Blog PostsFriends | A Robin in a Tree, a poemA Robin in a Tree _ 2021 _ A small thing with a quickly beating Heart. Good to look at, at times, even Fascinating. She, like all her kind, eats Shiny little seeds and tiny pebbles. _ Until the time comes, when it must, She’ll build a small nest out of the Wind, and take wing to search for Small morsels, and flutter as she Chews and reaches down for her Own hungry, cheeping mouths. _ What she does, in her season, is a Beautiful affirmation of care and Love. But, I digress. The lessons Of care and love that go into the Raising up of the next generation, Have been copied, some say, by Instinct’s unknowing animation; _ Generations upon the uncountable, And that’s probably true, but it takes Nothing away from the lessons of Care and love that animate them. You who have young know of what I speak, I’m sure you do. _ And now we’ve come to a reality That’s hard to face, even harder To deal with and try to mitigate. Scientists call it the 6th great death, Or to be less prosaic: extinction. _ Robins will be gone from trees, in A little while. And sterility, well, We all know what that means. The weight of the plastic waste in Our seas, even now, it almost out- Weighs the fishes in all our waters. _ What to do, you ask? Very difficult, But not yet impossible: STOP all Life and business as usual, as though Our very futures depend upon it!!! _ Stop extracting and burning all forms Of carbon for energy!!! Commit to an Earth-wide change to renewable forms Of energy, without any exceptions, for Any peoples or nations. The rich north Must aid the poor south in their change To renewable forms of energy. NOW!!! _ Millions upon millions of good,, well- Paying jobs will be created, planet-wide! And soon after we’ve made the change To non-carbon energy, we can do the Same for non-nuclear energy sources. _ Ask yourselves these questions: would You rather put all you’ve got into life- Saving forms of clean energy production, Or would you rather join, as it impacts Your generations to come, a forever Extinction of life on Earth, our only Home? _ tularcitas: Love this 3 years ago • Report 0 original tao: Hi Sarra, dear friend, I liked dioing this peace, too. I wish I had the courage to forward it to Greta Thunberg or Elon Musk, or any of the millions of well-meaning people who could probably say what I said with far more effective emotive heart tugs, and with a more elan sense verse and purpose than I could ever match. Oh well, I'll keep trying when the spirit moves me....Tao. |