Category: Poems about Nature

Poems about nature

05/20/25 A New Nonet for a New Day

Road winding along the mountain’s edge
Peaks crest on both sides as they fall
Slowly into the ocean
Sun setting behind
All fall into
The same line
My eyes
Do

Today I wrote a nonet. The first line is 9 syllables; the next one’s 8, all the day down to 1.

Blast from the Past:

Each morning we gaze
At the same sun

05/19/25 A New American Haiku for A New Day

Photo Credit: Indira Tjokorda

Dolphins

Surfing on its waves
They come play
With this strange boat thing

(Today, I wrote a lune or “American Haiku“, which follows 5-3-5.)

Blast from the Past:

The waters rush forth
Towards where the dolphins leap,
And the moon beckons.

05/14/25 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo by the author of the mountains in Vang Vieng, Laos

Mountains, mountains, and
Then even more mountains, and
Mountains after that

Blast from the Past:

Islands of mountains
Rising up from the sea of clouds
A Bhudda statue

05/10/25 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo by me

Rainbows, waterfalls,
Mist, and sun sun all come and go
In the Fiordlands

This one is about Fiordland National Park in New Zealand, one of my favorite national parks to visit in the world. I saw more rainbows there in three days than I think I did anywhere in the world, for example, and the mountains constantly shift between weather extremes throughout the day, completely changing the landscape in the process.

Blast from the Past:

The rain must be drums
Upon the water’s surface
For the fish beneath

More of my photos from Fiordland National Park:

04/10/25 A New Haiku for a New Day

Is the waterfall
Concerned with whether each drop
Gets all the way down?

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

Blast from the Past:

Yes, waterfalls flow
Without purpose or plan but
With much direction and force
Emerging intent