Tag Archives: nature poetry

Waiting in the Rain

Posted on December 1, 2022 by alicebarrett

I am standing in the rain, Just standing here, looking into the grey air, Getting wet. . The country is raining down all that is worst in our nature As if these things had always been with us, In threatening … Continue reading →

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Time Does Not Repeat Itself

Posted on March 22, 2016 by alicebarrett

Oh no, time does not repeat itself, It spirals, perhaps, one turn reverberating on the others, But time does not repeat.   Nature’s variation is endless, Orderly, yet endless.   Everything done will be undone.   Everything undone waits for … Continue reading →

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Grandma’s Prayer

Posted on December 15, 2015 by alicebarrett

  ’twas a sad time what with the animals dying and the children sick and the full moon waning. . The fields were laid to rest and Even the prata were frozen well below the ground. . The Good Folk … Continue reading →

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Tim and the Tiny Man

Posted on December 2, 2015 by alicebarrett

Tim looked down as he came over the knell And a tiny man with shears was squatting there. . Tim stopped in amazement and stared, And as he did, the tiny man leaned over his shadow. . Tim’s shadow stopped … Continue reading →

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What It Is

Posted on June 17, 2015 by alicebarrett

What a Tree Is “Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there….” Yeats Nothing is just what it is. Look at that tree. See centuries of meaning on its bark, Put there by poets since cave … Continue reading →

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The Shielding Tree by Black Elk

Posted on December 13, 2014 by alicebarrett

    The international conference on the climate is being held in Lima, Peru. This poem is by Black Elk.   Hey! Lean to hear my feeble voice. At the center of the sacred hoop You have said that I … Continue reading →

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When there was night

Posted on November 19, 2014 by alicebarrett

(written for 30 Poems in November.Please go to http://www.razoo.com/story/poems-for-dollars to Pledge for The Center for New Americans0   When there was night Endless stars in constant motion, moon shadows, deep sleep, brilliant dreams, waking dreams, shared dreams, zodiacal light, blue, … Continue reading →

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Silence of the Snow

Posted on December 30, 2013 by alicebarrett

The silence of the snow crushes The silence when the freezer stops shocks The silence of that bird yearns The silence of those trees envelops The silence of our empty house crushes shocks yearns envelops The silence of your death … Continue reading →

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The Bridge in the Woodland

Posted on December 23, 2013 by alicebarrett

It came out of nowhere, that bridge, A rusted anomaly in trees that had devoured the fields before Metal bridges began. . Along we come, A rusty Bondo-ed auto that should be a memory, but Lives beyond its time. . … Continue reading →

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