POETRY: Paradise Lost
Once
There were rivers of birds
Flowing, swirling,
Connecting light and beauty
Between Earth and Sky.
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Browsing: Art
POETRY: Entering Nature
Yes, there is beauty
Enormity of beauty and truth.
But there is immense pain and suffering.
The wind and the clouds
And the rain
Bring messages, you know…
POETRY: One Earth
When the birds are gone
Will we care?
Will we sit outside
And mourn the quiet?
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POETRY: Rapture
Come with me
To the forest’s heart
Where the green tapestry
Starred with jeweled birds
And fragrant flowers
Enters the blood
And calls you home…
Treasures in A Swamp
Just me hunting for shots with my camera while the whole family walked ahead of me. I paused for every movement made by the macaques.
POETRY: Mustang
Wild horses.
Flowing manes
Exuberant screaming
Thundering over the plains
In an ecstasy of freedom…
Beasts, Buddhas, & Vegan Punks of AFJ: Archipelago Animal Adventures, Days 7-8
Animal People executive director Wolf Clifton recently traveled Indonesia visiting animal projects, prior to the Asia for Animals 2015 conference in Kuching, Malaysia. Highlights in this entry include: animals of myth in ancient temples, and late-night activism with Yogyakarta’s craziest cat ladies!
The Little Christmas Tree
Once upon a time, there was a little Christmas tree. He lived in a forest with his family and all his friends, the birds and the squirrels, the raccoons and the deer and the bears. He couldn’t wait to grow tall and touch the stars and the sky as his father did…
POETRY: For Caesar
Empty chat of jobs and soaps
Like a dark cloud I watch
As we carelessly murder the earth.
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POETRY: Bluefish
“A fish” – they cried,
“We caught a fish.”
Stocky little cruel faces,
Alive with the excitement
Of the kill…
POETRY: Thanksgiving
On this day
I give Thanks
For this good, green Earth
That gives me Life.
And I give thanks
For the miraculous tapestry
That connects me to all things…
POETRY: A Blue Dot
Perhaps Mars once did have “life”.
Perhaps there were once dragonflies and porcupines
Elephants and roses
And there had to be humans…