Nature | Valiant Scribe

After Coming Out of the Cocoon, a Poem by Sofiul Azam

if I started, “Once upon a time, not so long ago, lived a man with a habit of regretting his mistakes and making more in the process,”...

Whales, a Poem by Burt Rashbaum

You loved our songs. named us by our flukes, watched entranced as we danced on the waves but we knew we were still endangered....

Pandemic Spring and Then What? a Poem by Elaine Zimmerman

The groundhog does not see his shadow today but I give you mine for the number of springs we missed together. Buds will open in this...

And It Was Good, a Poem by Marjorie Maddox

Not the green-grey sludge snaking to the river’s edge. Not the sun’s overdone orb baking the snake to a dry bed of dust. Not the hands of...

Dill, a Poem by Erin Covey-Smith

It is hot, hotter than it was ever meant to be. The air chewable, our thoughts limp as the beanstalks in the garden. Night a stultifying...

I Hear the Water, a Poem by Ann Christine Tabaka

I hear the water. It calls to me from lakes, streams, and rivers. My mother was the ocean. She carried me on her shoulders above raging...

The Unbearable Age, a Poem by Njukang Princeley

She sits upon a rock, weeping And watching the sky as it folds Into buckets of toxic smoke Rising from the endless burning Of forest and...

Moon in the Time of Coronavirus, a Poem by Michael Shen

moon veiled by tissue clouds glides through, flirtatious filly, back slapper, money man, and filters light fickle on our rock, where...

The Summit of Choice, a Poem by Angela Costi

She is sitting on the edge of a mountain in the Annapurna, her face, away from the camera, her gaze focused on the Lamjung peak,

Resurgemus, a Poem by VaL Smit

The forest lain out beneath the iron sky of winter Is stiffened in frost Frozen in fog The mists as chill as death wandering to the...