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Tag Archives: Scott Bates
Earth Day: Please Brake for Woolly Bears
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.”
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The River’s Blood Turned to Stone
This Scott Bates fable captures the tragedy of California’s drought.
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The Love Songs We Hear Every Spring
Scott Bates finds song birds more entertaining but ultimately opts for silent swans, who mate for life.
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What Lemming Migrations Mean
Scott Bates’ articulates existential despair in a lyrical poem about lemmings.
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In Support of School Prayer (with a Twist)
A Florida bill allows prayers to be read at assemblies but can’t designate a particular religion, offering openings to various sects. Scott Bates provides the school children with some possibilities.
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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, Nature Comments closed
The Divine Enters thru Imagination’s Holes
If Christmas is about the entrance of the divine into the human, then works of the imagination are always filled with the Christmas spirit.
The Quest of the Marvelous Tree
In this mystical Scott Bates poem, the Christmas tree becomes a magical key that unlocks the darkness.
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