Child Planet Poems

In the mid 80's, I took a job as a receptionist for a wholesale floral company.
Encased in a glass claustrophobic space, I answered their busy...

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Countless millennia of the
Earth’s molten core 
Heaving on tectonic plates, 
Have ripped continents apart 
From gorge to sky,
The wonder is … 
They can be bonded...

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Last night I watched the movie “Nang Nak”;
the hero returns home after a war,
lives with the ghosts of his wife and child,
unaware they had perished...

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That first black and white
grainy
strangely fluid
floating
flat screen view
of the early developing individual
inside EarthMother's womb

Reminds me
of that first
full-spectrum green and blue
strangely white cloudy
moistly floating
slowly revolving
flat screen...

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Father's Day ushered in cooler air
So nice out on the porch
Sun rising in clear luminous glow
Not a red flaming torch

A hummingbird seeks food at blooms
The...

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Chosen Child, crowned this night,
Whilst fireworks light the sky;
Take over please as ruler now
Before we elders die.

We leave you all this Planet and
Dark Universe beyond;
Your...

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A Commentary on

"A Note on the [Patriarchal-Colonizing] Treatment
of Plant Names"
by Robin Wall Kimmerer, p. 385
BRAIDING SWEETGRASS:
INDIGENOUS WISDOM,
SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE,
AND THE [SACRED] TEACHINGS
OF PLANTS

I too often accept
with...

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Humans destroying human settlements.
This is an integral part of war.
The war of two neighboring governments!
You'll be forgiven for asking what for!

Beautiful buildings are hollow shells.
Tangled...

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Earth; ruined by the bombs and mortarBillions of kinfolk are then slaughtered
Nature is our life's real governing forceCovers the scars, in its own due course
A...

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The sky was limpid, and the sun rose splendidly. 
When I urged ardent nature to pen, it did so swiftly. 
Scarcely note the key themes...

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Pluto a small planet-outermost part of the solar system                ...

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I smiled when the world was ended. I pretended not to care.
I thought it only fair you see, to suffer such indignity with some restraint.
You...

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She cries for her children,
her body sick and spent,
poisoned by her own.
Disconnection breeds ignorance;
sever the umbilical,
a disconnected cable brings on malfunction;
a child taken from its...

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Rainbow Saturn had heard of the exodus and wanted to see 
So she crept along the skyline, and took a peek, and yelled a whoopee...

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