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Poet Laura: Gardens and Grandpa

By Sandra Fox Murphy 10 Comments

pink flower open

Sandra Fox Murphy, Tweetspeak’s Poet Laura, welcomes Spring with a reflection on gardening and flower poems.

Filed Under: Blog, Flower Poems, Garden Poems, Nature Poems, Poet Laura

Poems to Listen By: Yondering—7: When You Came Back

By Laurie Klein 2 Comments

pines on river

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Poems to Listen By: Earth Song—9: But You Thought You Knew

By Laurie Klein 5 Comments

mountain lake in green

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Poet Laura: Possibilities

By Michelle Rinaldi Ortega 2 Comments

dew dripping off leaf

This National Poetry Month, our Poet Laura, Michelle Ortega, postpones reading poems to chickens and considers other poetic possibilities.

Filed Under: Blog, Chicken poems, National Poetry Month, Nature Poems, Poet Laura, Poetic Earth Month

Poems to Listen By: Earth Song—8: Dreaming Backwards

By Laurie Klein 1 Comment

dreamy reflection in pond with purple

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Poems to Listen By: Earth Song—7: Dream of Winter

By Laurie Klein Leave a Comment

infrared winter trees

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Year of the Monarch: Butterfly Dreams

By Laura Boggess 7 Comments

star flowers

Laura Boggess dreams of the the monarch’s annual migration and wonders poetically if the monarchs, also, dream of her.

Filed Under: Blog, Butterfly Poems, Year of the Monarch

Poems to Listen By: Earth Song—5: The Edge

By Laurie Klein 2 Comments

sunrise over ridge

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Poems to Listen By: Earth Song—2: A Meeting

By Laurie Klein 6 Comments

sailboat in water and sunlight

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Poet Laura: Trees, Seasons, and Planting

By Michelle Rinaldi Ortega 11 Comments

deer with tangled tree

Michelle Ortega, Tweetspeak’s incoming Poet Laura, reflects on the changing seasons, a walking homecoming, and trees dying and planted.

Filed Under: Blog, Nature Poems, Poet Laura, Tree Poems, Walking

Poems to Listen By: Earth Song—1: Beefsteak

By Laurie Klein 4 Comments

red fall leaves with bokeh

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The Honey Field-1

By Laura Boggess 12 Comments

Oswego Creek trees and frost

Read the first installment in a delightful new serial novel by Mildred’s Garden author Laura Boggess. Then check back every two weeks for more!

Filed Under: Earth Song, Nature Poems, The Honey Field

Flowers of California: Lily of the Nile

By Tania Runyan 5 Comments

purple lily of the nile

After a lifetime of taking the unassuming flower for granted, Tania Runyan pens a love letter to lily of the Nile.

Filed Under: Blog, California, Flower Poems, Flowers of California, poetry prompt

Earth Song Book Club: Poems in the Silence

By Rebecca D. Martin 7 Comments

dock in silence in sunset

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Earth Song Book Club: Garden Poems

By Rebecca D. Martin 2 Comments

Leafy greens in garden

In this week’s Earth Song discussion, Rebecca Martin starts smack dab in the middle of garden poems.

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Earth Song Book Club: Force of Nature

By Rebecca D. Martin 9 Comments

misty rocky shore

In this week’s book club discussion, Rebecca Martin moves through the poems in Earth Song as a force of nature.

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Earth Song Book Club: The Wild Places

By Rebecca D. Martin 11 Comments

yellow buds in spring trees

In this week’s Earth Song book club, Rebecca Martin considers the power of poems to transport the reader to another place, whether the woodlands or the wilds.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Earth Song, Ecopoetry, Nature Poems, Patron Only, Tree Poems

Earth Song Book Club Announcement

By Rebecca D. Martin 6 Comments

bamboo forest

Rebecca D. Martin announces a new book club discussion of the symphonic nature poem collection edited by Sara Barkat, Earth Song.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Earth Song, Ecopoetry, Nature Poems

Poems to Listen By: Moonstruck 01—The Wind and the Moon

By Laurie Klein 9 Comments

light reflected in water for the wind and the moon poem

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Poet Laura: Brain Fog, Fatigue and the Fireflies

By Laura Boggess 9 Comments

sunlight on buds - poet laura fireflies

As our worlds begin to reopen, the brain fog, fatigue, and discomfort can linger. Our Poet Laura, Laura Boggess, helps us reemerge with the fireflies.

Filed Under: Blog, Nature Poems, Pandemic Journal, Poet Laura

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