Poetry About Nature

Nature poetry invites us to step outside the city’s concrete pulse and listen to the older rhythms of soil, tide, and wind. It explores our deep connection to the Earth and the lessons the landscape teaches about patience and transformation.

This gathering of verse traces the changing seasons and the quiet dignity of everything that grows, offering a sanctuary of green for those tethered to screens and clocks.

Featured Poems

Old Growth

The silent witness of ancient trees.

The cedars do not speak in words, but in the slow architecture of their reaching.
They have outlasted empires, standing tall in the cathedral of their own making.

- Lila Thorne

The Mountain's Breath

Finding the pulse of the earth in the high places.

The air is thin and cold and pure, a sharp wine for the tired chest.
Up here the ancient stones endure, and even the restless wind can rest knowing the world is safe and sure.

- Julian Thorne

Forest Cathedral

On the sacred quality of deep woodland silence.

The pines are pillars, green and tall, holding up the shifting sky.
We feel so infinitely small as the great, slow years go by, while the autumn leaves begin to fall.

- Lila Green

Classic Voices

The Tables Turned

by William Wordsworth (1798)

A call to leave behind books and seek wisdom directly from nature.

Up! up! my Friend, and quit your books; Or surely you'll grow double: Up! up! my Friend, and clear your looks; Why all this toil and trouble?
Books! 'tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.

Micro Verses

The forest breathes the only truth we ever needed.

- Unknown

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