Natural Thoughts – Your Poems & Essays

Welcome to Natural Thoughts – a place for your poems and essays.

In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.  John Muir

A connection to nature is important for all of us.  Moments we share with family, friends, or to just be by ourselves.  To breathe in fresh air, watch the sky overhead, feel the breeze on our faces.  Hearing birds sing, smelling the flowers, and watching the tree branches sway in the wind.  Whether you are walking on a trail in the Appalachians, watching the waves crash on the Pacific coast, sitting at the edge of a mesa, watching the tall prairie grass ripple in the wind, or looking outside your office or house window – no matter where you are, you can pause.  Just take in and be part of what you are seeing.  For moments, an afternoon, an entire day.

Technology is a wonderful thing – my website would be nowhere without it.  But it is easy to be so engrossed with what is on a screen that we forget about the natural world.  For me, connections in the virtual world are insubstantial and fleeting.  My real connections are with earth, sky, and water.  Forests and wetlands.  Deserts and mountains.  Shores and plains.  The wildlife refuge that is my yard.  And in our world today, it is easy to get absorbed into influencers, celebrities, news, podcasts, and social media to the exclusion of so many other things.  Let’s all use this space to remind each other – and ourselves – that there is a world outside of our small screens.  A world of incredible beauty and adventure, where there are connections to everything, and where we can feel joy and awe.  A world in which human prejudice, anger, and insults simply have no place.

Please click on Submit Your Story to send your essays and poetry to me and I will post them.  Linda