New quick poem:

Garden Warfare

My neighbour gardens
like they are at war.
The power tools their artillery
the weedkiller their chemical agent.
Nature must be subdued
all wildness controlled.
I want the Earth to shout
what I can't
to fight back.
But it keeps the peace
like I.
It can only quietly
resist
by killing their brambles.
I can only hope
my organic words
take root
instead.

#naturepoetry #gardenpoetry #organicgardening #poetrycommunity

If you love poetry, nature, and wild places that foster healing journeys - you might enjoy Stars and Thyme 🍃✨

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My grandfather didn’t know he was a Taoist.
He had fished the river Awe for sixty years.
Life is sensed as a flowing movement,
a power like wind or water. When he cast,
it was the bank that moved, not the river…

—Lorn Macintyre, “Satori”
published in The Bridport Prize Anthology 2013 (Redcliffe Press, 2013)

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #fishing #naturepoetry #naturewriting #Zen

🌻 Ich fragte die Sonnenblume
nach dem Weg zum Licht
Sie wies mir den Weg
und antwortete nicht

I asked the sunflower
for the way to the light
It showed me the path
but gave no reply ☀️🌿

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Der diskrete Charme der Vergänglichkeit 🍃
Pfingstrosen im Wandel – mit einem Hauch Ewigkeit.

#Vanitas #melancholia #WerdenundVergehen
#Pfingstrose #Blütenzauber #Naturpoesie #Gartenpoet

The subtle charm of #transience
#Peony #FadingBeauty #NaturePoetry #GardenWhispers