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"What do the birds of prey have to tell you? Pause feel the wind in your tail feathers Red-tailed Hawk carries your morning prayers ..." Gwendolyn Morgan from "Diurnal Raptors," Before The Sun Rises, Homebound Publications, 2019.…

Anna’s Hummingbird in the PNW snow mid-February (photography by iris) From unexpected snow for the Lunar New Year, Year of the Ox to Valentine's Day to late February, each day is a gift. We prepare for Spring Migration, greening, blossoms. "Creating…

Three chanterelle mushrooms in the forest (Cantharellus cibarius) photo by Monticola. Epiphany signifies illumination, a sudden intuitive perception, a moment of revelation. In the midst of an on-going global pandemic and much chaos, may we allow the earth to illuminate our path. …

Sunrise, New Moon in Scorpio “We wake; we wake the day, the light rising in us like sun – our breath a prayer brushing against the feather in our hands….” -- Gail Tremblay, Onondaga, Mi’Kmaq, from Indian Singing in the…

“Listen to the howl of our spiritual brother, the wolf, for how it goes with him, so it goes for the natural world.” …

All the warm nights sleep in moonlight keep letting it go into you do this all your life do this you will shine outward in old age the moon will think you are the moon Jacob Nibenegenesabe,_a poem from The Wishing Bone Cycle: Narrative Poems…

photograph by Hayley Crews "Western Bluebirds, American Robins," is a poem I wrote for the virtual 2020 Peace & Justice Fair in Vancouver, Southwest Washington. https://vancouverpeaceandjusticefair.org/fair-day/ With gratitude to New Verse News, you'll see the posting of the poem on…

With gratitude to TheNewVerse.News for publishing a poem today that emerged from a virtual Willamette Writers Resilience workshop with Claudia F. Saleeby Savage.   The New Verse News presents politically progressive poetry on current events and topical issues. See Saturday, August 8, 2020 6:00 AM:…