The Song of the Woods The song of the woods We all can hear it Whether with ear or with eye Or with nose or with spirit The birds sing the melody Some powerful some vain but the blue jay cries out, almost in pain The trees and the wind And the earth […]
Archive for October, 2016
Poems from the Spot
Posted in Uncategorized on October 26, 2016 | 1 Comment »
10-23-16
Posted in Uncategorized on October 23, 2016 | 3 Comments »
100 yards before I enter Centennial Woods there was an eruption of sound in a planted Norway spruce stand. The red squirrels were chattering, the chickadees were chirping, and the blue jays were blaring. All this commotion could not have been for me. I paused and looked around for the blue jays and spotted a […]
October 14-15
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On the other side of the telephone wire clearing, past a grove of white pines I sit on a fallen white pine in and amongst an incredible diversity of organisms, my new seat as an observer. The 100 foot long tree is nestled over two small ridges on the side of a increasingly slanting hill […]