Seasons Earth Day Poems

Ode to a Tomato Plant
You are the green miracle of the earth, the tender stem that holds the red fruit of life.
You are the generous...

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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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There in the wild river 
By Michelle Morris
11/08/2023

There in the wild river 
Where the white rapids flow
They're chasing down new dreams
They're chasing rainbows

And the salmon...

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The healing of nature in 2020:

Nature continues to grow and thrive. Especially in springtime... And most certainly now, when humans are pretty much out of...

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Flying free
in rooftop ecstasy

Raptor's wings direct
with feathered pins strong, erect
swelling mountain chests
then wings 
brought safely down
protecting Earth's 
most sacred wounds.

Standing Yang
with wings wide spread
Left then...

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I've been warmly remembering
your peak solidarity experience
joyfully shared

When you suggested
in a state-wide wisdom circle
that our cooperative advocacy
might feel more robust
and become more strategically
and resonantly effective
If...

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Spring winds blow their sound,
Winter now is bound.
Knees in,
Melted, sludgy-browned,
Green peaks through the ground.
These in,
Nature's own impound,
Exiled now, grave mound,
Squeeze in.

Snow tries to reason,
Get one...

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beyond the road curve ahead I do not know,
we are still far and distant from winter snow,
autumn has sprayed green leaves some yellow, some red,
as...

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We could widely perceive reasons
for healthy win/win spiritual relationships
and deeply feel seasons
developing wealthy cooperative sacraments
growing nutritional food
and natural fuel
and nurturing fertility

Becoming therapeutic fruit
of nonviolent communion
when...

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Let's go outside!
Look at the mountains.
The deep blue sea.
The seasons changing.

Jump from the thunder.
Feel the ground shake.
Hide from the hurricane.
Run away from the lava of...

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Climate change
does nearly
but not neatly cover up
discomforting complexities
of losing polyculturally rich ecosystems
like transportive air and water
and sacred communion
of sovereign feasting nations

Not really dealing with unresolved...

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Just like those cold landscapes 
With ice in the snow of frosty toes
Winter the greatest foe of natures
ways, on earth, dwell in disguises.

Those who wish...

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A Determined Devil -

As I lay another cedar beam plumb for our home
smoke plumes, serpentine and sulphuric, interrupts the sunshine,
I look below the ridge, Eve...

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Spring leaves swing sway with a to and fro forever breeze of present tense
abiding, while their leafless brothers remember seasons of wistful green 
waverings skyward---dead...

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As climate pathology peaks
toward climax conditions

LeftBrain privileged blindness
and deafness,
tastelessness
replacing savoring,

Absence of green
and sea salty blue
fragrance,
bereft of internal robust feelings
and external wellbeing touch
drop unhealthily
unwealthily away
from enabling...

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