Garden Songs -Nature Performs a Ritual
Garden Songs
Nature Performs a Ritual
by American Author, Poet, Artist
Lynda McKinney Lambert
Date – July 12, 2023
Just Published – in Summer Edition of
The Avocet, A Journal of Nature Poetry
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“Nature performs a ritual”
Nature performs a ritual
concerto of red cardinals
and red-breasted robins
bird-songs before dawn.
Daybreak.
Early summer landscape
permeated by a hot breeze
a short gust
sporadic puffs
intense rain
on yellow zinnias.
Japanese maple tree is
A crimson waterfall
of intricate cut leaves
splashed onto stony ground
conceals
hidden mourning dove
crouched silently in shadows
spreads sturdy grey wings low
shelters her nest
Evening.
Wild plants flourish
like an invasion
in a wind-swept vortex
preoccupied with infiltration
planting and sowing
the nightly routine.
Virginia Creeper vines twist around
sensitive wild pink peonies
all-night showers emboldened
the graceful bright green
Lady ferns saturated by the routine
concoction of a
summer thunderstorm.
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Published:
_The Avocet, A Journal of Nature Poetry, Summer Edition, 2023
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My MISSION STATEMENT
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I reveal what is forgotten, lost, or invisible through my art and writing.
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For faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1)
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