Forest
The forest is home to wonderful plants and delightful animals, but also all the mysterious and playful creatures of the night. Earthy and rich, these poems are a celebration of nature’s mystery.
8 poems
Epiphanyby Sophie Strand, contemporary“My heart was made to be split open, like the milkweed pod, and scattered”
How long we were fool'dby Walt Whitman, 1819 ~ 1892“We have voided all but our own freedom, all but our own joy”
Love, mere loveby Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806 ~ 1861“Let temple burn, or flax and an equal light leaps in the flames from cedar plank or weed. And love is fire.”
Marriage Morningby Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1809 ~ 1892“This is the golden morning of love, and you are his morning star”
Song of Wandering Aengusby W.B. Yeats, 1865 ~ 1939“We will pluck til times and times are done, the silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the sun”
We are youngby J.R.R. Tolkien, 1892 ~ 1973“We have become as one, deep rooted in the soil of Life and tangled in the sweet growth”
When faces called flowersby e.e. cummings, 1894 ~ 1962“Alive; we’re alive, dear: it’s(kiss me now)spring!”
Your Cathedralby Wilfred O'Dea, c1910? ~ unknown“You draw from me broken now holy that yes”