nature poetry – innocence abroad

the wild garden

By: littlepeace November 21, 2021

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all the flowers in the wild garden
have yielded their spirits to autumn’s chill
and become dry brown ghosts, their seeds
falling out of cracked heads and cones

rime

i woke one morn in winter past
the world still hushed and sleeping fast

mother bun

By: littlepeace April 12, 2021

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mother bun thinks it’s fun
to nest beneath the tool shed

sunrise met the meadow

By: littlepeace November 11, 2020

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Sunrise met the meadow stark and spare

The art of noticing

By: littlepeace November 11, 2020November 11, 2020

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For me, wonder flows from paying attention to the world around me, whatever or wherever that happens to be at the moment. Paying attention to what is outside and beyond myself is necessary to get my eyes off me and onto the world God made, and then on to Himself.