If we are disconnected from others, it is first and foremost because we are disconnected from ourselves. We know our squares, our products, sums, and differences, but we do not always know the interior truth of self. I love the stories that poems usher into a space because being asked to write or read one is an open invitation to slow down, breath, and contemplate the vibrations of our thoughts and feelings as they are moved by the invisible, within and without.

 It makes me wonder if, among all Nature’s creatures, spiders are not the most underappreciated poets of all –  waiting as they do amidst the long silences, perched on gossamer threads of silk and questioning, feeling for the slightest movement to tell them that some new and unknown gift has arrived in answer to their dark, motionless quests . . .

This page is the beginning of a collection of nature and garden poems for people to read and contemplate. There are also prompts to help them write poems of their own. As with all the pages and branches on this site, the object is to promote conversation, storytelling, and connection to self and others so that we can all come a bit closer to understanding and operating off the truth of our common humanity.

• Bee! I’m expecting you, By Emily Dickinson
• Autumn,
  By Rainer Maria Rilke
• Brotherly Love, By Langston Hughes
• Poems about Irony in Nature
  
  (this page is in progress. More links will be added as time goes on. And please feel free to suggest to us more additions!)