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Poetry Prompt: Earth Song Nature Poems—Celebrate!

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Earth Song Nature Poems Anthology is Born!

We’re delighted to announce that the Earth Song nature poems anthology is finally here.

It took two years to secure all the poem permissions, but the poems were worth the wait!

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From established poets like Pablo Neruda, W.S. Merwin, and Jane Hirshfield to emerging poets like Michelle Ortega and Rick Maxson, the pages are filled with verse that sings in surprising ways to your soul. The collection also includes diverse voices, many in translation from across the globe.

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We invite you to celebrate with us and the full list of poets who appear in Earth Song (past and present). Join all these voices and sing a song of earth:

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Scott Edward Anderson, Crisosto Apache, L. L. Barkat, Sara Barkat, Wendell Berry, Kimberly Blaeser, William Blake, Robert Burns, Jennifer Chang, Briceida Cuevas Cob, Jack Cooper, Mahmoud Darwish, Emily Dickinson, Louise Erdrich, Forugh Farrokhzad, Jennifer Elise Foerster, Robert Frost, Mary Elizabeth Frye, Martha Greenwald, Jennifer Grotz, Thomas Hardy, Jane Hirshfield, Tony Hoagland, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Major Jackson, Emily Pauline Johnson, P. K., Irakli Kakabadze, Laura Kasischke, Jan Kaus, John Keats, D. H. Lawrence, Li-Young Lee, Si-Young Lee, Luljeta Lleshanaku, Kate Seymour Maclean, Rick Maxson, Janet McAdams, Claude McKay, W. S. Merwin, Sandra Fox Murphy, Pablo Neruda, Michelle Ortega, Anne M. Doe Overstreet, Peter Payack, Lola Ridge, Hermit Tai Shang, Dave Smith, Wallace Stevens, Rabindranath Tagore, Sara Teasdale, Wyatt Townley, Tomas Tranströmer, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Gerald Vizenor, Walt Whitman, Will Willingham, Elizabeth Woody, William Wordsworth, William Butler Yeats.

Try It: Earth Song Nature Poems Prompt

Celebrate today by penning your own song to or from the earth. Whether mountains, floral majesties, or monarchs, the lyrics are yours to compose!

(Btw, we’d love to feature your poem if it works for our audience. 🙂 )

Featured photo by L.L. Barkat. Used with permission.
 

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  1. Renee Cassese says

    July 4, 2022 at 11:07 am

    I am very excited to see this! I love nature poems and most of what I write are gratitudes for Mother Nature’s gifts. My poet guru is Mary Oliver.
    Renee

    Reply
    • L.L. Barkat says

      July 4, 2022 at 11:18 am

      Glad to hear, Renee. 🙂 We look forward to any poems you share in celebration!

      Reply
      • Renee says

        July 4, 2022 at 11:32 am

        Thank you!

        Reply
  2. Rebecca D. Martin says

    July 4, 2022 at 12:12 pm

    Ghost Moth

    I am on a trip, and there
    you are, on my car
    door; I didn’t see you land,
    your bushy professor
    eyebrows blowing in the gas station
    breeze, your ragged
    angel wings.

    You came for me.
    I know it. So don’t go.
    Hitch a ride on my
    shoulder, whisper
    in my ear.

    You died, didn’t you? Been to the other
    side somehow and back. Tell me
    your truths; brush the bone
    of my jaw with your wings:
    same thing.

    I know you
    have seen the real place,
    crystal clear. You came
    back to this bursted land and
    your wings got caught
    in the wreckage. (There is no other
    way.) The window is down, but —
    stay.

    Reply
    • Bethany Rohde says

      July 4, 2022 at 1:39 pm

      Rebecca, I just love those lines:

      “Tell me
      your truths; brush the bone
      of my jaw with your wings”

      So glad you shared this.

      Reply
    • Renee says

      July 4, 2022 at 2:37 pm

      Beautiful poem. Sharp images let me see the scene as it happened.

      Reply
      • Rebecca D. Martin says

        July 5, 2022 at 3:31 pm

        Bethany and Renee, thank you!

        Reply
  3. Sharmen Oswald says

    July 4, 2022 at 4:26 pm

    Just ordered my copy and can’t wait for it to arrive! I lead Pegasus Poets and charged the group with a similar prompt. Here’s my attempt:

    Consider the Honey Bee

    Consider the honey bee,
    How she flies so free!
    Her favorite color, purple or blue
    She isn’t afraid of me or you.
    The hive has just one queen
    Not easily seen.
    Her workers fly to and fro
    Always on the go.
    Their wings, count them four
    Beating 200 times per second or more!
    Her drones are the only males
    But workers over drones prevail.
    The queen can live for five years
    When she dies, there are no tears.
    Workers select a larva, feed it royal jelly
    Until the larva has a full belly.
    Without the bees our crops suffer
    Making our lives much tougher.
    This intricate, magical system of the hive
    Is a lesson for our own lives.
    We work together, we are a team
    For other’s well-being we esteem
    Consider the honey bee
    How she flies so free!

    By Sharmen Oswald

    Reply
    • L.L. Barkat says

      July 5, 2022 at 11:08 am

      Sharmen, that’s great. We hope you find some poems to love in the collection! And that’s fabulous, too, about Pegasus Poets.

      From your poem, “200 times per second or more” is so amazing!!! 🙂 Thanks for writing of the honeybee.

      (You might love our upcoming “Tell the Bees” event, btw. Check it out if you like: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tell-the-bees-tickets-361858587777 )

      Reply
    • Rebecca D. Martin says

      July 5, 2022 at 3:34 pm

      I like the steady, informative work through details of bees and their ways in this poem. Also, the repeated beginning and ending. I can envision it alongside beautiful illustrations!

      Reply
    • Sharmen Oswald says

      July 9, 2022 at 2:19 pm

      Just received my Earth Song. Love the title and completely understand the meaning behind the title after reading the foreward. As I am reading the poems, and rereading them, I do feel as if they have movement, much like music. Each one can stand alone, but collectively they create something so very special. Sara Barkat, you have created something beautiful and somber at the same time; you have created a masterpiece!

      Reply
      • L.L. Barkat says

        July 9, 2022 at 2:35 pm

        Sharmen, that is such a beautiful description and response to the book. I do know Sara would be grateful if you had time and willingness to put just these words on Amazon as a review—so others could see through your eyes and be invited to experience the work for themselves.

        Thank you for your great encouragement! 🙂

        Reply
  4. Jenna Brack says

    July 6, 2022 at 1:46 pm

    This looks like a beautiful collection!

    A nature poem:

    Over the snap, snap of pistachio shells,
    the cicadas call through the walls
    of my house, and what must I do,
    but step into the pulse of night?

    The fireflies (or do you call
    them lightning bugs?)
    are already at work,
    bijoux of summer evenings.

    Porch lights and window lights
    lift on and off, mimicking
    the flickering insects. For a half-minute,
    the cicadas grow quiet, a dampened breeze

    takes their place, shakes discarded
    raindrops from the leaves with a hiss,
    and I finally release the breath
    I didn’t know I had been holding
    inside my shell.

    Reply
    • L.L. Barkat says

      July 7, 2022 at 11:13 am

      I especially like the full circle on “shell,” Jenna. 🙂 And those porch and window lights lifting on and off. It all feels a bit like music.

      Reply
      • Jenna Brack says

        July 8, 2022 at 11:32 am

        Thank you, L.L. I value your feedback!

        Reply
    • Rebecca D. Martin says

      July 7, 2022 at 11:19 am

      The many internal rhymes throughout are heaven to read.

      The first two lines roll with wonderful sounds – the onomatopoeic snap, snap and the nearly audible idea of cicadas calling through walls – and such surprising images juxtaposed: cicadas and pistachio shells. I never would have thought of it, but they *do* go together.

      Reply
      • Jenna says

        July 8, 2022 at 11:34 am

        Thank you, Rebecca. I appreciate your thoughtful response!

        Reply
    • Sharmen Oswald says

      July 9, 2022 at 4:16 pm

      I love the overarching theme of “shell” in different formats that runs throughout the poem, i.e. the picstacio shells, the cidada “shells” (exoskeleton) and finally your shell. As I read your poem, I have many sensory images – sounds (snap, snap), sight (flickering) and touch (dampened breeze). The connection between you and nature is obvious with your poem.

      Reply
  5. Sharmen Oswald says

    July 9, 2022 at 2:58 pm

    As previously mentioned, I am loving Earth Song. I have been inspired by this collection. Here is one of the poems I wrote from this inspiration.

    Be Still

    As the sun slips away to just a sliver
    And the earth is winding down,
    I retreat to the forest, a giver
    Of peace and sound.

    I find my spot upon the earth
    And sit in quiet repose.
    I listen to the birds’ song of mirth,
    Different from the sun’s show.

    Their songs at eventide
    Are calling to the night,
    A different chime,
    Bringing peaceful delight.

    I hear birds I’ve never heard,
    A different song they sing
    One of hope deferred,
    Peace to me they bring.

    I walk away my soul richer
    For being in the presence
    Of God’s creation, a picture.
    Be still, the night of evanescence.

    Reply
    • Jenna says

      July 12, 2022 at 10:42 am

      I love the lines, “I find my spot upon the earth / And sit in quiet repose.” So gentle and peaceful.

      Reply
  6. Gail Junjulas says

    July 18, 2022 at 12:37 pm

    alleluia

    in our back woods a dead tree stands no bark
    or branches– silver smooth

    maple oak and others seek the light
    ferns like lace below

    a rusted wire surrounds its roots.

    further on a row of houses swimming pools
    in tiny landscaped yards

    radios and TV sets
    sounds of children cars delivery trucks.

    not here– deer and fawn

    squirrel rabbit mouse snake birds– rotting trees
    worms and insects– in wild rose honeysuckle all–

    scratch rub pee on lean against chew at crawl on fly over
    speak– sing–cry the silver wood.

    Reply
  7. Rachel says

    September 8, 2022 at 7:41 am

    Hi. Just wondering, is buying Earth Song completely worth it? I saw another book online called Earth Sounds and the synopsis of both seem almost the same. Which one should I buy?

    Reply
  8. Sharmen Oswald says

    September 8, 2022 at 9:00 am

    I can’t speak for the Earth Sounds, but Earth Song has been a great revival type work for me. It’s inspired my writing, prose and poetry. I love the musicality of Earth Song.

    Reply
    • Bethany R. says

      September 8, 2022 at 9:22 am

      Thanks for sharing your experience with the book, Sharmen!

      Reply
    • Rachel says

      September 13, 2022 at 8:52 am

      Thank you!

      Reply

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