Poem of the Week

April 20: Each of Us Is like One Drop of Rain

April 21: Even the Earth Knows Well the Market Must

April 22: Each Must Save the Earth in Multiple Ways

Even the Earth Knows Well the Market Must

April 21, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Earth Day, which is celebrated tomorrow, April 22^nd.

Today’s poem is a poem for Earth Day about the self-destructiveness of greed.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

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.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/event5.html. For more poems for Earth Day, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/earthdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Earth Day

April 20: Each of Us Is like One Drop of Rain

April 21: Even the Earth Knows Well the Market Must

Friday, April 20, 2018

Each of Us Is like One Drop of Rain

April 20, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22^nd.

Today’s poem is a poem for Earth Day comparing organized political activity to a rainstorm.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Each of us is like one drop of rain,

A single splatter on the thirsty sand.

Remember, though, that drops fall not alone,

The products and producers of a grand

Harmony that waters well the plain.

Do not think, then, that you're on your own,

A tiny drop upon a dying land.

You are a storm, whose green fields will remain.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/eacho3.html. For more poems for Earth Day, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/earthdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Earth Day

April 20: Each of Us Is like One Drop of Rain

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Environment Is Greater than Environs

April 19, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22^nd.

Today’s poem is a poem for Earth Day about how profoundly the environment is global.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Environment is greater than environs,

As Sahel sand feeds forests in Brazil,

Russian winters cool Antarctic krill,

The price of phones affects the fate of lions.

How foolish, then, to think in terms of nations,

Dividing what is indivisible,

As though each government could work its will.

Yet melting ice can jiggle Earth’s gyrations.

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

This week’s theme: Earth Day

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Even if the Cities on the Coast

April 18, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22^nd.

Today’s poem is a poem for Earth Day about the survival of life on a devastated Earth.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Even if the cities on the coast

Are inundated by the rising seas,

Ravaged dunes and barrier beaches lost

To tides that top steel berms and stunted trees,

Heat reaches for the poles, and life goes on,

Devastated, yes, surviving still,

As in times past whole habitats were drowned,

Yet this time only by an act of will.

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

This week’s theme: Earth Day

Everyone Is Murdering the Earth

April 17, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22^nd.

Today’s poem is a poem for Earth Day about the communal responsibility for destroying the environment.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Everyone is murdering the Earth.

All equally are guilty of this crime.

Redemption can be had, for what it’s worth,

Though we seem to lack both will and time.

How might we restructure all we do,

Deconstruct millennia of sin,

Adjust our dreams to what we know is true?

Yet we must remake ourselves within.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/every8.html. For more poems for Earth Day, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/earthdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Earth Day

Sunday, April 15, 2018

If Each House Had a Solar Panel

April 16, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22^nd.

Today’s poem is a poem for Earth Day about replacing power plants with solar panels.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

If each house had a solar panel

Built into its roof,

Incentivized so profitably

That few would stay aloof,

Each would be, just like a leaf,

A mini power plant,

Of which there would be forests that

Would furnaces supplant.

The Earth would breathe again, and keep

Its streams and rivers wild,

Its oceans free of thick, black gook,

Its deserts undefiled.

Oh, yes, there would be power plants,

But few and far between,

As urban forests sprouted leaves

That turned the landscape green.

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

This week’s theme: Earth Day