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Supper of berries
Recorder of nature's wealth,
the whip-poor-will's song
Hope Rubin
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GROWING UP ON THOREAU FARM
Snow drifts to the barn
Pick up your shovel and boots
The milk must go out!
4H garden's in!
Strawberries, ripe, rosy red
Will I win, this year?
Brown, red and yellow
Flutter slowly to the ground
Must we rake them up?
Jumping in the hay!
Riding high atop the pile!
Cleaning out the stalls!
What a lucky boy!
Growing up on Thoreau Farm!
Life was hard - but fun!
Fred and Alice Wheeler
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WALDEN
Ancient green waters
Where night's oldest stars become
My gold reflection
Lauren Daley
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GREAT BLUE HERON
Early light rises
over river opening
his sun-fingered wings
Barbara Lydecker Crane
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Love is connecting
With God, family, and friends
Be a millionaire
Margaret M. Alves
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Of Henry David
The world knows little bits and
His name whispers peace
April Amodei
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JULY 12, 1817
Today I know light,
Soft sounds, warm breeze. Today no
Need to simplify.
Caroline Ellis
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He sauntered through woods
Sought the truth the earth revealed
Homage paid in words
Stephanie Eaton
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In Walden Pond wood
Like a pumpkin seed, peace grows
And thoughts become words
Robert L. Sampson
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THAW
Henry said to love
the white winter birch whispered
Ice melts to water.
GOODBYE
Love is forgiving
simplicity wins today
The wind fills all needs.
WALDEN
Yellow leaf carpet
a pond of tears and spring rain
walk for rebirth, now.
HOPE
Dawn breaks, deer crossing
Lincoln a memory fades,
hope arrives with dusk.
PACIFIST
Idealism
outweighs disillusionment
summer sky brings warmth.
Janet Knott
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Thoreau, Gandhi, and MLK.
What goes around comes around...
Plant a seed today!
Sirish Venkatagiri
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Blackbird in shadow
Yellowbird in marigolds
Thunder without sound
green to red to gold
bronze fading drying to dust
river underground
Apples in blossom
Bees travelling in and out
The snake's eyes lie deep
Rhea Sossen
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What a splendid lake:
The wondrousness of nature!
Mom, do my laundry.
Angelina Kendra
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Oh, desperation,
Life's work in nature's state.
Oh, simplicity!
Frank J. Furno
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I walk round Walden
Henry would hope we could find
our own simple pond
Henry Mannix Burke
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Breathless night, wet stars
mirrored, bearded bean grower
deep in reflection.
George Skelly
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THOREAU'S SONG
Go out in nature
Listen for your own song and
Follow the lyrics
SIMPLICITY
The wealthiest man
Lives simply, he has grasped
The essence of life
SINGING
Sing your own song and
Let it be heard everywhere
Throughout time and space
EAGLE
Be like the Eagle
Who lets her voice ring over the
Most powerful birds
SOLITUDE
Be like the Eagle
Who spreads her wings and flies
And finds solitude
Eily Cournoyer
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Famous for Walden,
Documented nature well
Abolitionist
Walden Pond was home
Lived in solitude with pen
And recorded all
Philosopher of nature
Born and raised in Concord, Mass
Taught school in Canton
Based on Henry T.,
The Thoreau Society
Books, and manuscripts
Communed with Nature
Did he return home each night?
Still we love his work
Loved the peaceful life
Didn't like to pay his taxes
Was once jailed for it
Prolific writer
Contradictions in his work?
You decide yourself
Jei Lee Freeman
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A leaf floats downstream…
Crisp golden hull of autumn
Bound for distant falls.
Deb Adams
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In the rain
Hurry away
Wild turkey
After rain
Much greener
All around
Sweetly
Shadow floats
Dogwood
Tomoko Hara
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Raptly pondering
Is the firm evolving breeze
Who stirs quiet leaves
Victoria Pinheiro
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leaf blowers yammer
pesticides hiss over lawns
wrens trill at Walden
Patricia Brodie
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WALDEN WATERS
Dawn plunge knifes each limb
shivering on sunsplotched rock
ripple shattered shore.
Yvonne D. Haitsman
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Thoreau at Walden
Far from polar ice caps
Own fateful retreat
M. Simon
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Softly step over
Spongy soil bluejay’s shrill call
Simply lives nature
Jeff Hoberman
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Stop, Listen shrill sound
Bluejay calls leaves rustly twig
Snap nature speaks
Jeff Hoberman
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Probe a silent place
Of lichen, logs and hummus
Where the sidewalk ends.
Sink deep in its peace.
The earth speaks to everyone,
Listen with your heart
Seek cleft and crevice,
Get chummy with the wild
Around the next turn.
Primitive seeds drift
free like flashing fireflies,
content and carefree.
The weight of a leaf
In the lap of the forest
Embraces rebirth.
The water-worn stone,
The solitary boulder,
Breathe hushed poetry.
On each spot of earth
The secret life of nature
Makes a patchwork quilt.
Toni Giarnese
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WILDNESS REFRESHES
In simplicity
Thoreau left a legacy
of wildness and peace
From ice-out to frost
Walden’s water calls us with
an earth-fresh fragrance
The white pond lilies
open to this holy day
in summer’s fullness
A crimson maple
bleeds into quiet waters
doubling the vision
Bare trees, stark beauty-
winter brings restful moments
of contemplation
Along Walden’s shores
each season’s stories unfold
reflections of peace
Barbara B. Feehrer
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R., I built a hut
on your land near Walden Pond.
It gives me joy. H.
Beans, wood chucks, the pond.
My life fills as it empties.
Restlessness settles.
I looked into my
Soul and found God. I have all
I can need for joy.
Susan Krohner
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Transcendental pals,
Pencil lectures, night in jail.
Life is in concord.
Frank J. Furno
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A TOLERABLE PLANET
Bare hands gently place
Compost ‘round roots from a friend
Three lives are enriched.
Jim Meehan
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Graceful, simple tree
Like Thoreau stands alone
Quiet solitude
Julia Lavely
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Ducks are on the pond
Henry signals for the curve
Dice-K wheels, deals, strike!
Leo Kulinski, Jr.
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Luscious green leaves
In swirl of wind do float,
As water moves to waves.
Gretchen Poehlman
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Mother earth protects
Young creatures born to witness
An eternal sky.
Gretchen Poehlman
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The man of Concord,
A great spark to Walden Woods
In spiritual quest.
Gretchen Poehlman
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Cabin, by a pond.
Water still as glass at dawn;
A blue heron waits.
Melanie Hamilton
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Dawn: spring green, pale rose,
Reflected on still water.
A fish jumps; ripples.
Melanie Hamilton
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God's soft music plays,
In these woods, in these waters,
Born, blessed, beautiful.
Steve Peck
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placing my own stone
onto the cabin-site's cairn--
whippoorwill calling
Michael Dylan Welch
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now with my grandson
sauntering by Walden Pond--
the first leaves of fall
Michael Dylan Welch
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again the story
on our walk through Walden Woods
of that arrowhead
Michael Dylan Welch
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Swimming with Henry
Ducklings swimming gracefully
Lovely Walden Pond
Andrew Neal McNulty
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Earth Wind Fire Book Tree
This is all that I desire
Just the time for these
Maureen Teresa McCarthy
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THOREAU
Nature all around,
at Walden but close to twon,
Thoreau loved Nature
Zoe Dettelbach
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people walk and talk
and my mind slowly empties
around Walden Pond
Madeleine Findlay
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Prison bars futile
against the placid waters
flowing through his veins
Jake Kline
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Peregrination
two miles from Concord his pond
still succors the soul
Jake Kline
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contemplating ants
red versus black battle
his struggle within
Dianne L. Brooks
it just says Henry
on the small granite marker
damp overcast day
Dianne L. Brooks
life at Walden Pond
alone with his pen and pad
water's reflection
Dianne L. Brooks
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Thank you to Henry
Because Walden Pond is great
with the trees still there
Julia McClellan
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But a path beyond,
Past scene of seasons' glory,
Quiet, frozen, pond.
Stephen Walden
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Nature’s faithful scribe
found the world in his backyard
and shared it with us
Maria Touet
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One man one cabin
Two mice beans pond fish birds songs
Three times earth heaven
Gail Renz
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Nature, fresh air, spring.
Sadly, thoughts Thoreauvian,
“Young man’s fancy,” flee.
Eliot Hallowell
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Upturned garden loam
ancient breathing of earth's musk.
I do not fear death.
Alexandrina Sergio
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Two Thoreau brothers. . .
many close shaves together
then one up and dies.
Like spring artichokes,
Henry's beard proliferates. . .
his heart so tender.
Jon Wolston
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Breath of autumn night!
A Snowy Tree Cricket’s song
stirs a simple life.
Katherine B. Adams
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The mist is rising
Color and sunlight give way
Wings cool the air
Kathy Ryan
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What would Henry do
With this foreign war we have?
No doubt leave Iraq."
David Bonnar
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bed is a lover
who is easy and ready
and always wants more
Allan Bowhill
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Lover of nature.
Supported the common man.
Ahead of his time!
Lora Palmer
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Abolitionist.
Essayist. Loner. Walden.
Wanted justice done.
Lora Palmer
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Food, shelter, clothing
And fuel for season’s changes
Thoreau’s simple truth.
Harold Frazier
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Stark simplicity
Henry David Thoreau’s name
Stands tall for all that.
Harold Frazier
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MORNING
Dew beads on the buds
As sweat on the brow of man
While God’s sun beams down
Brenda J. Gross
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EVE
Frogs croaking at dusk
Whip-Poor-Wills singing in the fields
Birth of Spring at eve
Brenda J. Gross
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NATURE, FRIEND OR FOE
Nature, friend or foe?
Creates and ends by design
Man destroys by choice
Robert L. Xifaras
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HENRY
A pond cradles life
Tilling soil, bees continue
You are in the air.
Valerie Bedford Warren
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Friend of fish and fowl
Proponent of ‘less is more’
Not me - - H.D.T.
Louise H. Odell
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THOREAU’S MOONLIGHT ROW
i.
Moonlit Fairhaven,
Henry rows, flouting, drifting,
Mirror world beholds.
ii.
Mist and moonbeams rise,
River mirrors hills and sky,
Frog and flute unite.
iii.
Still river, swollen,
Draws the line for ink blot fold,
Dual world below.
Juliet Wheeler
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I see Henry’s point
Reflecting on Walden Pond
A fine line divine
Tina S. Belanger
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Full moon at midnight
Luminescent pendulum
Silent Walden Pond
John Small
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As the ripples grow
I feel the ghost of Thoreau
One with Walden Pond
Jake Denney
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each morning dawns fresh
birds greet the sunrise with song
listen to the joy
evening peace settles
the dark pond mirrors moonrise
silence speaks aloud
Barbara B. Feehrer
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A simple raindrop
Imparts a ceaseless ripple -
The life of Thoreau
Dan McCarthy
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i.
Stillness at daybreak
The shadow of a heron
Over Walden Pond.
ii.
Snowflakes, acorns, leaves,
Words from the Book of Nature,
Written for Henry.
iii.
Sky in the water,
Water from the sky rain drop
Circles, fishes’ eyes.
iv.
Worn paths at Walden
Pilgrim multitudes seeking
A singular man.
Philip E. Burnham, Jr.
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‘aerial brother
to the wave’ this low marsh hawk
over wind-stirred grass
ruffed grouse mating calls--
though far away, they still hear
the distant drummer
each bubble in ice
a lens in early spring sun
melting winter cold
good for upland grass
this rain, though its strong excess
rots low plantings, low thoughts
in late night fishing--
how does one cast upward hooks
for celestial fish?
purslane for supper
with a fresh-caught baked lake fish--
that’s how to know beans
thawing sand and clay
downhill in runnels oozing--
a net of leaf veins
Paul O. Williams
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You built your castle
and the foundation lives on,
inspiring new dreams
Ellen Vliet Cohen
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Water, sun dappled
and fern fringed; your heaven is
still beneath our feet
Ellen Vliet Cohen
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Does your lake still gauge
the depths of men’s souls, or is
it clouded, weeping?
Ellen Vliet Cohen
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AT WALDEN POND
Sitting by Thoreau’s house
Only the bird calls, harsh and sweet
Clash with the silence
Charles Phillips
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1. rowing past hopeful
rowing past hopeful
birch bark rod -- sneak warning splash...
fishy vigil spoiled!
2. crossing ferry's chain
crossing ferry's chain
that binds the banks, this rower
won't pay tax for slaves.
3. beach plums
beach plums almost ripe,
noise of fox in night near tent...
prone on buffalo.
Joan Kimball
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Cape Cod’s soothing voice
Sea songs of old transcend time
Beckoning me home
Natalie Scavone
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In crisp depths of blue
Flares of maples’ passion dance
Just before they fall.
Edwin Sargent
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Walden Pond Cabin
three feet shorter than this year's
Chevy Suburban
Susan Zekas
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Wind ripples the pond
as the turtle dove sings your
transcendental song.
Leo Kulinski, Jr.
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Full moon at midnight
Luminescent pendulum
Silent Walden Pond
John Small
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A FATHER’S PLEA
Yo! Henry David
What's up with that nature stuff?
Get a real job, son
William J. Gaydos
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FOR HENRY
Though you fathered none
How vast your seed’s dispersal!
Entire earth your heir.
Margo Van Kuren
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As day is to dawn
Sun to stars and God to sky
Nature is to life
Sheryl Wescott
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Geese pepper white-velvet fields
Haunting cold mists
Rest on weathered feathers
Ann Marie Glenn
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Seed of an idea
Planted in the right man's mind
Sends roots to cleave rock
Ronald Keith
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Poverty of thought,
Want of imagination
Prevent the sunrise
Ronald Keith
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Live not the bee's life –
Civil disobedience
Does not the hive love
Ronald Keith
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Thoroughfares traverse
Under an ebony sky
Sirius-dogwatch follows
Ann Marie Glenn
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In his solitude
he could see, us and nature
join spiritually
Thoreau taught us truth
Using his philosophy
Helping us to understand
Humans and nature,
Connected spiritually
We go hand in hand.
Teresa McGinley
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WALDEN
Forever its Spring,
In the leaves of Thoreau's prose.
Such peace, this pond knows.
Jason Lyon
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Leaving, the mountain
gathers up its slopes into
new and total sights.
Helen Christensen
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Spurned ‘David Henry’…
Was this a mere twitch of the
Family pencil?
David Dunsmuir
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a stone's throw from town
he found his own Universe
underneath a stone
Peter Newton
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"write it down," he said
son of a pencil maker
who kept it simple
Peter Newton
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he sends me on walks
my quiet desperation
something to enjoy
Peter Newton
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Live simply, rejoice
in all that we are given
Thoreau reminds us
Henry Mannix Burke
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YOUNG THOREAUVIANS
Submitted from a Massachusetts grade school
GERMAN SHEPHERDS
Big lovable pups
Play in my yard with a ball.
They are friendly dogs.
Mya
SUMMER
It’s hot and sweaty
I am ready to go in
a fun frigid pool
Samantha
BIRDS
Rustling in the dirt
They are looking for their food
They fly to their nest
Ryan
SUMMER
Going to the beach,
Feeling wonderful and free,
Ready for some waves.
Maddy
SNOW
Amazing weather,
Covering the ground in white,
Winter’s perfect gift.
Bobby
FALL
Leaves fall from the trees
Walking makes a crunching noise
Gold, red, orange hues.
Kylie
WINTER
Cold frigid weather
Icy fierce freezing winds blow
Magical snowflakes.
Kyle
SNOW
White, fluffy snowflakes
A multitude of patterns
Falling from the sky
Jackson
FALL
Crisp, cool Autumn air
Colors of the falling leaves
Really make me smile.
Taylor
OWL
Swooping airborn flight,
Glistening gold eyes shimmer,
A mighty hunter.
Bobby
TREES
Full of greenery
Deciduous evergreens
Big, tall, with rough bark
Matthew
Big watermelon
Summer fruit, thick skin, red flesh
Juice drips from my chin.
Danielle
SUMMER
Sweaty, hot, sunny
Watch the water glittering.
No school, hit the pool!
Chrystina
STRAWBERRIES
They are red when ripe.
Growing on vines in my yard.
Picked, washed then eaten.
Sydney
CHEETAH
Spotted animal,
Broad, sleek, yellow, meat-eater,
Fastest land mammal.
Julia
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