lifestyle musings of a literary clown (6)

Earth Day poetry 

I love the Earth, and I love trees! I sort of assumed I was going to write a bunch of poems about trees this week, but as I sought inspiration in the photos I took on a hike through the Catskills on Tuesday, these poems came out; a haiku, an idyl, a word soup poem about flowers, and some free verse. I hope you enjoy the poetry and the photos that inspired them. Happy Earth day. xx

4.543 billion years

The Earth gets a day

while sharks get a whole week -

Which one do you fear?

Ashokan reservoir  

Last autumns leaves

Brown as dirt, lack

Color as they crunch

Beneath our feet.

We make our way

Off the beaten path 

To a man-made lake

turned mirror of the sky

The geese, a happy family

Swan on by.

Leaving ripples in reality

In their wake.

If only we could take this boat

And join them.

Leaving life at the shore

As we sail out on reflections

Up into the sky. 

Tulips

from

Two lips

True eclipse

Outgrew conflicts 

(Come through bag of tricks)

Come true what I predict:

‘Earth renew a global shift 

A new chance to coexist

Pursue! Persist! 

You commit

To transmit

Earthly love

With your

Tulips’

Gayea, my goddess  

To me, you are a mountain

caves for lungs,

veins of golden blood

And a heart

of molten lava

You slumber

Just over the river

(Which are your thoughts)

And dream our destiny

Once you walked 

And let down tears as life

Carved canyons from your bones

And made clouds 

From your daydreams

Made love to the stars

And the sun

And the moon

While you danced 

In a spiral 

Out towards the edges of existence

E x p a n d i n g 

With every

Breath.

Now you slumber

Our eternal mother

And we must 

Care for the bounty

You bequeathed us

Least you wake 

And remake the world

Without us in it.

Happy earth day everyone.