Yep, this review probably contains spoilers. Also, because its themes address directly environmental issues, I’ve given it a more thorough critical treatment than I gave The Charge at Feather River. Thanks in advance for taking the time to read it. Finally, this movie contains intense battle scenes and a frightening pirate villain, either of which [...]
Keep your craggy, up-thrust mountain peaks!
Your chasms and your cliffsides roughly made
From clattering and shattering of plates
In the devil’s galley by some shade!
I’ll have my soft-edged tinder coulee view,
Tan and green, and gently, supply formed
Like mother earth was always thought to be:
Green-crowned, or seascape prairie grass adorned,
Our traces nestled, sheltered, on her knee.
There’s hope in [...]
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Virginia is in 4th grade and enjoys the Warriors book series by Erin Hunter. She has started exploring photography since her father found her a digital camera at Goodwill. Nature is a favorite subject for her to take pictures of. You can find more of Virginia’s work posted on WIZ [...]
Her family sailed to exotic lands
where elephants waded through rivers,
women wore silk saris, coconuts hung
from palms, and monkeys raced
along beaches. Her brown hair wisped
around her temples and curled
like orchid petals beside black lashes.
Twice a year, their boat docked by ours,
slipping in quietly on evening tides.
Her aunt was a famous movie star,
her brother sucked on lemons,
and [...]
He walks slowly, his back more straight than not,
his gait timeless. Strong.
Still, there is something hesitant and
questioning about his steps, as though
he were feeling his way through the stony-bottomed
stream of a shallow river. The wide path allows him
to cherish his granddaughter’s hand as they walk
abreast at a pace that suits them both, supporting one
another in [...]
“Have you seen the glory of God?”
I asked my son one night
As we gazed at starlight
He didn’t even nod.
No cityscape to block the rays
From remote celestial beings.
Not brilliant Luna in full array
Can keep us from seeing,
Andromeda, with glorious crown,
Her aged light is found;
Whom Perseus saved anciently
Has now found her own galaxy.
Sirius, Thuban, Polaris,
The stars in [...]
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Ancient chipmunk hole below the pin oak
This burrow has been used for many generations of chipmunks.
Early moonrise in my backyard
Taken in Pennsylvania
View of the Kiskiminetas River through a stand of trees, springtime
Taken in Pennsylvania
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Elizabeth is thirteen years old and enjoys writing and photography. Capturing the magic and beauty [...]
April’s beauty carries with it rain
Wet tear drops falling from the sky
Its premier today, showing up shy
Sliding into slits in buds
Mixing itself with different muds
Slipping down my forehead
Touching my eyelashes ahead
I close my eyes to nature’s gift
While they were closed I did drift
To the month of May’s sweet, sweet scent
To view flowers and green is [...]
“Look, here’s Fezzika,” my mother said, bending down to point out the Woodhouse toad tucked under the garden stone. We had discovered the amphibian’s house a few days earlier, and I was fascinated by the placement choice. She had dug into the soil under a cornerstone edging the flowerbed beside the main path through the [...]
Narrator: It was a sunny day in the town Pudding but no one could see it. There was a cloud in the way of the sun.
Boy: I can’t see anything!
The mayor: We must do something!
All: But what?
Town folks: Ask the king!
Mayor: Not the king!
Boy: That is a good idea.
Mayor: The king does not rule the [...]