Prompt response: Nature poem

Hey there. It's been a while, I know. But moving is bad for the blogging. I've been working on this poem for a while now (since I posted the prompt a few weeks ago), and while I don't think it's done, I'm sharing the first five lines here with you: The bush, he says, the…

Prompt: Nature

In the previous post, we learned about Whitman and Merwin, as well as Emerson, and their fascination with Nature. We learned how Nature, in all its grandeur, makes for a powerful and, well, easy subject. This week, do some free writing about Nature. Take a walk and scribble down some notes in that notebook you…

Nature and Poetry

A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child?. . . .I do not know what it is any more than he. -- Walt Whitman, "A child said, What is the grass?" Nature has long been a popular topic for poets. Its serenity, violence,…