Category Archives: nature

BOOKS: “Swimming” by Roger Deakin

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Swimming: Vintage MinisSwimming: Vintage Minis by Roger Deakin
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Publisher Site – Vintage Minis

This book contains a collection of excerpts from the book Waterlog by Roger Deakin. It’s one volume from a series of short books that contain essays, stories, poems, or book excerpts that is put out by Penguin under the imprint “Vintage Minis.” The book describes the author’s experiences of wild swimming throughout Britain. The description of nature and of the exhilarating experience of wild swimming are beautifully composed, and it’s an all-around pleasant read.

If you’re interested in wild swimming, I’d recommend this book.

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A Rugged Coast [Free Verse]

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Limestone lumps
   Karst columns
 Dot the waters,
   Like ancient wreckage --
      Wrack & ruin
      Slung near & far
      From coastal homelands;
 A landscape torn asunder
      And littered about,
      But beloved for the beauty
         Of its scraggy, weedy
         Weathered rock.

DAILY PHOTO: Koh Phi Phi from Viewpoint 2

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“Now Close the Windows” by Robert Frost [w/ Audio]

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Now close the windows and hush all the fields;
     If the trees must, let them silently toss;
No bird is singing now, and if there is,
     Be it my loss.

It will be long ere the marshes resume,
     It will be long ere the earliest bird:
So close the windows and not hear the wind,
     But see all wind-stirred.

Scurry [Haiku]

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shore birds scurry,
 evading rolling surf,
  like playful kids.

DAILY PHOTO: Ao Nang Sunset

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“On this wondrous sea” (4) by Emily Dickinson [w/ Audio]

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On this wondrous sea
Sailing silently,
Ho! Pilot, ho!
Knowest thou the shore
Where no breakers roar --
Where the storm is o'er?
 
In the peaceful west
Many the sails at rest --
The anchors fast --
Thither I pilot thee --
Land Ho! Eternity!
Ashore at last!

DAILY PHOTO: Dusky Bay

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Ostrich [Lyric Poem]

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"Oh, beware the trotting Ostrich!"
 I'd never, ever have thought which
 Would be a real concern for me,
 As I sit in cafes and libraries.

DAILY PHOTO: Zebra of Amboseli

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