The Waxing Moon
Blog URL http://thewaxingmoon.blogspot.com
Located Whitehorse, Yukon Canada
Tags poetry, photos, environment, nature, north, Yukon, animals, mothering, wordplay
Poetry, photos, and environmental and political commentary from Whitehorse, Yukon.
Latest Blog Posts
- Tantalizing haiku on Nov 20, 2009 in haiku poem night sky seasons moon
Glory of the night!New moon hides in winter’s shroudFrigid, lacy scalesHow can I resist the temptation of 3 little lines, a mere 17 syllables? We're all on the mend; the flu is nothing against my precious stockpile of medicinal herbs and potions. B...
- Healing haiku on Nov 16, 2009 in healing haiku poem
When cough, fever, chillswrack your body, wrap it warmelder flower tea(The kids and I are all home sick with the flu this week. What a great opportunity to dig through my herbal medicine chest, stoke up the woodstove, and cuddle up warm.)...
- Forgotten angels on Nov 12, 2009 in dreaming prose poetry growing up poem
The truth swings round. The memorytoo old for this, too old for this nowa bridge, broken loose swinging, a slow arcthrough river’s mischievous currentswim, swim, flutter kick homeswings round. The arc a small child running,a curve, giggles full of...
- Your bed is full of dragons on Nov 6, 2009 in poem magic poems for children
Your bed is full of dragons, their tailswrapped surreptitiously through clefts and hollows, softand abandoned with the breath of your sleep still clinginglike dew to a cottony nest. Your bedis strewn with nightingales, each oneholding a grand story t...
- shallow roots on Nov 1, 2009 in growing up Yukon mothering poem
Something has gone terribly wrong in the native culture education programming in our elementary schools. My daughter told me last night that she can't be native, because she doesn't eat moose. We talked about it again in the morning, and she said a m...
- Curandera on Oct 28, 2009 in healing poem magic
I would take your pain,hold it like an egg untilit warms in my hands,turning it overevery few hoursuntil it hatches. A softyellow chick would tapthrough, and with my thumbsI’d gently widen the rentin the shell to setthis new life free. Free,I would...
- Award time! on Oct 26, 2009 in share the wealth treats and treasures
Thanks, Joseph, for gifting me with a Creative Blogger Award. (If you haven’t checked out Joseph’s blog yet, please do! It’s well worth the visit.)The Creative Blogger award comes with two requirements: I’m supposed to pass it on to 7 people,...
