Earth Day Poetry Compilation

With Earth Day 2015 coming on April 22nd, we’d like to get you ready by offering a compilation of our past years’ Green Topics Earth Day poetry. If there are certain poems not listed here please pass them on to us and we’ll post them

To our muse Mother Earth…

We will try to inspire you every Earth Day with some rhyme.

We hope you have a great Earth Day 2015! Please carry and extrapolate the thoughts and respect for the Earth that you feel on this one day to the other 364 days a year.

We begin with a quip from John Muir who we feel is perhaps one of the larger contributors to the recognition of how special the US of A is from the standpoint of natural beauty,

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”

― John Muir

and

“The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.”

― John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

Now the rest

This Old Earth needs our help

To stay fresh and clean and green

With a

Pick it up

Pitch it in and

Throw it in the can

This Old Earth needs a helping hand

from ReallyRoper.blogspot.com

I am the Earth

And the Earth is me.

Each blade of grass,

Each Honey Tree,

Each bit of mud,

And stick and stone

Is blood and muscle,

Skin and bone

And just as I

Need every bit

of me to make

A body fit

So Earth needs

Grass and Stone and Tree

And things that grow here

Naturally

That’s why we celebrate

This day

That why across

The world we say:

“As long as life,

As dear as free,

I am Earth

and this is me!”

Earth Day Earth Poem

Ode To Nature

Oh giver of life, you glorious Sun,

You instinctively know what must be done.

I bask in your warmth to gain energy;

Marvel how you raise up each plant and tree.

You, gracious Moon ever watchful at night

Even aware when your eye is closed tight.

You sway our emotions, also the sea;

Cause turmoil at times or tranquility.

I love you Earth and all of your creatures.

There’s joy in knowing you are our teachers.

I will, to treat you with respect and care

And pray that the world will become aware

When we poison you, we poison us too.

Keeping you balanced will grow life anew.

We are blessed with Earth, sea, wind and fire;

Ether, divine, our longing desire

Helps us to treasure our blessings on Earth

And love that’s bestowed when given our birth.

So embrace loyal Sun and moody Moon

As sweet Nature sings her loveliest tune.

Even the Earth knows well the market must

Align itself with something more than greed.

Ravenous monsters on the future feed,

Their fangs ripping at Earth’s delicate crust.

How might one profit from an empty sea,

Drawing dividends from dying streams?

Although one might find riches at the seams,

Yet none will prosper once the Earth is scree.

Even the Earth Knows Well the Market Must by Nicholas Gordon

Nature’s first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

Nothing Gold Can Stay

-Robert Frost

Plant a tree

Watch a bee

Go clean up the

Sea!!

Let’s leave our planet

to be,

What it intends to be

So we, and all life

Can Be ……..

Bonnie Pelton

We will try to inspire you every Earth Day with some rhyme. This year we have a few selections from last year and a few new entries as well.

We hope you have a great Earth Day 2012! We hope that we all carry and extrapolate the the thoughts and respect for the Earth that many feel on this one day to the other 364 days a year.

This Old Earth needs our help
To stay fresh and clean and green
With a
Pick it up
Pitch it in and
Throw it in the can
This Old Earth needs a helping hand

from ReallyRoper.blogspot.com

I am the Earth
And the Earth is me.
Each blade of grass,
Each Honey Tree,

Each bit of mud,
And stick and stone
Is blood and muscle,
Skin and bone

And just as I
Need every bit
of me to make
A body fit
So Earth needs
Grass and Stone and Tree
And things that grow here
Naturally

That’s why we celebrate
This day
That why across
The world we say:
“As long as life,
As dear as free,
I am Earth
and this is me!”

Earth Day Earth Poem

Earth Day is upon us again and in lieu of a long winded letter on how we should all change our practice to protect the beauty of the planet on which we are lucky enough to inhabit, I thought it may be more spiritual to offer some poems inspired by Earth Day or the writers love of the unspoiled Earth.

Enjoy and Dream

Happy Earth Day from Conserv-A-Store and pass them on if you choose

I am of the earth
She is my mother
She bore me with pride
She reared me with love
She cradled me each evening
She pushed the wind to make it sing
She built me a house of harmonious colors
She fed me the fruits of her fields
She rewarded me with memories of her smiles
She punished me with the passing of time
And at last when I long to leave
She will embrace me for eternity.

I am of the Earth by Anna Lee Walters

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. ~John Muir

seeking comfort in a walk-in closet
this little room is spared
as a forest preserve ridiculously reserved
for leftover green space incorrectly prepared

cigarette butts against our soles
again and again and again
smoke stacks the air until acid rains
throwaways litter mother’s sensitive skin
her pathways have become paper trails
when no one’s looking the common good fails

we subtract life’s essence with knowing hands
with mindless rituals of the manicured lawn
rake nutrients; add fertilizer, plant killer, water
coexisting with nature has been withdrawn
as unkind man advances, the environment recedes
like fiber and flesh that can’t breathe

on a park bench in a walk-in closet
will my children find Earth has gone the distance
or the ecosystem in clear plastic containers
and life decidedly a skeletal existence

Skeletal Existence
[From Eloquence: Rhythm & Renaissance by Usiku at http://www.usiku.net/]

Plant a tree
Watch a bee
Go clean up the
Sea!!
Let’s leave our planet
to be,
What it intends to be
So we, and all life
Can Be ……..

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Earth Day Poetry Compilation

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