Tag Archives: Scott Bates

The Maple’s Annual Striptease

By Robin Bates | Published: October 25, 2015

Scott Bates describes the trees undergoing a months-long striptease in “Maple Dance.”

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The GOP Debate & the Ox-Frog Fable

By Robin Bates | Published: September 16, 2015

Last night’s GOP debate often reminded me of the fable of the ox and the frog, with people trying to puff themselves up with hardline positions to impress voters. Here’s a Scott Bates version of the fable.

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An ABC of Our Attack on the Earth

By Robin Bates | Published: September 3, 2015

In his “ABC of Radical Ecology,” Scott Bates sets forth an alphabet primer for various environmental ills.

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A Weed’s Zen Acceptance of Fate

By Robin Bates | Published: July 8, 2015

If you’re hostile towards garden weeds these days, here’s a very Zen-like Scott Bates poem from a weed’s point of view. Or maybe it’s an existentialist parable about free will.

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A “Greatest Generation” Vet Reflects

By Robin Bates | Published: May 9, 2015

In the reminiscence about his World War II experiences, my father finds it difficult to capture what it was really like

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Earth Day: Please Brake for Woolly Bears

By Robin Bates | Published: April 22, 2015

Scott Bates’ Earth Day poem calls for protecting even caterpillars. After all, sometimes they grow up to be Keats’ tiger moths with their “deep damasked wings.”