April 22, 2017
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is the environment in honor of Earth Day, which is celebrated today, April 22.
Today’s poem is a number poem about the need to include all of nature in our social contract.
I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours
Nick Gordon
Twenty-eight would change the social contract,
Writing in provisions for the Earth.
Even as one cedes one’s sovereignty,
Needing to be governed to be free
To live unharmed, each soul of equal worth,
Yet now we must include the spiritual Outback.
Early on we knew what we forgot:
Individuals are parts, not wholes,
Granted a communal mystery
Here within a universe of souls
That equally includes each wren, each rock.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/28f.html. For more poems about the environment, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/environmentalpoems.html.
This week’s theme: The Environment
April 17: From Desert to Forest, from Sun to Shade
April 18: Twenty-Eight5
April 19: Thirty-Five8
April 20: Twenty-Six4
April 21: Thirty-Six7
April 22: Twenty-Eight6
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is the environment in honor of Earth Day, which is celebrated today, April 22.
Today’s poem is a number poem about the need to include all of nature in our social contract.
I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours
Nick Gordon
Twenty-eight would change the social contract,
Writing in provisions for the Earth.
Even as one cedes one’s sovereignty,
Needing to be governed to be free
To live unharmed, each soul of equal worth,
Yet now we must include the spiritual Outback.
Early on we knew what we forgot:
Individuals are parts, not wholes,
Granted a communal mystery
Here within a universe of souls
That equally includes each wren, each rock.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/28f.html. For more poems about the environment, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/environmentalpoems.html.
This week’s theme: The Environment
April 17: From Desert to Forest, from Sun to Shade
April 18: Twenty-Eight5
April 19: Thirty-Five8
April 20: Twenty-Six4
April 21: Thirty-Six7
April 22: Twenty-Eight6
No comments:
Post a Comment