Earth Day
WE HAVE A BEAUTIFUL MOTHER
by Alice Walker
We have a beautiful
mother
Her hills
are buffaloes
Her buffaloes
hills.
We have a beautiful
mother
Her oceans
are wombs
Her wombs
oceans.
We have a beautiful
mother
Her teeth
the white stones
at the edge
of the water
the summer
grasses
her plentiful
hair.
We have a beautiful
mother
Her green lap
immense
Her brown embrace
eternal
Her blue body
everything we know.
Even the smallest print leaves a mark.
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thanks for sharing and reminding! your pictures are beautiful (of course)!
LOVE! Thanks for this, Tina. I was worried about you when you had gone missing and there were no posts from you. You must have been having secret hiding place meetings to get some Summit stuff done!
Absolutely beautiful! The most lovely Earth Day Tribute ever!!!
Thanks, Tina – that made my day.
Beautiful!!
Happy Earth Day back at you. Rode the bike today and did some prep work for a future vegetable garden. Stood outside after midnight last night and listened to the silence. Too cold for the frogs and most birds asleep. Owls where hooting somewhere. The sky was absolutely wonderful! The heavens were clear and the stars were amazing. Got out the star maps and found 3 new-to-me constellations. If the sky is clear you can see the Big and Little Dippers, Draco, Gemini, Leo, Orion, and Taurus. Plus lots of other things. You have an ocean I have a night sky. Hugs to all (especially that beautiful mother in all of us) Alice
I want to make my son’s teacher into compost after saying my son’s lunch should be more “litterless”. Those are homemade cookies, dumbassbitch.
Oh also, this earth day, I would like to kinder to the people around me. Wish me luck with that one. cheers.
Dear admin, thank you for sharing this post. I found it brilliant. Sincerely, Thomas Daily!