Tell the World How Lovely Is the Earth

November 15, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is beauty.

Today’s poem is a number poem for a park ranger, whose job is to help people enjoy the beauty of the Earth.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Tell the world how lovely is the Earth.

Hear, O World! The Earth! The Earth is lovely!

Introduce the guests to their own home.

Remind them, please, that everything's on loan,

That what they borrow they should not use roughly,

Yielding back a jewel of equal worth.

Find words to give them words that are their own.

One can be a midwife of rebirth.

Undo with patience people in a hurry,

Restoring melodies they then can hone.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/tellth.html . For more poems about the environment, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/environmentalpoems.html.

This week’s theme: Beauty.

November 14: At Evening the Boats Crowd Towards Shore

November 15: Tell the World How Lovely Is theEarth