Nature – Page 44 – Carrie Birde

Autumn’s Kiss — An Image

Scarlet Leaf.jpg — “Autumn’s Kiss” — C.Birde, 10/16

Autumn’s scarlet kiss

rests lightly

on lichened

stone.

— C.Birde, 10/16

Autumn Nature photo poem writing

Moon Stroll — A Poem

Adam's Moon.JPG — “Moon Stroll” — A.Schnitzler, 10/16

The wide night’s

white eye

shines bright

and I

slip by

below

unnoticed

but

for minstrel

crickets

who cease,

midway,

their

spacious

Autumn

song

to retrieve

anew

once I

have moved

along.

— C.Birde, 10/16

Autumn Nature photo writing

Autumn Door — An Image

WP_20161012_15_11_34_Smart (2).jpg — “Autumn Doorway” — C.Birde, 10/16

Thresholds

and doorways spied

from the corner

of one’s eye —

step off the long-trod path

into the arms

of

Autumn.

— C.Birde, 10/16

Autumn Nature photo trees writing

Wild Raspberry — An Image

“Wild Raspberry” — C.Birde, 10/16

Thorny wild raspberry,

whip limbs free of bright fruit,

stretches skyward

in recollection

of Summer.

— C.Birde, 10/16

Autumn Nature photo writing

Ghost of Hickory — A Poem

WP_20161004_15_21_54_Smart (3).jpg — “Hickory’s Ghost” — C.Birde, 10/16

A lifetime ago,

crouched together

in the graveled drive,

swathed within

the hickory’s mutable shade,

we small creatures gathered

that straight-torsoed tree’s

green-hulled spheres.

Flesh rusted

beneath nails’ crescents,

we peeled and prized,

released the small,

smooth spheroids within.

With teeth,

with stones clutched

and knuckled,

we shattered

the inner carapaces,

picked

crenelated chambers

free of sweet nut meat

to eat

and left behind

haphazard patterns

of heaped

discarded shells.

The hickory was felled

half a lifetime later,

for raining nuts on

the car parked below.

And my small creature’s heart,

nested within the adult’s,

fissured,

broke.

— C.Birde, 10/16

Nature photo trees

Autumn Rain — An Image

Autumn leaves & rain.jpg — “Leaves & Rain” — C.Birde, 10/16

Autumn rain —

a deep breath

after hectic Summer;

a vivid

and saturated

respite.

— C.Birde, 10/16

Autumn Nature photo weather writing

Winged Promise — A Poem

Created with Nokia Smart Cam — “Promise” — C.Birde, 9/16

To rest

heart and head and bone

on pink-shouldered,

pink-hipped stone

laced gray with lichen,

and to see,

beyond the summit’s

curved, granite lip,

the peregrine arise —

winged wish

within the vast blue sky.

He dives,

snatches and tatters

the day’s cares –-

the week’s

the month’s

the year’s –-

in beak and talon.

A sun-soaked,

wind-tossed

promise.

— C.Birde, 9/16

birds Nature photo writing

Verticality — Images

Vertical Wood.jpg — “Vertical Wood” — C.Birde, 9/16

Amongst the verticality of trees

— their communal and elemental truth —

there is solace.

— C.Birde, 9/16

Woodland Path.jpg — “Woodland Path” — C.Birde, 9/16

Autumn Nature photo trees writing

Woodland Staircase — An Image

Woodland steps.jpg — “Woodland Steps” — C.Birde, 9/16

A quilt of worn bricks

remains

beneath moss and needle carpet.

Birch and pine and maple

glide skyward

through broken foundation,

through anamnesis.

And leaf-strewn steps

tumble

d

o

w

n

— like memory —

to the abiding

gray

sea.

— C.Birde, 9/16

Gray Sea.jpg — “Gray Sea” — C.Birde, 9/16

Nature photo writing

Moss Wood — An Image

Moss Wood.jpg — “Moss Wood” — C.Birde, 9/16

I heard the Wood call

in its moss-furred tongue.

I returned

in answer to that heart’s echo,

and was welcomed

as though time had not slipped

and shifted.

— C.Birde, 9/16

Nature photo writing