✨cut. land ✨
Money tore down trees/ Filter for grieving air, lost/ Cut and paste houses
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✨Lights ✨
Trees meet by the stream/ to hear songs of almost-spring/ Birds steal sparks of sun/ Embers fill hollow hearts/ Love lights our new world in green
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Nature’s Gentle Rhythm: Finding Wonder at the Water’s Edge The lake is a place of endless discovery, where ducks waddle in parade and the moon paints a silver path for our dreams. Through these gentle poems, young readers are invited to swish with the fish an...

New blog: Nature’s Gentle Rhythm — short poems that invite kids to explore the lake, the bees, and moonlit paths. A tiny read with big imagination. wix.to/xcpQWoW #kidslit #poetry #DownByTheLake #NaturePoems #KidsBooks #EarlyLiteracy #BrightFieldPress #ExploreNature

A lovely review of my latest poetry collection A Fragile Map & Other Poems today is cheering me up as I recover from illness. 🥰

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Up in the Mountains Up in the Mountains is a lyrical adventure into the heart of nature, crafted especially for young readers. Through 25 whimsical poems, children are invited to explore the wonders of mountain life—from...

📣 Excited to share a new project in my portfolio: Up in the Mountains
🏞️ You can check it out on my site wix.to/tRq60B3
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Had a lovely time this afternoon reading my poem 'Discordancy' for @thewingedmoon.bsky.social & their #Biophilia Substack launch. Many thanks to Jai Michelle Louissen & Saraswati Nagbal for hosting & creating such a welcoming, mellow atmosphere. 🙏🏻
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Here is the next Monday excerpt from my book.
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Here is the next Monday excerpt from my book.
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✨ Freshly brewed coffee/ Steam curls around cold fingers/ Ref leaf wind stops time ✨
Autumn 🍂 is the pause, the breath, the last sip from a warm mug before winter descends
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Winter Knives Cold can kill, can do violence without a touch...

Cold can kill, can do violence without a touch…

Today's poem is "Winter Knives" tinyurl.com/3w8u4ukt

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The Hollow Ways By Dawn McLachlan We shall walk together in the hollow ways On days when colour is blurred by morning rain And worries will be lifted to drift away Through sunken lanes in sun-dappled rays We'll travel slowed down along ancient veins We shall walk together in the hollow ways As high above the great green canopy sways We'll dawdle then until the afternoon wanes And worries will be lifted to drift away In susurrations come whispers of forgotten days Hearing echoes of the distant past and the arcane We shall walk together in the hollow ways In an ancient place, away from sun's blaze We find our own place in a wild domain And worries will be lifted to drift away As the real world feels like a distant haze Take my hand, and walk with me here again We shall walk together in the hollow ways And worries will be lifted to drift away © Dawn McLachlan 2025

I absolutely love hollow ways and in the summer I wrote this villanelle about them.
Hope you like it.

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A graveyard of roots. Stitched together by time and age.
Like puckered skin sewn with the quiver of an aging hand…
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I am humbled that my words get to dance in your world and to be interpreted by you in ways that whisper an invitation to pause and connect either with yourself or someone else. #poetrysociety #poetry #authors #naturepoems

Winter gifts? Winter gifts? books for long, dark nights Waiting for the quiet feathers, That drift through the trees, That smother the world into silenc...

Waiting for the snow? or planning some seasonal gifts? or mellow music for an evening by the fire? Winter treats from Creeping Toad! #naturepoems, #folklore, #ravens, #BabaYaga creepingtoad.blogspot.com/2025/10/wint...

✨ The smallest beings/ are gathering, preparing/ to fight tyranny ✨
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Some #haiku, #limerick, #acrostic, and other #NaturePoems from September 2025 above. I managed to keep up better than I usually do with one-thing-per-day challenges, so I'm proud of that.

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Ophelia By Dawn McLachlan What were her last thoughts On willow breaking And the cold embrace of water Was the rue still clutched In the barest of fingers In her decline did she grasp the branch Or just welcome the fall And watch the black birds spin In pinked air above their roost Holding back from the last landing of the day. Caught in their great maelstrom of avian conversation Did she watch the trees, their crowns shy Tapping tips lightly in the breeze Like stilted lovers Branches dutifully stitched by nuthatch needle beak Jewelled with the flash of princely goldcrest crown Threaded with wren song that ached the heart Forest gossamer webbed with evening mist Silvering the boughs with fragile chains And the ghosts of remembrance hanging As fresh as cut herbs

Time for another #FridayPoem

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Serotinal By Dawn McLachlan Exhausted by summer we cross the lawns Crisp, the grass beneath our feet And tanned our hands against the spade As turned earth reveals a hidden dark heart Of soft dawn-fallen rain Morning mists cling to the river now Water rolling low and slow in summer’s wake Pulling the skirts of autumn ever closer With the first blush of leaf red hinting At season change in subtle hues By day the air hums with work of the fields And uncounted bales stud golden hills While clouds of gulls rise behind the plough Under skies that ache the soul with their enormity Cresting the rise of the land The long dark creeps ever closer On blackberry tanged crosswinds Mingled with sharpness of bonfire potential But the memory of summer lingers on Through nights as cool as mischief

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Mother rock remains/ a scaffold, shaping water/ wearing lines and time
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The highway finds me broken/ and broken free from the mountain’s grip/ Distance restarts my heart/ each mile is another beat/ At the edge of the ocean/ my breath and my dreams/ return to me
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