a photograph by Ethel Mortenson Davis
Tag Archives: nature
Geese
a children’s poem by Thomas Davis
The night is like a big black pot
That’s full of laughing stars.
The stars are twinkling, bright headlights
Of big, black motor cars.
I know, for out within the woods,
Bush-hiding from the sky,
I heard the far off beeping honks
Of cars within the sky!
Filed under Poetry, Thomas Davis
Dispossessed
by Ethel Mortenson Davis
She waits
at the automatic doors
of the Food Mart
knowing food
is close.
She has recently
given birth
and is swollen
with milk.
She makes eye contact
with every person
coming out of the doors,
but most don’t notice her.
One person says,
“Look at that dog.”
She finally leaves.
Filed under Ethel Mortenson Davis, Poetry
A Blur of Wings
a photograph by Ethel Mortenson Davis
Filed under Art, Ethel Mortenson Davis, Photography
Oriole
by Ethel Mortenson Davis
Oriole throws
a cup of stars
my way,
and I’m hooked
forever.
Filed under Ethel Mortenson Davis, Poetry
Chaos
by Ethel Mortenson Davis
The piñons
have become brittle
in this dry desert heat.
How I yearn
for the sound of water—
a sound of rain
running in rivulets
and then into fast
moving streams,
finally joining
the rushing rivers.
How I’ve yearned
for the blue-green arms
of Lake Superior
to hold me again
with its disordered forests,
with every kind
of fern and moss
dotting its shoreline.
But the giant piñon,
in its fluid dance
toward the sky,
twists and turns
into the deepest
part of us
and gives peace
to our psyches.
The chaos of nature
brings the mind
to order—
the unplanned spacings
of land and water,
wilderness,
keeps the soul
from flying apart.
Filed under Ethel Mortenson Davis, Poetry
Wind Chimes, Sunlight, and Clouds
a photograph by Sophia Wood, our granddaughter
Filed under Art, Photography
Milkweed Flower, Butterfly, and Honey Bee
photograph by Sonja Bingen, our daughter
Filed under Art, Photography
