across
Someone they know or another they hate
They give the impression
They are going to the hanging room not to work
With their sharp looks
And their steps even stronger
Than those of a solider when they walk
Hey guys!
Here the earth is not a shooting in Hollywood
Life is just an LOL face so tell me why so serious?
Do you think chasing your shadow will make your eternal happiness
Live to earn money and select luxury goods without enjoying is your
success
Why work to work not work to have fun nonstop
Don’t tell me this is life, cause life is an LOL face
Come on why so serious
Stop for a moment and take a flashback of your life
See how you behave and how stupid you are
Running toward an unknown future
And leaving the most beautiful moment behind
Why follow the pace of life
Imposed by don’t know who
Make yours and impose yourself by what you do
And if life has made you a marionette
Make it a skeleton and exhaust all its forces by your ignorance
Oh, don’t you know
Life is a game so let’s play
Show your LOMA side
Cause life is just an LOL face
Don’t be so serious!

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Primal Priorities | Scott Thomas Outlar - Appreciate Language and Form through the Best Contemporary Poetry

Primal Priorities | Scott Thomas Outlar

Elegance and style
whispered from the tongue of divinity
grace the atmosphere
where two blue birds dance
in a synchronized sort of way
which displays a beautiful tribute to their breed.
Once tired,
the creatures drift slowly upon the wind
down to the cold Earth
where they begin to peck into the soil,
digging for fat fleshy worms
that can be guzzled
down their throats
in a type of natural urge
that proves beyond the shadow of a doubt
that elegance and style,
enchanting and marvelous as they may be,
don’t mean a thing
if the belly isn’t full.

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Dawn in the Woods | Earnest Tilling - Appreciate Language and Form through the Best Contemporary Poetry

Dawn in the Woods | Earnest Tilling

What can you find
In the depths of the
Woods
Where the
Magic
Lays
No one
Can resist the
Woods
Another beautiful day
Come,
Hither,
To the place
Where trees
Whisper
And Listen to you
The one and only place
Where anybody
Takes you
Seriously
Listen
Silent
Shhh

The World Is My Oyster | Mahima - Appreciate Language and Form through the Best Contemporary Poetry

The World Is My Oyster | Mahima

They tell me that the world is
my oyster but I often wonder
to myself: is it really?
They ask me to spread my wings
wide and just fly, letting nothing
weigh me down; but haven’t they
seen that my wings are clipped
and their own droning voices
rest heavily on my shoulders,
pulling me down from the sky
that they say is limitless?
And don’t they see that I do not
want to get lost in an endless
expanse of the sky, where I
would find no escape from them,
and which is crowded with a
million others that they have
subtly forced into a restricted flight?
And don’t they see that all I
now want is to drown in the
peaceful serenity that the ocean
offers, where the sun rises from
and sinks into and where the
sky meets the earth?
But they never did know
how to let go, and they have me
so beat that succumbing to the
blue waters is beyond what I’m
capable of anymore and so I
let them pull my strings and
let them fly me like a kite and
let them tell me that the
world is my oyster and just
quietly wonder to myself:
is it really?

Flowers | Mohammad Rizwan - Appreciate Language and Form through the Best Contemporary Poetry

Flowers | Mohammad Rizwan

Flowers have blossomed from the day they were given, today they still look beautiful because of the things that were forgiven.
They are bright and full of life, the colors are shinning in the light.
Red, yellow, pink, and white.
Each petal on the flower represents our struggles and from the bottom to the top it all comes together.
Not one has yet fallen but has a few ready to go but not without a
fight will it drop or will it show.
The beauty in a flower is the smile it can bring to any face, race,
and color of the skin.
One rose, a dozen roses they all mean the same, don’t let the number fool you to see what the true meaning it brings.

The Medical Examiner's Message | Zarrineh - Appreciate Language and Form through the Best Contemporary Poetry

The Medical Examiner's Message | Zarrineh

The young Medical Examiner said: I spent my last ten years mostly with the dead,
They were mothers and fathers, sons and daughters,
They were young and old; abruptly their lives came to a fold,
They all had dreams; suddenly, death arrived leaving no chance to blow off some steam,
Most thought: “There will be more time”, while their haste was only
focused on gaining an extra dime,
Most expected more, never happy with what they had, always looking at a distant shore,
Most procrastinated with the day; always putting important things a
bay,
Most postponed the subject of the heart, always rearranging the
chart,
Most withheld saying “I love you”; sadly, their spirit felt like
a foe,
Most left finishing the project for tomorrow, reluctant to aim with
the bow and arrow,
Despite of the tragedy, few had a smile on their face, my guess, they enjoyed every day with grace,
The length of the contract is fuzzy; it is up to us to enjoy every day and be busy,
The next breath has not been promised, the value of this moment should never be dismissed,
From birth we know our stay is not perpetual; thus, we brush off the subject of death as casual,
The time of death bears no rationalization; the law of reasoning is
short of explanation,
Death will not send a notice; it does not hold an office,
No one is exempt; don’t even try to attempt,
Treasure every moment on Earth; this journey could be very short and sometimes curt, have a bit of mirth,
Wasting, borrowing or misusing the precious gift of time, is nothing short of committing a crime,
Attend your life, cut the old habit with a sharp knife,
Extend your gratitude each day and night, go on and make things right.

Turns of the Tide | Earnest Tilling - Appreciate Language and Form through the Best Contemporary Poetry

Turns of the Tide | Earnest Tilling

Weeping are the
Breaths of Winter
Thriving is the Sun
And
Budding
Blooming
Bursting to life are the
Flowers
And quickly as they sprung,
They are
Gone.
Petals
Falling falling falling falling falling falling falling
To the soil
Rich with the taste of
Dead leaves
That are littered across the
Floors of Mother Nature
Then sparkle shimmer silver gleam
White winter wonder of flaking precipitation
Covers the wasteland
Barren is is no more, for all the eyes can see are the
Dustings of the snowy substances.
Then
Slush slushy yucky icky ugh
The tears of Mother Nature are
Falling falling falling falling falling falling falling
And
Blink
The bells
The glee of winter is gone
But with the turn of the tide once again,
Smell the sunshine and tickle the breeze
For another world has come to visit
Our winter.

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