#HappyHalloween2020

'Trees look as if the wind
has bitten chunks
Out of their golden flesh, and let it dribble
Down its chin and to the ground.
They rise like hands from graves—
Half skeleton, half skin.'
unnaturepoems.com/2018/10/31/gho…

'It is not too late to shout out, 'No!'
To the wall-builders, to the bulldozers,
To the ones who want to harvest fear for power,
And turn our final years into a war.'

unnaturepoems.com/2019/08/28/how…

#WeNeedPower
#OurLivesMatter
#EndPoliceBrutalityinNigeria

Poetslounge
(Un)Nature Poems
Poetry for Nigeria, by Nigerians.

In honor of the #firstdayoffall , a reminder that the #ClimateCrisis means we can no longer take the rhythm of the seasons for granted: unnaturepoems.com/2018/10/31/gho…

'I saw a long poem taking shape
sprouting into our empty space'

This from Lucy Writers' Platform is beautiful for how it combines the visual and the auditory:

The #wildfiresmoke has blown into #Seattle again, so I am reposting this from two years ago:

'The sun rises red
Like a portent
And all day the sky is dense
With something that’s too flat for clouds,
Too brown for mist.'

unnaturepoems.com/2018/10/24/hom…

'Vertical routes are still the strangest for they defy gravity;

hence paradise is in the sky. But defiance is in our blood—'

The last piece in Lucy Writers' Platform Flora and Fauna series is this stunner by Pramila Venkateswaran: lucywritersplatform.com/2020/07/02/spa…

Reposting for #July4th :

'So, you nations of the world
Who love your developments, and your displays,
Which will you choose?

Fireworks, or fireflies?'

unnaturepoems.com/2019/07/04/fir…

Missing bobolinks today:

'In them I heard the landscape open up—
The steep and narrow rockway between pine and bluff
Relax and stretch into a meadow
That gave space for the strangeness of their song...'

unnaturepoems.com/2018/11/07/bob…

'Now we shelter under the leylandii
and through the branches, light seeps in.'

If you're looking for a #SundayRead , check out Shamini's beautiful poem for Lucy Writers' Platform, next in the #FaunaandFloraofForeignPlaces series:

lucywritersplatform.com/2020/06/27/cyp…

I am so incredibly honored to have my poem 'Maiden's Tears' included in Lucy Writers' Platform's series #FaunaandFloraofForeignPlaces , curated by the visionary Usha Akella. The whole series is full of wonder and beauty, and I can't believe I get to be a part of it: lucywritersplatform.com/2020/06/21/mai…

'Gliding in fire-blue waves, you wrap the yellowing cottonwoods,
torch maples turquoise.'

These are wonderful words in a wonderful series from Lucy Writers' Platform:

Happy #MayDay2020 ! Enjoy the spring and don't cross any picket lines.
unnaturepoems.com/2019/05/01/hon…