Mary de La Valette Activity

Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Song for the Earth 8 years, 6 months ago

(Featured image credit Pete Lanman, used under CC BY-ND 2.0)

Music of the Spheres
In the star bright night.
The dawn mist
Over the rivers.
The sighing of the wind
In lush green meadows.
Soft Spring […]

Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Testament 8 years, 6 months ago

(Featured image: captive macaque chained to a truck in Java, Indonesia. Photo courtesy Wolf Gordon Clifton – Animal People, Inc.)

I do not want to live
On an Earth
Without wolves and bears
And forests
And […]

Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, Beyond Stewardship, or The Greening of God 8 years, 7 months ago

(Featured image: sunrise at Cagsawa, the ruins of a Franciscan church in the Philippines, partially destroyed by a volcanic eruption in 1814 and abandoned to the elements for nearly 200 years. Credit Chris Nener, […]

Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Pavane For a Dead Young Moose 8 years, 7 months ago

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Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: For Love of This Earth 8 years, 7 months ago

(Featured image: Male quetzal bird in cloud forest, Costa Rica. Credit Francesco Veronesi, used under CC BY-SA 2.0)

Grief is so near the surface
That often I dare not speak
For fear
The words would come
In […]

Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, Ecofable: The Little Planet 8 years, 7 months ago

(Featured image: Abandoned whale oil tanks in the whaling village of Grytviken on South Georgia Island. A lone penguin can be seen in the distance. Photo credit Ville Miettinen, used under CC BY-NC 2.0)

Wolf Gordon Clifton replied 8 years, 7 months ago

May I ask why you chose the name “Shiva” for the humans in your parable? The Hindu god Shiva represents the force of destruction, but not in the negative sense of plundering whole ecosystems out of ignorant greed as humans do – rather, Shiva destroys so as to make room for new creations. Hinduism actually portrays Shiva as a very eco-friendly god, since by driving the cycle of life and death he nourishes the environment and facilitates the process of evolution.
- Mary de La Valette replied 8 years, 7 months ago
  
  wolf…I just found this…sorry.
  
  Maybe a mistake to use His name…but there is a great deal of duality over the role of Shiva.
  
  mary

Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Of Gods and Men 8 years, 7 months ago

(Featured image: mantis on the Great Wall of China, credit Kim Bartlett)

The older I am
The less interested I am
In the petty affairs of men
And the more
I love Earth
And all her other creatures
And […]

Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Gaia 8 years, 8 months ago

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Earth’s green skin is velvet today

With the mist on it

Crushed velvet with her children’s pawprints

Some days it is silk

With young winds […]

Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Gaia Warrior 8 years, 8 months ago

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Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Benedictus 8 years, 9 months ago

(Featured image: rams waiting to be slaughtered for Eid al-Adha, the Muslim festival of sacrifice. Credit TheAnimalDay.org, used under CC BY 2.0)

In the image of God
We poison and trap.
In the image of […]

Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, Ecofable: The Laws of the Earth 8 years, 9 months ago

(Featured image: Ancestral Puebloan petroglyphs in Utah. Courtesy mark byzewski, used under CC BY 2.0)

Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: River 8 years, 9 months ago

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Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Paradise Lost 8 years, 9 months ago

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Once
There were rivers of birds
Flowing, swirling,
Connecting light and beauty
Between Earth and Sky.

And the ocean
Flowed with […]

Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Entering Nature 8 years, 10 months ago

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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, […]

Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: One Earth 8 years, 10 months ago

(Photo: Kakapo, a critically endangered flightless parrot native to New Zealand. Courtesy Shellie, used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

When the birds are gone
Will we care ?
Will we sit outside
And mourn the quiet […]

Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Rapture 8 years, 10 months ago

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Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Mustang 8 years, 11 months ago

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Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, The Little Christmas Tree 8 years, 11 months ago

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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 t […]

Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: For Caesar 8 years, 11 months ago

Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Bluefish 8 years, 12 months ago

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