Praising Nature: A Collection of Poems

By Marleen Rita Duckhorn

Mother Nature is always there to rely on. We can all evolve joining hands with Her. We have to choose if we are adding to, dividing or subtracting from, or multiplying Her into our lives. To do this we need to be aware, praise, accept and love. If someone divides or subtracts themself from Her intimate, ultimate nature; that is what makes them react to not go entirely with the flow of her innate wisdom. These poems were written to remind and encourage others to be grateful, thankful, and praiseful of Mother Nature's gifts of inspiration. I found fun in the writing of this collection of poems and gained deep introspection captured in my attempt to lend personality to Her wonders.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 10, 2023
• ISBN: 9798369403389

Marleen Rita Duckhorn

Marleen Rita Duckhorn is sixty-seven and lives in Southern California.

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Contents

Beautiful Lattice

The Sun And Moon Poem

The Mortality Of Nature

The Trees Trunk

Nature’s Pact

The Color Of Leaves

The Miracle Of A Rose

The Ancients On Plants

Tomatoes

Then There Was Snow

Becoming A Potato

Space Hogs

A Sizable Sea

Eggplant

Mustard Seed

Sunflower

Prancing Pigeons

Do We Regret Not Being A Plant

Reincarnation Of Carnations

Natural Silence

When Nature Knows You Know

Nature Saved Us

When Eden’s Fruit Was Picked

The Canyon

The Pepper Tree

Passport To A Cold Day

The Hollow Tree

Imperial Bee

What If The Sun Explodes

Do Plants Sleep

The Immortal Plant

A Dead Plant

Not To Be Tortured By Nature

Catching Up With All Of Nature

Nature’s Robbery

Please Put My Plant On Hold

Tag Along Sky

Praising Nature

Owning Your Words About Nature

Subtleties Of Nature

Into Nature’s Hand

For The Love Of Nature

Nature’s Victory

Nature And God

Nature’s Authority

Nature’s Wits’ End

Mother Nature’s Intuition

Utter Unto Nature

A Walk In The Fog

Nature Can Be Unorthodox

The Lock Of Nature

Victory Of A Natural Saint

Believe In Nature

Eclipsed By Nature

Nature Abides In True Love

The Marked Event Of Love

In Nature’s Reach Of A Wedding

Nature’s Honeymoon

Raising Nature’s Family

The Best Of Nature

Allow The Flow Of Nature

Nature’s Answer

Ammunition Of Nature

Fortress Of Nature

Nature’s Ambulance

Nature’s Net

In Slight Of Nature

Backwoods Of Nature

The Writ Of Nature

Sioux City Naturally

When Nature Becomes Angry

When Nature Is In Danger

Nature’s Third Strike

North Winds Of Nature

Nature’s Influence

Playful Nature

Nature And Her Sun

Riding Nature’s Train

Mirth Of Nature

Nature’s Bible

Attack On Nature

Nature’s Halloween Mask

Nature In April

Could A Poet Be Like Nature

On The Shoreline Of Nature

Boughs Of Nature

Love Of Leaf

When You Can Tour Nature

Finding Nature’s Voice

Nature’s Barnacles

Nature’s Catch

Admists The Travel Of Nature

Nature As A Tough Cookie

Interwoven Nightmare Of Nature

Trifling With Nature

Whitling Nature Into A Shape

In The Brisk Light Of Nature

The Snowball Effect Of Nature

The Reign Of Nature

Cannon Balled By Nature Love

Back Track To Nature

The Raising Of Nature

In The Brisk Light Of Nature

Softly As Nature

When Nature Is In A Quandary

In The Swampland Of Nature

Nature’s Loving Spout

When Nature Stands To Reason

What Does Mother Nature Hear

Love Is Helped By Nature

When Nature Bares Her Lightning

When Nature’s On The Brink

Blessed Nature

Righteous Nature

Freewheeling Nature

Dog Ear Of Nature

Setting A Table For Nature

Nature’s Drama

Nature’s Christening

The Umbilical Cord Of Nature

The Drifters Of Nature

Leaves Of Nature

Nature’s Prosperity

Natural Life Is A Prison

For The Love Of Nature

When Nature Reprimands

One Minute With Nature

Before You Become Nature

Nature’s Prayer To Her Loving Man

Nature Is Not Pigeonholed

How Can Nature Answer Our Prayers

Passage Into Nature

Mother Nature’s Vice

The Digging Of Nature

Conifer Nature

Time’s Constructed Nature

Lean On The Nature Of Time

In The Sage Of Nature

If All The Chances Of Nature Are Used Up

Poisoned By Nature

Bruised By Nature

In The Twilight Zone Of Nature

Inside The Trap Of Nature

I’d Listen To Mother Nature If I Were You

Nature’s Lamp Light

Nature’s Apprentice

The Fame Of Nature

There Is A Trick Or Treat To Nature

Capricious Nature

Legitimate Nature

Open Ended Nature

What Is Nature’s Motivation

When You Spell Out Mother Nature

Travels Of Nature

The Infinity Of Nature

Organized Nature

Nature’s Shortest Poem

Christened Nature

Diluted Nature

Theater Of Nature

Behold The Land Of Nature

Nature’s Flux Of Seasons

Is Nature Wiser Than She Used To Be

We Are Similar To Nature

Stagnation Of Nature

What Does Nature Like Best

How Many Setting Suns Will There Be

Desires Of Nature

Indirect Contact With Mother Nature

Hummingbird Are Nature’s Pulse

Perplexed By Nature

Justify Nature

Cruelest Nature

Association To Nature

Lighten Up By Natural Lightning

Do What Nature’s Suns See

Nature Waited For Her Turn

The Encouraging Word Of Nature

Ransacked Nature

What Nature Does In Church

Why Did Mother Nature Give Animals Their Stripes

Nature’s Poem Are Stored In Space

The Rite Of Nature

Drawn Into The Pastures Of Nature

Belief In The Green Of Nature

The Rights Of Nature

What Does Nature Taste

What Does Nature Think Of Human Love

Smiles Of Nature

In The Immediate Feeling Of Nature

Intercepting Mother Nature

Getting To The Crux Of Nature’s Truth

The Poem Interested In The Courtship Of Nature

Death Is Part Of Nature

The Echo Of Nature

Brass Tacks Of Nature

In The Golden Burrow Of Nature

Revealing Mother Nature

Mother Nature’s Garden Of Eden Story

The Talk Of The Town Of Mother Nature

The Speaking Tree Of Nature

When The Pine Trees Cries

Nature’s Reverence

Reasoning Nature

When Nature Sends Us Something To Love

The Jolly Sun

Exclusive Pinecones Of Nature

In The Science Of Nature

Because Nature Loves Us

Nature’s Spooky In Laws

If We Abandonned Hope In Nature

Just A Simpleton, Mother Nature

Gophers Of Nature

Turn The Heck Onto Nature

Leaf It To A Leaf

In The Grit Of Nature

Is Nature Both Good And Bad

Nature Is A Triathlete

Nature And Innocence

Strictly Nature

In The Heart Of Mother Nature

Struck By Nature’s Lighnting

Time For Nature

The Joking Nature

The Kneeling Nature

Nature’s Bequest

Nature As A Beacon

Is Nature Upended By Harvest

When Nature Dances

The Look Of The Sphinx Is Nature

Nature’s Rain

For Nature’s Archangel

In The Safe Setting Of Nature

Who Does Nature Turn To

Violated Nature

My Heart Confided In Nature

Who Is The Child Of Nature

The Inquisitive Side Of Nature

Nature On Relationships

Nature’s Nirvana

Nature Is A Classic

What Does Nature Eat

Dark Of Nature

Message Of The Madness

Nature’s Gendarmes

Popular Take On Nature

Nature Wants Someone

Apparatus Of Nature

The Love Brought On By Nature

In The Tumult Of Nature

Wise Owl Of Nature

Wisdom Of Nature’s Ox

Delicate Nature

On The Springboard Of Nature

Nature’s Advice

In The Line Of Nature’s Fire

Nature Stops To Pose For A Poem

Is Nature A Mystic

Nature’s Dreams That Never Were

Do We See Where Nature Is Going

When Nature’s Tired

Rapture Within The City’s Nature

Reasonable Nature

With Nature, I Will Love

Caressable Nature

When Nature’s Stuck In A Trap

Pure Nature

Outlawed Nature

Nature Is A Futurist

Happy Nature

Nature’s Holiness

Whisper To A Bee

Believe In The Winds Of Nature

Another Day Has Chosen My Love

Nature Makes Something Out Of Nothing

When One Finds Mother Nature’s Flower

Here Lies A Hallow Heart

Nature’s Direction

The Edge Of Nature

Other books published by Marleen Rita Duckhorn published by Xlibris since the years 2007 include :

Red Daughters in a foreign spotlight

Soul Beams

Zoom Lens

Double Decked Nature

Gravel Pit on the Moon

Rocks on the Road

Poems of Gratitude

Written Rhythms of Space Travel and Earthly Things

Say Yes to Time

Flapping Soul, Words in Verse

Explorations of a Versemaster

Memorables Sayings of Poetry

Twelve Plus One

Dedication

This book is dedicated to Chuck Ross

Acknowledgements

I would like to give thanks to the following people for their kind encouragement: Russ Proctor, Tiana Miller, Denice Turner, Ruben Santa Cruz, Jude Cortes, and special thanks to Florence Laberge-Chalifoux for her outstanding technical support.

Beautiful Lattice

B eautiful lattice covered in vines

Is a wonder to behold

The strength of wood holds weaker vines

To behave as they should.

These plants of common variety

White clouds can view form the sky

As though a new ruling principle

Tapped upon my once ruling eye.

Subsequent to follow

I drift off to those clouds

I wouldn’t want to rule nature

That is for the heavens to shout aloud.

I’m content to really look

And pierce right to the core

Of lattice vines and clouds I write

To grow and float here evermore.

The Sun And Moon Poem

T he Sun sits cocky with a lofty wand

A red sky jockey with a hot suit on

Earns his living by shedding his degrees

His boiling moods get me down on my knees.

He shows up on time to heat up everyday

The Sun makes no excuses, he’s assigned to stay

He shoots out his hot flames a thousand miles high

Glad we’re a safe distance or we’d say, Goodbye!

The one interruption is the fainting Moon who sings

An overture and masterpiece but not so welcoming

The Sun and Moon compete in a very cosmic way

To shift the scenery from glow of night to day.

The Moon trips the setting Sun over horizon’s line

They’re reluctant to perfect this repeat of summit’s high

And should something otherworldly try to take their spot

They’d be the first to moan and groan, they just may not be so hot!

The Mortality Of Nature

I t’s sad to say, plants live and die

Fair to crumble, is a sad leaf’s life

The mulch becomes the tombstone’s fame

Leaves live and die by such a name.

The captive ground calls the blanket’s woe

Sturdier or otherwise, the one made out of snow

This reassembling pattern also attends the garden

The one thing unheard of is nature granting pardon.

Plants seem to leave behind a revamping pause

As nature and her energy flexes her mighty claws

But the toast of mortality is never done in vain

The raffle to remember is the sweet, sweet sugarcane.

The Trees Trunk

T he tree’s trunk at ground level

Grows in a sloped line called a bevel

The craggy roots below the ground

Are all in search of more food around.

The food is moisture, water