Poetry in the Preserve - 22 October 2023

​A NATURAL SPIRAL OF WORDS

About a dozen people including a number of UW students participated in the October 22 "Poetry in the Preserve" 4th Sunday of the month Bird and Nature Adventure at the UW Lakeshore Nature Preserve. Stunning Fall colors with a blue sky and bright sunshine created a perfect day for a meditative nature walk along University Bay. Friends of the UW Lakeshore Nature Preserve FLNP Chairperson Will Vuyk led the group to several scenic spots where volunteers read aloud some of the beautiful and thoughtful poems collected from the Friends' "Its In Our Nature" Poetry Nights and used the new Poetry Trail signposts where people can stop anytime and scan a QR code to view and listen to the poems. Along the way a pair of Bard Owls sang their sonorous poetry from the woods and rafts of Coots thrashed the water into sparkles as people jotted poetic words they liked on post it notes. After the walk everyone gathered around a campfire to weave their words together and collectively created a special spiral shaped poem in honor of a magical day at the Preserve

Report and photos by Paul Noeldner.