#nature poems on Hello Poetry

Lee Jul 21

We become soil and ash
We all do, decompose in the east
If my knees can’t carry me up the hills
If the millipedes can’t have a feast

May

#soil #ash #nature #death #end #gentle

Lee Jul 21

Bugs in a pill bottle

How can I have loans to pay,
when i can't even find a way,
to keep my guts from spilling out?

How can I save each bug,
So many small holes dug,
Where do I get little gravestones?

Struggling with life but I stop to save each bug

#bugs #nature #death #beetle #moth #fly #wings #soft #odd #animals

Lee Jul 21

The First Garter

Walk home,
Trot home
No moonlight around the sky
Laces come loose
Balance you lose
lean on the rock wall to tie

Hold up the flashlight
Hold up your head
See there’s a snake leaning on your thumb
Shriek, scare the creature
Dads laugh, beware the creature
But now snakes make your heart thrum

Written about the first time I ever met a snake in an unexpected situation, before I befriended them. I was walking back from my aunts camper when I leaned on the wall to tie my shoe, after I felt something I put my small flashlight on it to see a garter snake. The handsome fella was leaning on my thumb, but I was startled, heart POUNDING. Nowadays Herpetology (The study of reptiles and amphibians) is a huge passion of mine - Lee

#snake #walk #night #forest #moon #alone #childhood #memory #nature #creature

lisagrace Jul 20

Sussurus

She stands, it calls her
From the cold and damp, stale air
These walls - a cage now
Orange flowers a scatter
Past the plethora
To the quiet green, she moves
Shadowed sussurus
Of leaves, root and soil afoot
They whisper. She stops,
And settles into the grass
Her eyes, blinking slow
Cool gusts move
through her fingers

Softly, she exhales
She didn't know she'd withheld
That breath -
Now a tear

A poem about escaping what’s heavy and letting the earth hold some of it for you.
Sometimes healing starts with a whisper through the trees—and a breath you didn’t know you’d been holding.

#poetry #healing #nature #forest #grief #quiet #stillness #susurrus #softness #emotionalrelease

Lee Jul 20

Hot gluing the table

Crooked hoof, diagonal jog
We moved the tractors before the goat
when I wished that dam would clog
Pinball machines tip over
but when the point is to lean
Upside down, dripping clean

Put on a bubble and keep yourself alive
Scared it will pop and you’ll die
But yet you slam it,
into rocks,
walls,
stone,
slate,
and brick
The bubble will bend before bursting

#childhood #trauma #adhd #autism #anxious #nature #hooves #depressionpl

1DNA Jul 20

The Blue Cosmos

~
A firefly, me,
Trudged with a burden of light.
A fortuitous break
Came with my sight.

A blue cosmos
Bloomed along the trail—
An ephemeral ocean,
An insect’s sail.

So blue of love,
His innocent ways—
Through filmy eyes,
They melt in waves.

A mini sun
For a patch of blue;
Or so I wished
Would come soon true.

For I followed
A honeybee,
And through her wings
Floats thoughts unseen.

How cruel of me,
To betray my friend—
Through silent speech
And frowns I bend.

To compensate
The guilt I feel,
I'll become the all-seeing eye
Of the light she needs.

After all, she needs it
More than me.
I feed on rot—
She feeds on nectar sweet.

I am but a mini sun
Miles from an ocean blue
I’ll be your flask of light
Bond in emerald hues.
~

Long time

#pain #nature #love #light #blue #cosmos

Lee Jul 20

The Ocean

I don’t know the ocean
And she doesn’t know me
Surely she remembers more
But I’m a mountains and trees girl
Patience is key

Written on the balcony of the condo we rented for the week

#ocean #sea #beach #sand #nature #trees #woods #summer

Lee Jul 19

They don’t know the numbers

They don’t know the numbers,
Loser
*****
Lia
Lazy
Lezzy
Lia

Sorry for the Slurs, but I need to express these things, things that people say to hurt me

#lgbtq #lesbian #relationship #rude #homophobia #adhd #autism #nature #anxious

Lee Jul 19

But you're always confused

How the squirrel drops the nut-hat,
Perfectly where its to be used
For the millipedes to hide in
But I’m just confused

I have no skills other than to annoy
Unless my mouth is to be used
For reasons like his and her joy
But I’m still confused

#adhd #autism #neurodivergent #weird #nature #bugs #millipedes #lost #journey