I celebrate our earth everyday and not just one week out of a year by working hard at leaving a smaller footprint, by recycling, repurposing and reducing my needs. I practice this in my art and in my home and in my personal life. My contribution to this blog prompt is to post a poem I wrote a few years ago for a contest on the poetry site I belong to.
Both of the photographs posted were taken in San Francisco in 2013.
Mortals
As the
moonbeams touch down and turns the grass to silver
As the rays of the sun bow their heads and give way to the bewitching hour
As the breath of Mother Nature escapes her lips the earth shivers
Only then do we as mortal man know we are weak and have no power
We try to tame mountains and rivers and fly to outer space
We say we are only seeking to live together in peace
We all too often forget to 'live and let live' within our God's grace
And until we do, the winds of our torment will never cease
Until we stop judging each other based on our beliefs or race
Until we can live together with no walls to keep others out
Until we learn we are all God’s creatures who he wants to embrace
Only then can we be happy of that I have no doubt
No matter how far we travel in outer space
No matter how many mountains and rivers we tame
Until we are kind to each other and in Mother Nature's good grace
We will have no one but ourselves left to blame
Darlene Sperber
June 20, 2008
As the rays of the sun bow their heads and give way to the bewitching hour
As the breath of Mother Nature escapes her lips the earth shivers
Only then do we as mortal man know we are weak and have no power
We try to tame mountains and rivers and fly to outer space
We say we are only seeking to live together in peace
We all too often forget to 'live and let live' within our God's grace
And until we do, the winds of our torment will never cease
Until we stop judging each other based on our beliefs or race
Until we can live together with no walls to keep others out
Until we learn we are all God’s creatures who he wants to embrace
Only then can we be happy of that I have no doubt
No matter how far we travel in outer space
No matter how many mountains and rivers we tame
Until we are kind to each other and in Mother Nature's good grace
We will have no one but ourselves left to blame
Darlene Sperber
June 20, 2008
That's wonderful, Darlene. Live and let live is so simple, but where do we find it unless we do it ourselves?
ReplyDeleteWonderful poem — "Until we are kind to each other and in Mother Nature's good grace" is so true. We are made of her particles and she is our Mother in so many ways. The nature of poetry is truth. Bless you for speaking it so clearly, Darlene.
ReplyDeleteI love your poetry, Darlene! Your words paint an image in my head as though I were looking at one of your paintings. I very much appreciate your perspective that the path to protecting our planet is to "stop judging each other based on our beliefs or race...live together with no walls to keep others out...learn we are all God’s creatures who he wants to embrace. It is this desire to be separate from one another that separates us from the Earth itself and has us believing that we can just find another environment to conquer to meet our needs. I can't help believe that what's 'out there' is in any way superior to what's right here beneath our feet.
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