Nature Poetry
Nourished Out Of Nothing
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I sheltered neath a tree today
A willow by the stream
A copse of oak and ash behind
Rose up from field of green
And all along the riverbank
Amongst a brambling cascade
River birch and yew trees stood
Like soldiers on parade.
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While waiting for the rain to stop
It occurred to me
How clever mother nature was
To turn seed into a tree
Cos looking at the landscape
Solid green and sound
It was clear those trees didn’t steal
Their structure from the ground
Yet there they were in splendour
Sprouting out the land
Nourished out of something
I don’t understand
Just day and night and sunshine
And rain they need that’s all
And they’ll flourish out of thin air
Now ain’t that remarkable
Have We Taken for Granted
Have we taken for granted
The oceans the mountains and streams
The colour of nature’s diversity
Sustained in the blues and the greens
The delicate balance the animals know
Who take only sufficient to sate
The birds and the bees
The flora the trees
And the way they all interrelate
Abodes and wonderous migrations
The Zebra the lion attacks
And the breath-talking sight
Of a whale’s gentle might
As he carries the sea on his back.
Have we bitten the hand that has fed us
Pillaged the land and the seas
Have we plundered too many resources
And burned them just as we please
Poured too much fuel on the fire
And recoiled away from the heat
In relentless pursuit in a race with no line
Except one that says obsolete
If so let’s just take a moment
Reconsider the direction ahead
Heal who’s been injured or left in the wake
And patch up their wounds where they bled
And realise cohesion is better
That we can’t win this race on our own
Cos the Earth belongs to everything in it
And the world is everyone’s home
THE SUN THE EARTH AND THE SEA
The Sun the Earth and the Sea
The moon the wind and the rain.
Grassland, flora and tree
Creators of fruit and of grain
Plankton made out of nothing
Sustaining all in the sea
A gift to everything living
A gift to you and to me
The Sun the Earth and the sea
The night the day and the dawn
Fauna flora and tree
Here before we were born
An opus of correlation
Their vocalist humanity
And all they ask the singer to try
Is sing with them in harmony
