Earth Day?
Reflections On The Planet’s Day of Birth
(For Guy McPherson)
Evening mists
at morn
gloaming dusk
at dawn
Sun keeps
burning low
the moon just
lost its glow
Nature’s weary
of time
as I work this
wayward rhyme
*
An era is
passing on
ere long will
all be gone
Who left to
witness bear
to wake wonder
or care?
*
What price that
grail of gold?
what left neither
bought nor sold?
Seas
restless churn
forests
silent burn
The stars do
fade away
nothing surreal
can stay?
*
End of the world
is nigh?
forlorn both
earth and sky
Save the heart
in endless quest
beyond requital
or rest
Though wan
and woebegone
still softly
sojourns on
[© R.Kanth 2023]
Professor Rajani Kanth, is Author of Coda (A Novel), A Day in the Life (Novel), and Expiations (Verse), and Farewell to Modernism (Political Economy Tract).
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