Twenty-Five Remembers When the World

April 26, 2019

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 on April 22, and Arbor Day, which is celebrated on April 26.

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A number poem about the harmony between humans and their environment before the domestication of plants and animals:

Twenty-five remembers when the world

Was not our slave, when rivers danced and sang

Entering their gauntlets, when grass and fire

Needed each other, and earth and flood. The choir

Then sang full throated, the food each season sprang

Yet thrashing to the feasts of those who served.

For thousands of millennia we lived

In harmony with those we ate, their spirits

Vested momently in flesh, their avid

Embers still in love with those who grieved.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: The Environment

4/22: And These Are the Islands

4/23: Global Warning

4/24: Mountains Mark the Boundaries of Our Dreams

4/25: Thirty-Two Guards Well a Sacred Place

4/26: Twenty-Five Remembers When the World