Category: Poems about Nature

Branches dissolving
As they descend into the
Acidic green lake

Blast from the Past:

Burnt red clay
And shards of glass
Where the world turned to salt and fire

An endless growth of
Pines, ferns, moss, and somehow
Many palm tree husks

A Posthumous Title: The temperate rain forest of New Zealand

Blast from the Past:

These forests of pillars
Now eroding stone in the
Summer wind and rain

(I wrote the first haiku above while on the road without enough internet access to post it day of, so I posted later when I internet.)

Gliding gracefully
Coming together as one
Two mantas kissing

Blast from the past:

School of fish chilling under my belly
Why stay here? You hungry, or
Do those swimmers scare you?

Sitting by the fire
Staring into the flames, wondering
Whether I exist

Blast from the Past:

Camping
Where time collapses
Into the fire’s flames

Barred teeth, focused eyes
White fangs, dripping with
Your blood

Blast from the Past:

Lay awake then rise
The sun will soon return, to
Reveal your demons

How the earth becomes
Infinite in all of its
Endless finitude

Blast from the Past:

The waters flowing
Into the place out of which
It originates

Thunder questioning
The stones, arraigning the sky
Calling to judgment

Blast from the Past:

Maybe our stars are
Genuflecting to us for
Propping them above