Poetry – Sacred Ground

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Sacred Ground

Once it’s gone it can’t come back.

Sacred ground,

Desecrated,

Ripped and torn.

Lies abound!

Bit by bit,

Under concrete

Dead and gone.

Chopped and shot,

Poisoned and mauled,

Short and long,

Raised to the ground.

Life once plentiful

Now is scarce,

Decimated,

Most profound,

Vestiges

Clinging onto

Desecrated,

Sacred ground.

Opher 4.4.2019

When I was young the world was full of life, jungles were unexplored, Africa teemed with creatures. My back yard was full of butterflies and bees, the ditches had sticklebacks, newts and frogs, hedgehogs came to call.

Nature is sacred ground. It is profound. It is being decimated.

Poetry – The Thin Blue line of life.

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The Thin Blue line of life.

Just a thin blue line around the edge of the globe,

A tiny layer of life.

It glows electric blue against the background of space

On the edge of a knife.

Sustained by circumstance in a delicate network

Of life and magnetism.

As chlorophyll uses sunshine and carbon dioxide to give

Our atmosphere its baptism.

So when we look up the sky is blue

As the warmth and light from our star comes through.

The beauty of our planet could so easily be supplanted.

We really shouldn’t take it for granted.

Opher – 14.6.2019

When I see photos of the Earth from space I am always astounded by how thin our layer of atmosphere really is. It is held in place by our magnetic field that prevents it being swept away by the solar wind. Its composition created by plants. So many other things combining to create that thin blue line that sustains us all.

It is delicate.

We fill it with smoke, chop done our forests and pollute our seas. Yet we expect it to remain unchanged.

Perhaps we should not take it for granted?

Poetry – Leaf and Scale

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Leaf and Scale

Leaf and scale

Eye and tail

Precious  Precious

Protoplast

Chloroplast

Precious  Precious

Bud and tree

Petal and bee

Precious  Precious

Fin and feather

Fawn and heather

Special  Special

Whale and ant

Fauna and plant

Special  Special

Brain and brawn

Shrimp and prawn

Special  Special

Limb and life

Husband and wife

Special  Special

Awe and wonder

No kill or plunder

Precious  Precious

Planet and sky

Sun on high

Precious  Precious

Forest and air

Bluebell and bear

Special  Special

Water and rock

Hen and cock

Special  Special

Earth and worm

Virus and germ

Precious Precious

Warmth and light

Oxygen and sight

Precious  Precious

Biosphere

Centromere

Precious  Special  Unique

Opher 25.6.2018

The whole of our biosphere is one amazing event and utterly unique. Every bit of it is special and precious.

If only we could stand back and see how miraculous it is and worship every last piece of this incredible jigsaw of life.

Instead we treat it with disdain and destroy it with derision, contempt and callous disregard.