Brother Earth Day Poems

Earth
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

Coying the myth .. 

One day for you will unfold the status qou of what Earth was all about. 
Birth will deliver you here.
The...

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Date: December  2042

Early afternoon, Damian was 
Busy in his den planning the trip 
To Trinidad. He called CJ first 
To confirm his commitment to
The...

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The Earth could only watch what happened to the humans their final day
How…whether or not they believed in a God…they all looked to the sky...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Love to survive

A virus
There’s a virus
Roaming among us
It is lurking around us
Our hands cannot guard us
Our loved ones can’t hug us
Love is all we have...

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Empty Glass 
Stained

The house is empty. 
The dogs...
are barking again. 
This happens, 
and.

It is left hanging there, 
for a reason. 
The word...
Says little and less,...

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The Chair

     Calls out my name. 
     It is ever at the side of the bed. 
...

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 I swept away the cobwebs, 
from my still dreaming mind.  
Chugging a cup of obsidian caffeine, 
I watched Brother Sun’s climb; 
the clouds...

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Stop killing the wildlife, 
Stop poisoning the seas, 
Stop us fighting each other, 
Let’s fight all disease,
As a humanity we could go far, 
Discovering the...

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hiding in the lap of this field,
i can hear your barrel
knocking at soil,
chuckling at my 
ramshackled dreams
it was you ,man
you was my brother once ,
younger...

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It was sometime back in the 70's,
my later 20's,
I woke up one morning to realize
EgoSelf as an often dissonant nest 
of natural systemic TaoEarth,
a mindbody...

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Why does dawn dress robust morning,
while dusk undresses sight?
Each dawn incarnates another Earth Day
a lifetime of Easter mornings 
redeeming nocturnal sight's revolution,
another therapeutic day of...

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