After unexpectedly encountering a flock of wild turkeys, I had to share these three wild turkey poems.
Tag Archives: Nature
Wild Turkey Sighting in Tennessee
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Field Notes", "these wild turkeys", "Wild Turkeys on the Road Near Home", Mark Seth Lender, Max Reif, Tim Poland, wild turkeys Comments closed
The Pleasure of a Pathless Wood
For Americans, wilderness is a more unkempt affair than it for Europeans.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Alexander Pope, Childe Harold, Evangeline, forests, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lord Byron, Romanticism, wilderness, Windsor Forest Comments closed
Out of the Blackness Every Morning
Many of Mary Oliver’s poems, including “The Sun,” function well as Easter poems.
Pesticides vs. Sweetness and Wings
Monarch butterflies and bees are in grave danger. Poems by Scott Bates and Mary Oliver remind us what we will lose if we don’t move to protect them.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "The Underside of Heaven's Gates" endangered species, bees, environmental devastation, happiness, hive collapse, Mary Oliver, monarch butterflies, Scott Bates Comments closed
Marianne’s Passion for Dead Leaves
In “Sense and Sensibility,” Austen gets us to reflect on the attractions and dangers of Nature.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Classicism, James Thomson, Jane Austen, picturesque, Romanticism, Seasons, Sense and Sensibility Comments closed
Hydrocarbons Unleash an Angry God
Euripides’ “The Bacchae” can be read as a parable of climate change denialism.
