Skip to content

nomdeplume

  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
Words from Anonymous

Category: ecology

Play misty

April 17, 2022 by nomdeplume707, posted in ecology, gardens, poetry

Sometimes,

early on

a misty morning,

the tangled threads

of our lives

seem to form

a pattern.

But the Sun

soon puts a

stop to that

wishful thinking.

Tagged gardens, poetryLeave a comment

Morning has broken

April 16, 2022 by nomdeplume707, posted in ecology, gardens, poetry

Few things more pleasant,

in old age or young,

than sitting on a hill,

on a clear, almost frosty

morning, mist filling the

valleys, and listening

to a butcher bird

song notes

cascading through

the silent air,

while your dog sits,

quietly, beside you.

Tagged dogs, gardens, poetryLeave a comment

Achoo!

October 31, 2020 by nomdeplume707, posted in ecology, gardens, poetry

A breath

of fresh

air in

Spring is

full of

pollen.

Tagged ecology, gardens, poetryLeave a comment

We’re all individuals

October 16, 2020 by nomdeplume707, posted in ecology, gardens, poetry

Cabbage White

butterflies

seem boring

to me. All

exactly

the same in

their looks and

behaviour.

But I guess

they don’t seem

like that to

each other.

Tagged ecology, gardens, poetryLeave a comment

Great eggspectations

September 22, 2020 by nomdeplume707, posted in ecology, evolution, gardens, History, poetry

Every day,

somewhere in the

world, billions

of birds sit on

their nests, content

and confident

about the eggs

that they cherish.

Tagged ecology, evolution, gardens, History, poetryLeave a comment

Point of view

July 24, 2020 by nomdeplume707, posted in ecology, gardens, poetry

I hate the

sound of a

rabbit, at

night, screaming

in the jaws

of a fox.

But I can’t

hear the fox

cubs crying

with hunger.

Tagged animals, Australia, ecology, gardens, poetryLeave a comment

Happy to see you

June 25, 2020June 25, 2020 by nomdeplume707, posted in ecology, gardens, poetry

The Choughs

are back

doing some

gardening for

me, and the

sight of their

ungainly walk

and their happy

family warms

the cockles of

my cold winter

heart.

Tagged animals, Australia, birds, Chough, ecology, gardens, poetryLeave a comment

Falling down

June 23, 2020June 23, 2020 by nomdeplume707, posted in ecology, gardens, poetry

Once I saw

on the ground

under trees

blue fragments

of a small

egg. But were

they from an

egg that fell

or one that

had hatched?

I didn’t

know just what

I should feel.

Tagged animals, birds, ecology, gardens, poetryLeave a comment

Seasons

June 7, 2020 by nomdeplume707, posted in climate change, ecology, gardens, History, poetry

Plumes of smoke

on a cold

Winter’s day

bring thoughts

of warmth and

community

and human

busyness and

achievement.

Plumes of smoke

on a hot

Summer’s day

bring thoughts

of destruction

and terror

and loss and

anger and

failure.

Tagged animals, anxiety, Australia, bushfire, ecology, fire, History, poetryLeave a comment

Love birds

June 4, 2020 by nomdeplume707, posted in ecology, gardens, poetry

Birds in pairs,

galahs,

magpies,

rosellas,

butcher birds,

crows,

peewits,

birds in pairs,

thinking of

Spring.

Tagged animals, ecology, gardens, poetryLeave a comment

Posts navigation

Older posts

Search

Categories

  • atheism
  • Bon mots
  • cancer
  • climate change
  • ecology
  • evolution
  • gardens
  • guns
  • History
  • literature
  • media
  • poetry
  • politics
  • Pratchett
  • science
  • tax
  • Uncategorized

Tags

age Amazon America animals anxiety archaeology art astrology atheism Australia autobiography birds Bolsonaro bushfire cancer Central America chance chickens Chough Christchurch Civil War climate change Clive James coronavirus covid-19 dogs Donald Trump eagles ecology evolution family family history fascism fire flat earth fossils gardens genealogy guns haiku health heart History iran Jane Fonda Jonathan Miller koalas literature May media memoir Murdoch nuclear power Ogden Nash old age philately poetry politics Pratchett Pythagoras racism refugees religion rock art royalty Samuel Pepys science Sedaris snake tax Tina Turner Trump vaccination war Weatherwax

Search

Follow nomdeplume on WordPress.com

Recent Posts

  • Best friends from 1945 to 2022
  • May Day, M’aidez

Navigation

  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Follow Following
    • nomdeplume
    • Join 199 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • nomdeplume
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...