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Nature Poems

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Ah Nature, ever the poet’s go-to when blocked. Here are some of my attempts to catelogue each red tooth and fearful symmetry.

Contents

Birds

Cats

The Countryside

Dinosaurs & Reptiles (& Fossils)

Evolution

Fishes & Other Sealife

Human Biology

Insects

Mammals

Microbes

Other Inverebrates

Plants

Spiders

Weather & The Seasons

Poems about Birds

Aves Unblazoned

Bill-Knobs & Eyeliner

Bob-Bob-Bobbing

Carol of the Robins

Carol of the Winterbirds

Counting Magpies

An Estate of Builder-Birds

The First of May

A Halcyon Vision

How the Curlew got its Curl

Look to your Lesser Linen

A Malady of Arms

My Toe Bleeds, Betty

Never Three on a Card

Plenty to Crow About

Red in Breast & Claw

Red-Herring Gulls

Sing a Song of Sixty

Stirred-Up Eagles

Summer Begins at Midsummer

There Shall the Falcons also be Gathered, Each One with her Mate

These are the Beasts upon the Earth

Urban Selection

Poems about Cats

Barons of the Jungle

A Cat in Hell’s Chance

Cats in Progress

Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office

Damnatio ad Bestias

Felis schroedingi

Longhold Tenancy

The Magnolia Jungle

The Mousecatchers’ Ball

The Prayer in the Purr

Poems about the Countryside

Bob-Bob-Bobbing

Carol of the Winterbirds

Endless Rolling Fields

Everything from Shells

The Fork in the Road

From Mighty Acorns

Fruits of the Verge

A Glut of Collectives Nouns

Groves & Thickets

Harvest Traffic

The Horticultrix

Jethro’s Toll

Musings on the Nature of Hadrian’s Wall

Pastoral Symphony

Tillers of the Ground

Wet Rain & Dry Rain

Poems about Dinosaurs & Reptiles (& Fossils)

Adders & Ladders

Ammonites & Moabites

Book-Nosed Lukas

Counting Forwards

Dürer’s-Rhino Syndrome

Everything from Shells

Exit the Dragon

Naming the Serpents

The Pillars of the Earth

Sleeping with the Armoured Fishes

Thumbs Are Fingers Too

Poems about Evolution

All Life Is Here

Alteration of the Generations

And Saw That It Was Good

The Blacktop Jungle

Cats in Progress

Counting Forwards

Do Kings Play Chess On Fine Green Silk ?

Evolution Chant

The Green & The Red

Larviform Females

Life in the Colonies

Linnaean quanta

There is no Plan A

Thumbs Are Fingers Too

Why are Trees Trees ?

Poems about Fishes & Other Sealife

Ammonites & Moabites

Beside the Seaside

Fishes & Physics

Life in the Colonies

Massacre On-Mass

Sonnet of the Portuguese

Poems about Human Biology

A-wub-duh-dree-furr

Alteration of the Generations

Brackish Streams

Brain of Thought

Contract of Contact

Corporate Transport Body

Cranial Strainial

Double-Dip Sleep

Every Winner gets a Free Shave

Glabrous Glands

God Bless You !

The Golden Future

Hold Your Breath & Count To Ten

Human Nature of the Beast

I Leave It Up To You

If you can hear this, you are dying…

In the Arms of Morphea

Intwinned & Intwined

Iris to Iris, Pupil to Pupil

The Long, Long Chord

My Second-Best Beds

Nightly Variety Show

No Laughing Matter

Ophelia’s Pharmacy

Perish by the Sword

A Poet to His Surgeon

The Rhythm of Life

Rockabye Lullabye

Sleep of the Blessèd

Starve the Addiction

“Tell me more of this Earth thing called kissing”

Thy Name is Edom

A Troubled Brow

Twins I Have Known

The Valentine Virus

Watching You Idle

Poems about Insects

The Ant-Days of Summer

The Big Butterfly Count

Butterfly Bushwacked

Butyrumusca Getii

The First of May

The Hand Not Bitten

Hyper-Parasites

Industrious Insects

An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles

Larviform Females

Limb-Slungs & Beam-Shanks

The Lord God Made Them All

Lousy with Names

Monomorphic Adolescence

One Spot, Two Spot

The Pessimist’s Camera

Song of the Straight-Wings

Telling the Bees

The Vegetable Plot

Poems about Mammals (bar Humans & Cats)

Balaam’s Asses

Bottom of the Barrel

Canis Lupus Canis

Carapace Steeplechase

The Elephants of War

Infestations & Negotiations

Mus laboritorium

Pastoral Symphony

Rhinos in Name Only

Roadside Rodent

Sheep Mayn’t Safely Graze

Where the Hounds Lie Low

Poems about Microbes

The Blacktop Jungle

Everything from Shells

Four Thousand Million Years in the Making

Everything from Shells

Lost Couplets from The Auguries of Innocence

The Valentine Virus

Z. apocalypsus

Poems about Other Invertebrates

Ammonites & Moabites

Breakfast in the Ruins

Hyper-Parasites

A Landrace of Snails

Life in the Colonies

Lousy with Names

Nothing with a Face

The Pillars of the Earth

The Queen of the Cockles

See, Elegance !

Sonnet for the Portuguese

Poems about Plants

Alteration of the Generations

Butterfly Bushwhacked

Cactus Practice

Catkins & Conkers

The Cherry, Then

The Dandelion International

An English Country Garden

Euphoric Euphorbia

The First of May

Garden Overspills

The Green Tree Anthem

Hallmark Horticulture

The Hand Not Bitten

The Horticultrix

Know your Onions

Lightweight Bulbs

Lilies of the Shallows

The Memory of Woods

Missing Those Kissing Toes

Nicholmas Daisies

A Norse Discourse

Nothofagus antactica

One Plant’s Meat is Another Man’s Garden

Ophelia’s Pharmacy

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

Hyper-Parasites

Pioneer Species

The Practical Gardener

Rhubarb Mutterings

The Root of All Evil

Schrödinger’s Cactus

The Sisters McBloom

A Small Tragedy

Spring-Bringers

Suburban Spruces

Summer Begins at Midsummer

The Thick in the Air

The Tolpuddle Tree

Transatlantic Cable 9 – Gutta-Percha

The Travelcard Shuffle

Trees in Threes

Wearing White for Eastertide

What are you, then ?

Why are Trees Trees ?

The Witherness of the Fig-Tree

Poems about Spiders

I Spied a Spider

Limb-Slungs & Beam-Shanks

Spiders, Incidentally

Spiders, Plural

Poems about the Weather & the Seasons

The Ant-Days of Summer

Day of the Dead

Daylight Austerity

An Estate of Builder-Birds

The First Bounce of Spring

The First Chill of Autumn

The First Day of Autumn

The Horticultrix

Hot Air & Cold Fronts

How the Curlew got its Curl

Lift Thou Up Thy Rod

The Longest Day of the Year

The Lull in the Air

Midnight Flurry

Month of Fertility

My Leaping Friend

The Name of the Wind

New Year’s Day

Nicholmas Daisies

Revolution of the Seasons

Season’s Fleetings

Snowfall in London

Sparkle in the Rain

Spring-Bringers

Springtide Worship

Summer Begins at Midsummer

’Tain’t the Season

The Thick in the Air

Three Songs for May

Twenty-Eight Alone

Warm-Water Waves

Wearing White for Eastertide

Wet Rain & Dry Rain

The Witching Hour

A Year without a Summer

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Links

Pitshanger Poets – a weekly poetry group in Ealing. Fellow attendees Caroline Am Bergris and Rithika Nadipalli have her own sites.

Lighten Up Online & Snakeskin – two online poetry sites that smile on rhyming and have been good enough to feature some of my poems.

Bio

Toastingfork is a reclusive poet favouring anonymity in out-of-date utensils, seeking the shadows while stoking the flames, and tarnishing our daily bread while loading us up with carbs. Feel free to contact him on his too-long-for-a-single-line email at toastingfork@rhymingcouplets.com

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