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I wish I were a tree

I wish I were a tree.

Rooted to one place.
Friend of the wind.
Sun bather.
Rain catcher.

Home to many.
Servant to seasons.
Shade to the hot human.

I am sure I would find the prunings painful,
the winters cold,
and perhaps I would worry about the inevitable fall.

But I doubt it.

For the roar of sap within and the caress of the elements without would drown out all other noisy distractions from what it means to simply
be
Tree.

September 12, 2014

I wish I were a tree

I wish I were a tree.

Rooted to one place.
Friend of the wind.
Sun bather.
Rain catcher.

Home to many.
Servant to seasons.
Shade to the hot human.

I am sure I would find the prunings painful,
the winters cold,
and perhaps I would worry about the inevitable fall.

But I doubt it.

For the roar of sap within and the caress of the elements without would drown out all other noisy distractions from what it means to simply
be
Tree.

September 12, 2014

I wish I were a tree

I wish I were a tree.

Rooted to one place.
Friend of the wind.
Sun bather.
Rain catcher.

Home to many.
Servant to seasons.
Shade to the hot human.

I am sure I would find the prunings painful,
the winters cold,
and perhaps I would worry about the inevitable fall.

But I doubt it.

For the roar of sap within and the caress of the elements without would drown out all other noisy distractions from what it means to simply
be
Tree.

September 12, 2014

I wish I were a tree

I wish I were a tree.

Rooted to one place.
Friend of the wind.
Sun bather.
Rain catcher.

Home to many.
Servant to seasons.
Shade to the hot human.

I am sure I would find the prunings painful,
the winters cold,
and perhaps I would worry about the inevitable fall.

But I doubt it.

For the roar of sap within and the caress of the elements without would drown out all other noisy distractions from what it means to simply
be
Tree.

September 12, 2014

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They're a pain in the ass to get paid by because you'll have to go through John Hopkins University payroll, but the folks doing the publishing are nice.

https://ecodesigncollective.org/call-for-submissions-antidotes-to-toxicity-2-litter-summer-fall-2026-issue/

#CallsForSubmission #WritingCommunity #EcoPoetry #solarpunk

They're a pain in the ass to get paid by because you'll have to go through John Hopkins University payroll, but the folks doing the publishing are nice.

https://ecodesigncollective.org/call-for-submissions-antidotes-to-toxicity-2-litter-summer-fall-2026-issue/

#CallsForSubmission #WritingCommunity #EcoPoetry #solarpunk

They're a pain in the ass to get paid by because you'll have to go through John Hopkins University payroll, but the folks doing the publishing are nice.

https://ecodesigncollective.org/call-for-submissions-antidotes-to-toxicity-2-litter-summer-fall-2026-issue/

#CallsForSubmission #WritingCommunity #EcoPoetry #solarpunk

They're a pain in the ass to get paid by because you'll have to go through John Hopkins University payroll, but the folks doing the publishing are nice.

https://ecodesigncollective.org/call-for-submissions-antidotes-to-toxicity-2-litter-summer-fall-2026-issue/

#CallsForSubmission #WritingCommunity #EcoPoetry #solarpunk

"Memory As A Form Of Resistance"
A long eco-poem by Gerry McGovern @gerrymcgovern

#Poetry #Ecopoetry #Degrowth #Collapse

"Memory As A Form Of Resistance"
A long eco-poem by Gerry McGovern @gerrymcgovern

#Poetry #Ecopoetry #Degrowth #Collapse

"Memory As A Form Of Resistance"
A long eco-poem by Gerry McGovern @gerrymcgovern

#Poetry #Ecopoetry #Degrowth #Collapse

"Memory As A Form Of Resistance"
A long eco-poem by Gerry McGovern @gerrymcgovern

#Poetry #Ecopoetry #Degrowth #Collapse

How does it begin?
With the piper’s drone
with the coarse fabric of the land…

“Ben Dorain: An Ecopoetic Translation”, HUMANITIES 8/2, 2019

Garry MacKenzie on translating “Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain” into a 21st-century ecopoem

4/5

https://doi.org/10.3390/h8020113

#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #18thcentury #translation #ecopoetry

How does it begin?
With the piper’s drone
with the coarse fabric of the land…

“Ben Dorain: An Ecopoetic Translation”, HUMANITIES 8/2, 2019

Garry MacKenzie on translating “Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain” into a 21st-century ecopoem

4/5

https://doi.org/10.3390/h8020113

#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #18thcentury #translation #ecopoetry

How does it begin?
With the piper’s drone
with the coarse fabric of the land…

“Ben Dorain: An Ecopoetic Translation”, HUMANITIES 8/2, 2019

Garry MacKenzie on translating “Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain” into a 21st-century ecopoem

4/5

https://doi.org/10.3390/h8020113

#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #18thcentury #translation #ecopoetry

How does it begin?
With the piper’s drone
with the coarse fabric of the land…

“Ben Dorain: An Ecopoetic Translation”, HUMANITIES 8/2, 2019

Garry MacKenzie on translating “Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain” into a 21st-century ecopoem

4/5

https://doi.org/10.3390/h8020113

#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #18thcentury #translation #ecopoetry

Cow Green

A glacial wait
for the gentian to spread
the violet slopes again

when the man-made flood came
the purple primrose closed its eye

which had known only stars
and the closer teeth of sheep

#ecopoetry #poetry #teesdale

small winter poems

pin up
the sodden veil
of the day
all the dark trees
of the dene
wet through
to their roots


-

all the difficulties
of the dark months
even gorse agrees
to withhold


-

a damaged rivermeets anotherdamaged riverbutting headsand bellowingthe weirwhips them on-golden plovercalling overthe ancientsalt pansthe momentpocketed-

to carry always
the garden
with you
allelopathic elder
monoecious hazel
the pond broken
and refrozen
into peaks
of white


-

gulls in
grey and rain
score their white
across the sky
how are they
there      you here


-

#ecopoetry #imagist #poetry #winter

I reviewed the amazing EG Cunningham today in the Seattle Star! Who's ready for some #queer #ecopoetry? :3
https://www.seattlestar.net/2026/01/the-nihilistic-ecopoetry-of-eg-cunningham/

I reviewed the amazing EG Cunningham today in the Seattle Star! Who's ready for some #queer #ecopoetry? :3
https://www.seattlestar.net/2026/01/the-nihilistic-ecopoetry-of-eg-cunningham/

I reviewed the amazing EG Cunningham today in the Seattle Star! Who's ready for some #queer #ecopoetry? :3
https://www.seattlestar.net/2026/01/the-nihilistic-ecopoetry-of-eg-cunningham/

I reviewed the amazing EG Cunningham today in the Seattle Star! Who's ready for some #queer #ecopoetry? :3
https://www.seattlestar.net/2026/01/the-nihilistic-ecopoetry-of-eg-cunningham/

My poem "-ocide" is now available to read and/or listen to on Eavesdrop Magazine.

https://www.eavesdropmagazine.ca

#poetry #PoetryCommunity #EcoPoetry #WritersOfMastodon @indigenousauthors

My poem "-ocide" is now available to read and/or listen to on Eavesdrop Magazine.

https://www.eavesdropmagazine.ca

#poetry #PoetryCommunity #EcoPoetry #WritersOfMastodon @indigenousauthors

My poem "-ocide" is now available to read and/or listen to on Eavesdrop Magazine.

https://www.eavesdropmagazine.ca

#poetry #PoetryCommunity #EcoPoetry #WritersOfMastodon @indigenousauthors

My poem "-ocide" is now available to read and/or listen to on Eavesdrop Magazine.

https://www.eavesdropmagazine.ca

#poetry #PoetryCommunity #EcoPoetry #WritersOfMastodon @indigenousauthors

Ojalá el futuro

#Poema #Ecopoetry #EcoPoema #Futur #Future #Poesía #Writing #Climate #Art #Literature #LitFediverse #PoetryCommunity #Poeta #Versos #Nature #Naturaleza #Hope #Esperanza #Planet #Earth

Ojalá el futuro

#Poema #Ecopoetry #EcoPoema #Futur #Future #Poesía #Writing #Climate #Art #Literature #LitFediverse #PoetryCommunity #Poeta #Versos #Nature #Naturaleza #Hope #Esperanza #Planet #Earth

Ojalá el futuro

#Poema #Ecopoetry #EcoPoema #Futur #Future #Poesía #Writing #Climate #Art #Literature #LitFediverse #PoetryCommunity #Poeta #Versos #Nature #Naturaleza #Hope #Esperanza #Planet #Earth

My poems "Honey in the End Times" and "Raspberry Elegy" have been published in ALOCASIA's Indigenous Plantcestor issue. https://alocasia.org/2025/08/15/shantell-powell-honey-in-the-end-times-and-raspberry-elegy/ #IndigenousCreatives #poetry #Ecopoetry #PoetryCommunity

My poems "Honey in the End Times" and "Raspberry Elegy" have been published in ALOCASIA's Indigenous Plantcestor issue. https://alocasia.org/2025/08/15/shantell-powell-honey-in-the-end-times-and-raspberry-elegy/ #IndigenousCreatives #poetry #Ecopoetry #PoetryCommunity

My poems "Honey in the End Times" and "Raspberry Elegy" have been published in ALOCASIA's Indigenous Plantcestor issue. https://alocasia.org/2025/08/15/shantell-powell-honey-in-the-end-times-and-raspberry-elegy/ #IndigenousCreatives #poetry #Ecopoetry #PoetryCommunity

My poems "Honey in the End Times" and "Raspberry Elegy" have been published in ALOCASIA's Indigenous Plantcestor issue. https://alocasia.org/2025/08/15/shantell-powell-honey-in-the-end-times-and-raspberry-elegy/ #IndigenousCreatives #poetry #Ecopoetry #PoetryCommunity

“The richness of Donnchadh Bàn’s language becomes a metaphor for the richness of nature... The poem is a song & the music itself becomes a metaphor for the co-existence of different forms of life”

—Meg Bateman introduces Ben Dorain: a conversation with a mountain, by Garry MacKenzie, (Irish Pages Press/Cló An Mhíl Bhuí, 2021)

2/4

https://irishpages.org/in-praise-of-ben-dorain/?v=7885444af42e

#Scottish #literature #poetry #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #18thcentury #ecology #environment #ecopoetry

“The richness of Donnchadh Bàn’s language becomes a metaphor for the richness of nature... The poem is a song & the music itself becomes a metaphor for the co-existence of different forms of life”

—Meg Bateman introduces Ben Dorain: a conversation with a mountain, by Garry MacKenzie, (Irish Pages Press/Cló An Mhíl Bhuí, 2021)

2/4

https://irishpages.org/in-praise-of-ben-dorain/?v=7885444af42e

#Scottish #literature #poetry #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #18thcentury #ecology #environment #ecopoetry

“The richness of Donnchadh Bàn’s language becomes a metaphor for the richness of nature... The poem is a song & the music itself becomes a metaphor for the co-existence of different forms of life”

—Meg Bateman introduces Ben Dorain: a conversation with a mountain, by Garry MacKenzie, (Irish Pages Press/Cló An Mhíl Bhuí, 2021)

2/4

https://irishpages.org/in-praise-of-ben-dorain/?v=7885444af42e

#Scottish #literature #poetry #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #18thcentury #ecology #environment #ecopoetry

“The richness of Donnchadh Bàn’s language becomes a metaphor for the richness of nature... The poem is a song & the music itself becomes a metaphor for the co-existence of different forms of life”

—Meg Bateman introduces Ben Dorain: a conversation with a mountain, by Garry MacKenzie, (Irish Pages Press/Cló An Mhíl Bhuí, 2021)

2/4

https://irishpages.org/in-praise-of-ben-dorain/?v=7885444af42e

#Scottish #literature #poetry #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #18thcentury #ecology #environment #ecopoetry

Lidl have just retarmacked my local stores car park. I decided to honour this, with a wink to Joni Mitchell and a nudge to Phillip Larkin. I wrote a poem for my son.
'See the rain glisten and pool on mans petroleum product.
It lies like a black flag to our progress stretched flat across the earth.
See the remarked white line, disciplined and straight
controling unruly nature'.
#photography #badpoetry #panorama #SundayFunday #SundayVibes #sunday
#ecopoetry #shotonAphone

Lidl have just retarmacked my local stores car park. I decided to honour this, with a wink to Joni Mitchell and a nudge to Phillip Larkin. I wrote a poem for my son.
'See the rain glisten and pool on mans petroleum product.
It lies like a black flag to our progress stretched flat across the earth.
See the remarked white line, disciplined and straight
controling unruly nature'.
#photography #badpoetry #panorama #SundayFunday #SundayVibes #sunday
#ecopoetry #shotonAphone

Lidl have just retarmacked my local stores car park. I decided to honour this, with a wink to Joni Mitchell and a nudge to Phillip Larkin. I wrote a poem for my son.
'See the rain glisten and pool on mans petroleum product.
It lies like a black flag to our progress stretched flat across the earth.
See the remarked white line, disciplined and straight
controling unruly nature'.
#photography #badpoetry #panorama #SundayFunday #SundayVibes #sunday
#ecopoetry #shotonAphone

Global Burns 2025: Burns & the Environment
28 January, online – free

Join Glasgow University’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies to explore Robert Burns’s engagement with the environment, as both writer & farmer. How did it influence his poetry? And how might we understand Burns in the context of contemporary environmental concerns?

@litstudies

https://app.forumm.to/event/e4af5751-be4f-4a28-a17c-4e6fe64adf25

#Scottish #literature #poetry #RobertBurns #18thcentury #environment #environmentalism #ecopoetry

Global Burns 2025: Burns & the Environment
28 January, online – free

Join Glasgow University’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies to explore Robert Burns’s engagement with the environment, as both writer & farmer. How did it influence his poetry? And how might we understand Burns in the context of contemporary environmental concerns?

@litstudies

https://app.forumm.to/event/e4af5751-be4f-4a28-a17c-4e6fe64adf25

#Scottish #literature #poetry #RobertBurns #18thcentury #environment #environmentalism #ecopoetry

Global Burns 2025: Burns & the Environment
28 January, online – free

Join Glasgow University’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies to explore Robert Burns’s engagement with the environment, as both writer & farmer. How did it influence his poetry? And how might we understand Burns in the context of contemporary environmental concerns?

@litstudies

https://app.forumm.to/event/e4af5751-be4f-4a28-a17c-4e6fe64adf25

#Scottish #literature #poetry #RobertBurns #18thcentury #environment #environmentalism #ecopoetry

Global Burns 2025: Burns & the Environment
28 January, online – free

Join Glasgow University’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies to explore Robert Burns’s engagement with the environment, as both writer & farmer. How did it influence his poetry? And how might we understand Burns in the context of contemporary environmental concerns?

@litstudies

https://app.forumm.to/event/e4af5751-be4f-4a28-a17c-4e6fe64adf25

#Scottish #literature #poetry #RobertBurns #18thcentury #environment #environmentalism #ecopoetry

"Here, in the forest, the last remaining, each branch is a school, a nursery, and a requiem, and each still reaches for the sun."

The Wardens of the Dead, first pub. @BanyanReview 2022.

https://linktr.ee/OBreen

#poetry #writingcommunity #art #writing #books #ecopoetry

"Here, in the forest, the last remaining, each branch is a school, a nursery, and a requiem, and each still reaches for the sun."

The Wardens of the Dead, first pub. @BanyanReview 2022.

https://linktr.ee/OBreen

#poetry #writingcommunity #art #writing #books #ecopoetry

"Here, in the forest, the last remaining, each branch is a school, a nursery, and a requiem, and each still reaches for the sun."

The Wardens of the Dead, first pub. @BanyanReview 2022.

https://linktr.ee/OBreen

#poetry #writingcommunity #art #writing #books #ecopoetry

"Here, in the forest, the last remaining, each branch is a school, a nursery, and a requiem, and each still reaches for the sun."

The Wardens of the Dead, first pub. @BanyanReview 2022.

https://linktr.ee/OBreen

#poetry #writingcommunity #art #writing #books #ecopoetry

With the first days of August comes July's installment of 'Polylith', tumbling in the slipstream.

This month we take a walk in the charged space between computer model and phenomenal experience.

https://cscottmills.com/polylith/065/

#towardThePolylith #phenomenology #poetry #walking #ecopoetry #GIS

With the first days of August comes July's installment of 'Polylith', tumbling in the slipstream.

This month we take a walk in the charged space between computer model and phenomenal experience.

https://cscottmills.com/polylith/065/

#towardThePolylith #phenomenology #poetry #walking #ecopoetry #GIS

With the first days of August comes July's installment of 'Polylith', tumbling in the slipstream.

This month we take a walk in the charged space between computer model and phenomenal experience.

https://cscottmills.com/polylith/065/

#towardThePolylith #phenomenology #poetry #walking #ecopoetry #GIS

The books have arrived! It is a beautiful thing to finally hold in my hands.

If you'd like a copy, ask you local bookshop or library to order it! Also available online:
https://poetsonearth.com/#gestures

#poetry #books #natureWriting #ecopoetry #mythology #alchemy #winterSolstice

The books have arrived! It is a beautiful thing to finally hold in my hands.

If you'd like a copy, ask you local bookshop or library to order it! Also available online:
https://poetsonearth.com/#gestures

#poetry #books #natureWriting #ecopoetry #mythology #alchemy #winterSolstice

The books have arrived! It is a beautiful thing to finally hold in my hands.

If you'd like a copy, ask you local bookshop or library to order it! Also available online:
https://poetsonearth.com/#gestures

#poetry #books #natureWriting #ecopoetry #mythology #alchemy #winterSolstice

The books have arrived! It is a beautiful thing to finally hold in my hands.

If you'd like a copy, ask you local bookshop or library to order it! Also available online:
https://poetsonearth.com/#gestures

#poetry #books #natureWriting #ecopoetry #mythology #alchemy #winterSolstice

My book is out!

'Drift Gestures' is a collection of forty-two poems exploring cycles of erosion and deposition, celestial correspondences, alchemical workings, etc. Published by The Lune, Fort Collins, Colorado.

You can purchase a copy here:
https://poetsonearth.com/#gestures

(Boosts welcome!)

#poetry #ecopoetry

My book is out!

'Drift Gestures' is a collection of forty-two poems exploring cycles of erosion and deposition, celestial correspondences, alchemical workings, etc. Published by The Lune, Fort Collins, Colorado.

You can purchase a copy here:
https://poetsonearth.com/#gestures

(Boosts welcome!)

#poetry #ecopoetry

My book is out!

'Drift Gestures' is a collection of forty-two poems exploring cycles of erosion and deposition, celestial correspondences, alchemical workings, etc. Published by The Lune, Fort Collins, Colorado.

You can purchase a copy here:
https://poetsonearth.com/#gestures

(Boosts welcome!)

#poetry #ecopoetry