The Earth Needs Its Defenders

May 1, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is trees, in honor of Arbor Day, which falls on April 29.

Today’s poem is about the need to engage the souls of trees if we would save the Earth.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

The Earth needs its defenders. The long healing

Has just begun, has costs, has enemies,

Is fitful, is here and there, is not assured.

Remember that the patient won’t be cured

Till more of us engage the souls of trees,

Yielding to a deep and ancient feeling.

Those who don’t yet feel it must be lured

With wilderness, with art, with games revealing

Our inner tides, the wash of outer seas.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/theea2.html. For more poems for Earth Day, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/earthdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Trees.

April 25: For Ancient Trees Weeping Once a Year

April 26: Ashley

April 27: After You Leave, I Will Become a Tree

April 28: To My Brother, the Tree upon My Plain

April 29: Even Trees Awake to a Breakfast of Light

April 30: Eleven

May 1: The Earth Needs Its Defenders