The Natural World in Poetry

By Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen

The Natural World in Poetry is an assortment of nature poems that includes preservation issues, humor, fantasy, love, spirituality, and much more. Whether you enjoy escaping through fantasy or taking issue with plant and animal conservation, there is something enjoyable for you in The Natural World in Poetry.
Take your imagination on a delightful journey to fantasy. Enjoy the award-winning poem Running with the Wild, about a young womans nostalgic fulfillment as she rides bareback on a wild Appaloosa stallion. Or imagine the dreamy love found in The Field Where Wheat Grew Gold.
Nature lovers, children, parents, conservationists, creationists, and scientists alike will enjoy stretching their imaginations by reading the many lighthearted and thought-provoking poems found in The Natural World in Poetry.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Mar 4, 2013
• ISBN: 9781466981508

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The Natural World

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DANE ANN SMITH-JOHNSEN

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DEDICATION

The Natural World in Poetry is dedicated to my children, who became expert campers at an early age during many of their childhood summers. Memories of those happy days exploring with them are interwoven in my heart and throughout my poetry. And to my husband and partner in life, who read every poem that I have written more than once and who steadfastly encouraged me with loving support.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to thank Love Blake of Trafford Publishing Company for her persistence in encouraging me to overcome my fears of self-publishing, which has made this book a reality.

I would also like to thank Earl Thomas and Evan Villadores, and the rest of the production team including the cover design team for working closely with me in making this book more beautiful than I had imagined.

THE NATURAL WORLD IN POETRY

A LISTING OF POEMS:

A Soul Like You, Butterfly

A Spider’s Patience

A Spot of Heaven

Abiding Beauty

Amber Morning

Ancient Waterfall; Modern Man

Ancient Waters

As Dusk Drew Near…

Asserting Dominion

Banyan Trees

Barren Tree

Beyond the Window

Biodiversity

Birds Heard

Black-Eyed—Susan

Blue Spruce

Busy-bee

Cadmium-orange

Call of the Wild

Category 5

Caterpillar Gifts

Chicks

Colors and Perception

Cradle of Beauty

Creeping Charlie

Crickets Rubbing Legs

Crooning Midnight

Crying Chrysanthemum

Cucumber Information

DNA Became

Dappled Apple

Daybreak

Daylight

Dear Ghost in the Woods

Dewdrops Touching the Morning

Dilapidated

Dinner is Served

Earth Recycling

Entwined

Fire Demons

Fiery Skies

Florida Apple Snail

Fresh Feast

Furious Clouds

Gaiting Fawns

Gallivanting in the Forest

Gator and the Coot

Gator Bait

Gator Territory

Gazing Stars Shimmering

Ghost in the Woods

Glacial

Glittery Swallowtail

God and Black Rocks

God and Mother Nature

God Encoded Life

God: Good Gifts Ransacked

God, Nature, and Me

Good Morning, Earth

Great Tree Climber

Green Prince

Green Tree Frog

Gunshot Saguaro

Haiti: Beneath the Sun

Hoot! Hoot! She’s Afraid of the Dark

Holy Harvest

Hopeful Manatees

Hunter-Gatherers

If Only Trees Could Talk

Kansas Hill

Katrina

Leaves

Life of Vines

Life: Golden Strikes

Lightning, Not today. And I Live

Love Bugs

Mermaids

Mid-Ocean Ridge

Mingled Creation Flurries

More Honey?

Morning Mesmerizes

Morning Sounds

Morning Treasures

Mosquitoes Chased Us

Mother Earth Weakens

Mother Earth

Mother Nature is God’s Friend

Mother Oak

Mushrooms and Death

My Garden

Nature’s Frieze

Nature Primps

Nature’s Songs

Nature’s Night Sounds

Natures’ Nostalgia

Ode to the Prickly Pear

Oh, Lipstick Plant

Ominous Tobacco Plants

One Mother Earth

One Stallion!

One Cool Caterpillar

Paleontologist

Peach-blue Heavens

Perfectly Natural World

Plate Tectonics

Psychosis

Quiet Days Calm

Rain

Rainfall

…Raven

Rockin’ Rooster

Running With the Wild

Rustling at Dawn

Salt of the Earth!

Schaus Swallowtail

Science and The Truth

Snow on Obsidian

Soundless Reflections

Southern Autumn

Sparkling

Special Star

Spider Poem

Spirits Gazing into Heaven

Splendid Summer Sun

Spoonbill Spooning

Spring!

Spring Hocus Pocus

Spry Spring Thief

Sumacs and Citrus Breeze

Summertime ABC

Sun

Sunset

Sunshine Trickles

Suppressing

Tell Me Why…

The Daisy That Cried

The Dawn

The Dust of the Earth

The Empty Conch

The Feast in the Glen

The Field Where Wheat Grew Gold

The Florist

The Food Chain

The Grateful Gardener

The Greenhouse Effect

The Heart Stays

The Miracle: Genetics and the Future

The Morning Surprise

The Mountain Watched in Awe

The Night of the Snake

The Rabbit Hunt

The Silent Forest’s Nightly Wait

Solemn Subduing

The Tree and Life

Trees Caress

Tranquil Earth

Treetops at Dawn

Twilight and Ginger

Twin Deer

Twisted Trunks of Trees

Wandering Where Ospreys Fly

Weathered Faces

Wildlife