Places Earth Day Poems

Hidden yet rugged
At the bottom of the world 
Cool water flowing
High above Hell’s barren gates
High above ringed deception...

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War crimes
against nations
are like pandemics
against people

And our neighborly places,
homes,
nests
and burrows,
organic host bodies
and soil
and living waters;
sacred spaces,
cathedrals for worshiping integrity
of health 
becoming synergistically wealthy

Unlike militarized campaigns
against...

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Sing Broken Beyond Mankind


because I speak


                IN   

...

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Back in Eighth Graded Class
of StraightWhiteMale English privilege
I learned all healthy narratives
must have at least one
of three tension intentions

Unlike sacred mythic prayer and fable 
multicultures...

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The horror of the night

I had rented a room in the town of Puerto Lemon
in wonderful Costa Rica.
I was going to have an affair with...

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As I age in place
into awareness of replaceability
I bow to humbling curiosity,

Whether more anxious
or anticipating,
I remain conflicted

About predicting
a win/win global healthy climate
sustainable outcome

In which my...

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A pandemic coronated our world with thorns.
It stings came with fame
And locked down the busiest cities;
A reminder that this world has an end.

The miracle workers...

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Holistic position
simultaneously invites further co-passion
and celebrates having become ever more compassionate,

Inspired that Earth stewards hope to rightly balance
human relationships
with our wider ecological responsibilities.

These right relationships
and...

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Mother Earth

We all share this green planet we call earth
We all have been here since our date of birth
We all are guests on this planet...

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We have, I hear,
between each in-out breath,
only our integrity of potential wealth
for empowering health.

And so I feel compelled to ask,
What would it take
to draw us...

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Marvel of ages
The Grand Canyon’s fame lives on
And will as long as
Gaia exists, she is a 
Being who loves to impress.

...

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Marching and dancing and singing
in and of and for healthy climates
regenerating wealthy landscapes,
ideally coming together,
like masturbating in pubic,
but subtly, and trans-genderally clothed,
only on the inside...

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a Rondine

There are lessons here, in the Gold Rush mine – 
a hazard. Might a child fall down the pit?
not in search of gold or...

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This once majestic creature - its form
now a dried hide stretched over mutilated bones.

As defenseless in death, as it was in life,
its tusks hacked from...

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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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