a bird dives - haiku

a bird dives

wings scattering light

a worm dies

a worm dies

turns into bird wings flight

earth meets sky

earth meets sky

hurtling through a space field

a pulsing orb

a pulsing orb

that appears and disappears

nothingness

~~~

World Gratitude Day

Today is World Gratitude Day and I wrote a post on my new blog dedicated to all things Earthy ...


Down to Earth Life


Note to myself : now I must keep up the posts :)

Poem of the Day : Earth Day

by JANE YOLEN

I am the Earth
And the Earth is me.
Each blade of grass,
Each honey tree,
Each bit of mud,
And stick and stone
Is blood and muscle,
Skin and bone.

And just as I
Need every bit
Of me to make
My body fit,
So Earth needs
Grass and stone and tree
And things that grow here
Naturally.

That's why we
Celebrate this day.
That's why across
The world we say:
As long as life,
As dear, as free,
I am the Earth
And the Earth is me. 

~~~

On the rocks

Today is Earth Day. Hope the Earth is happy with the way we are treating it.

(Akatarawa Forest, Wellington, February 2013)

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Always been here

Always been here

how many species have to vanish

how many life forms do we banish

before we finally begin to see

how violent we are, how greedy

tearing up our home in plunder,

raping the earth, our mother

what are we teaching our children?

to sow greed, reap destruction?

after we’ve lost the polar bear

laid all the lush forests bare

after the last whale is gone

animal habitats have been shorn

maybe we will begin to see

when it’s not too late, hopefully

the earth is not a chattel

to barter, buy and resell

the forest, the mangrove, the lake

is not ours to pillage and take

the earth is a home we share

with those who have always been here

~~~