Tag: thewildness
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25 June: Fair Eyed Sunset
Day 25. Describe a magical sunrise or sunset you have witnessed. How did it make you feel? Fair Eyed Sunset A boyand a girl. Flushed byheat. It’s that age of delightment,thoughts their bodies unhouse. They are waitingfor the #100 bus into town.No particular destination in mind. Just west.Just beyond the sunset’s backlights. It’s blazinglike a…
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19 June: Or Water #thewildness
Day 19: Write a poem inspired by the soothing sounds of a flowing stream. Or Water In this place, or moment,or water,in this full cup of bliss,there is an echowithin me. In this place, or time,I am a creek, swift withyoung water.Brimming over. I am thin waterover smooth stones. I hold tiny-bone fish, and I…
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18 June: There’s a Squirrel in the Birdbath
Day 18: Create a observation log of a specific species of bird that you have been monitoring throughout the challenge. There’s a Squirrel in the Birdbath A robin flies into the window,makes a sound.It’s nowhere to be seen. When a pigeon does that,there’s flapping and crashing,you’d think an assassin got at it. There’s a nest…
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17 June: It’s Pronounced [bi″fid-o-bak-tēr´e-um]
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Day 17. Write a letter to future generations, urging them to cherish the natural world. To my darling grandchildren, I know your mum loves her sprays, the antibacterial and anti-fungal, floral scented and nose-pinching, but to kill bad bacteria is to kill them all. In your gut. On your skin. In the sink and down…
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15 June: #thewildness Grey Squirrel
Day 15. Write a poem/flash fiction about a mischievous squirrel that causes chaos in your garden. A Grey Squirrel There’s a grey squirrelin the lavender, in the chives with blossoms gone to seedand faded in the sun, it’s drinking from the saucerset below the dill, and now it’s running through the fernsbetween the spiky spires.…
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13 June: Out Like a Lamb #thewildness
Day 13. Write a poem about the changing seasons and how they affect the behaviour of wildlife. In Like a Lion and Out Like a Lamb A snow-haired lamb, bornin a month that blows in like a lion,escapes its thick woollen coat, pulls black boots on to match its noseand runs off, up the hill…
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