Mars Not for the Taking
Who owns the moon
Who wants it
Besides Gru
Someone who thinks the mineral rights
Would be glad to take
And to provide through
Taking
And so make the other Earthers pay
Who owns Mars
But that the same agendas
Work
And again the rest on Earth to pay
And
What kinds of lessons will we learn
When we are truly
There
And other places
And the ones before us
Say
Sorry
Wrong number
Phone elsewhere
And then
In a seriousness of Spaceballs
We will decide to take their
Air
So we may have it
And the progenitors
No longer
And keep on this track of
Piracy
And war
Until the cosmos
Squish us out
By the things
Always bigger than
Ourselves
And had we read
The appendix of the guide
That said
Don’t ever do this
And now panic
For
So many things were
And are given
Without
The taking
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Photo by NASA Hubble Space Telescope on Unsplash
Color Our World
(Earth Day)
Tomorrow is
Earth
Tomorrow is
A day
And it will be Earth Day
Shall we have an Earth tomorrow
Shall we have
A day
For green understanding
And gold wisdom
On our
You know
Blue world
Jazz understanding
With the waves
And sudden rushes
Both of wind
And water
The shoreline that
Behind which there is land
Before which
There is contemplation
Also the depths
That bring us danger
From both
The thrill
Of discovery
And the danger
Of encroachment
An Earth that should balance
In its orbit
Where all the planes
Should touch together
A turning point of miracle
And a starting point
For life
And as life
We hope
Should continue
By all means
Celebrate
For she is worthy
Of our partied
And our treasured
Wisdom
And emotion
And pledge perhaps
That we’ll do better
By this day
Next year
And there’s the doing
And the learning
And the doing
So that the blue and green
And gold
And the transparent air
Of what we know
Shall be preserved
Also enacted
For the present
And the future
The future comes not
On its own
All of it
In seeds
We plant today
And also leaving parts
As fallow fields
As the wilderness
Should teach us
By example
Not to say
That civilized is bad
It’s what we here for
Why we have the Earth
To begin with
And the inevitability
Of growth
But there is growth
And there is growth
What we should remember
Of the wild
And of the planned
And to keep both
And all
That is good
In blue and green and gold
And the clear parts
That keep us breathing
And inspiring
Together
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Photo by Tim de Groot on Unsplash
(x = space)
x
x
Earth Day
(2021)
x
And
With Earthlings there
Is a relationship
Dysfunctional and thus
Destructive,
So say
All the tops of trees
Burned
By acid rain
x
Earth survives
As it may
And sometimes must
Fight back
x
We’re only guessing
But with all the metal satellites
Surrounding,
You’d think we’d know
Earth better than
To ruin it
x
Yet we must ask
Victims of hurricanes:
The storm,
The flood that
Take one’s own
x
Earth was no friend,
And who is with them
Now?
Earth and Earthers,
I can only hope
x
Source of pleasure
Source of pain
(source of profit)
It is our world,
Though we eye another
It is our microcosm
And an old,
Old story
x
Moon who watches,
Heaven beyond,
Hell below,
Ten circles in the center
x
Everything we know
In the
Cosmic narrative
x
Maybe it’s time
To release Cartesian
Orientation,
Since lines really
Do not hold down anything
And are twisted when
New encounters
Overthrow
The old
(which is
discovery)
x
Time
To like the Earth
Again and like it better
We should know how
By now
x
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x
x
Satellite over the coast.
x
Dirt Gospel
I like earth
Don’t you?
Some might prefer concrete
I’ll take a covering of pine needles
To walk upon
Breathe air that’s evergreen
Then move out to an open
Space of grass and rock and dew
That takes us home
That would be a day
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Photo by Gabriel Jimenez on Unsplash
22 April
A day for Earth
Earth needs more
But this day will celebrate blue and green
Land and sky
Water and oxygen
And that’s good
We need these
Good to be reminded
The villains will eschew
Hide in dark offices
Under the glare of artificiality
They will glare
Undoing the planet
Fracking off the layers
Mismanaged draining of oil
Allowing poorly valved
Pits of natural gas
To explode
Believing plastic washes away
Far from the profit margin
Until
We cannot drink the water
Cannot trust the rain
Forests are gone
Notre Dame cannot be rebuilt
From ancient timber
What we have has not grown tall enough
This is the world
It is ours
What have we done
What will we do
Answers to questions
They are there
Ask the scientists
Ask the faithful
Ask the Earth
It knows
It’s always known
Not to say it’s sentient
I don’t know
But it is impulsive
Knows how to react
Knows how to share the virtue
In recleansing
Another world won’t save us
This is what we have
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“Earth seen from the Moon” by Petr Ginz.
Petr Ginz – http://personalstoriesfromtheholocaust.weebly.com/petr-ginz.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37616368
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