farmer's field | Nina Munteanu Writing Coach

*Snow covered farmer’s field at sunset, ON (photo and rendition by Nina Munteanu)*

Ice clad prisms, snow covered fields of glittering fire…
Winter days, the wondrous glow: ultramarine lights and turning shades
The magic song: ice and gently underflow of meandering streams
Singing waters on the tortuous pathway below…
Clangor, bell sounds: the moving harmonies on icy slopes…

*Jackson Creek in winter, ON (photo and rendition by Nina Munteanu)*

*Ice ‘islands’ touched by sunset light in Jackson Creek, ON (photo and rendition by Nina Munteanu)*

*Ice block in Jackson Creek, ON (photo and rendition by Nina Munteanu)*

*Farmer’s field in Kawarthas, ON (photo and rendition by Nina Munteanu)*

A bronze feathered hawk sails high above
Into the bright sunlit skies,
Hawk, swiftly carried in its flight above bended fir and aspen forests,
A wild, fierce, freewheeling majesty…

*Icy bay and shed in the trees, ON (photo and rendition by Nina Munteanu)*

*Small cabin in a meadow, ON (photo and rendition by Nina Munteanu)*

*Trees by fence in farmer’s field, ON (photo and rendition by Nina Munteanu)*

*Snow from a cedar tree showers down glitter-dust in a light breeze in Jackson Creek Park, ON (photo by Nina Munteanu)*

The many pristine snow reflected lights, glittering fires
Above a snow clad world in a time of darkness:
Nature’s magic universe everywhere extant:
We are overwhelmed, confounded by the wonder of it all.

*Skier checks his path on a slope at sunset, BC (photo by Lindsay)*

*Snow glistening in the sunset on a very cold day, ON (photo and rendition by Nina Munteanu)*

*Reflections in Thompson Creek outlet after a new snowfall, ON (photo and rendition by Nina Munteanu)*

*Otonabee River glittering in the sun, ON (photo and rendition by Nina Munteanu)*

Bev Gorbet is a Toronto poet. She has published several poems with the Retired Teachers Organization and most recently in “Literary Connection IV: Then and Now” (In Our Words Inc., 2019), edited by Cheryl Antao Xavier.

Nina Munteanu is a Canadian ecologist / limnologist and novelist. She is co-editor of Europa SF and currently teaches writing courses at George Brown College and the University of Toronto. Visit www.ninamunteanu.ca for the latest on her books. Nina’s bilingual “La natura dell’acqua / The Way of Water” was published by Mincione Edizioni in Rome. Her non-fiction book “Water Is…” by Pixl Press(Vancouver) was selected by Margaret Atwood in the New York Times‘Year in Reading’ and was chosen as the 2017 Summer Read by Water Canada. Her novel “A Diary in the Age of Water” was released by Inanna Publications (Toronto) in June 2020.