ANIMAL PEOPLE FORUM | Mary de La Valette | Activity https://animalpeopleforum.org/members/mary-de-la-valette/activity/ Activity feed for Mary de La Valette. Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:41:44 -0700 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.2.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 609630f32e8bb531870d13d16708502e Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Change http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=15201 Mon, 23 Oct 2017 22:57:40 -0700 It’s October
In Canada
And I’m still sitting outside
On my deck.
The world is warming
And who knows
How long this beauty
Will continue.

The sun is low in the trees.
Only the tops of the spruce and pin […]

]]> 0 743167b36c0dec63784c3509ab8b834d Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Gaia Redux http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=13950 Thu, 20 Jul 2017 15:00:45 -0700 The old myths
Are all dead.
From Mount Olympus to the Ajanta caves.
Knights slaying dragons,
God,
Country,
All dead.
Smothered
In a blanket
Of screens, iPhones, computers
Self absorption and […]

]]> 0 6b50f695e844dbe9da98dd9bf34090e6 Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Call to Arms http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=8913 Mon, 30 Jan 2017 10:08:04 -0800 All the rains of the Universe
Will not sweeten this little planet.

This evil cancer
Called
Exxon, Monsanto,
Rasytheon, Union Carbide,
Weyerhauser, Hyundai,
Mitsubishi, Maxxam,
Ciba-Geigy, Merck,
Wall […]

]]> 0 fb03ce6228ec93a134944e249d268f90 Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: The Great Symphony http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=8412 Thu, 29 Dec 2016 03:02:30 -0800 (Featured image: bearded seal in Arctic. Credit Allan Hopkins, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Dawn breaks.
The chorus begins
The leaves rustle
The wind plays.
The mourning dove’s plaint
A far-off chickadee
The r […]

]]> 0 03dda035514bd8241289953dd558b6d7 Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: The Return of the Light http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=8146 Sat, 17 Dec 2016 05:58:01 -0800 (Featured image credit Julian Macedo, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

The darkest, longest night.
Earth sleeps.
Life waits.
A hush of fear,
Anticipation,
Wonder, hope,
That the light will return
And save us from […]

]]> 0 c52af09d62d8ed1afab7248027d46cce Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Deja Entendu http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=8030 Sun, 11 Dec 2016 03:19:31 -0800 (Featured image: crow outside the Bin Forest near Huntly, Scotland. Courtesy Wolf Clifton – Animal People, Inc.)

The crow that wakes me
Announcing dawn
Carries me back,
In these first, soft, clear […]

]]> 0 fab88394607cbefdda428b811df6550c Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Symmetry http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=7769 Sun, 20 Nov 2016 02:52:46 -0800 (Featured image credit Julie Falk, CC BY-NC 2.0)

November trees,
Naked in their beauty.
Graceful bare arms
Reaching for the still-warm sun
A tangle of the finest dark lace
Against the pale winter […]

]]> 0 06379ad1164191683689151868a79026 Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: In Sorrow and In Anger http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=7506 Tue, 08 Nov 2016 15:04:48 -0800 (Featured image: working elephants chained in Nepal. Courtesy Wolf Gordon Clifton)

The machines roar
In the forest
On the factory farm,
On the trails,
In the skies,
In the oceans.
Nowhere is there […]

]]> 0 0b9e3baca438433866463e86aeb0fc88 Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Satori http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=7340 Mon, 24 Oct 2016 17:19:41 -0700 (Featured image: monkey atop Tibetan Buddhist stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal. Courtesy Wolf Clifton – Animal People, Inc.)

And the giant, silent Buddha
With eyes of leaden, emerald fire
Quietly […]

]]> 0 fe03b975cc8ab08b9e842c102e1c0be2 Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Mustang http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=7209 Sat, 15 Oct 2016 13:54:28 -0700 (Image credit: Adam Bailey, CC BY-ND 2.0)

Wild horses.
Flowing manes
Exuberant screaming
Thundering over the plains
In an ecstasy of freedom.

Pale, blond palominos
Midnight black steeds
Appaloosas and […]

]]> 0 26e4d078c1faae47a5969c3fdd2da1ef Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Earth http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=6625 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 05:47:02 -0700 (Featured image courtesy Wolf Clifton)

She is beautiful
In all her moods
And seasons.
In heavy rains, brooding,
In Winter’s death, defiant,
In Spring’s rebirth,
Joyous.
In the fullness of […]

]]> 0 871bf6f7722e172ed2ef5009a74d25df Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Raven http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=6583 Sun, 11 Sep 2016 02:42:59 -0700 (Featured image credit: Srdjan Jovanovic, used under CC BY 2.0)

That low guttural squawk
At dusk.
Guardian of the Forest
Some say Creator of Mankind.
What do you think
About the destruction of your […]

]]> 0 051a8ee7cf3c0c56d9b7301cc4e29537 Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, For the Profanity Peak Wolf Pack: "The Lament" http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=6399 Wed, 31 Aug 2016 02:15:42 -0700 (Featured image credit: Lolu Photography, used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

They have run all day
With the caribou.
Now, silvered shadows
On the moonlit tundra
They gather.
In one small last circle
They raise […]

]]> 0 f5b9871d31438285c6077b16b0716800 Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: For Thine is the Kingdom http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=6060 Sun, 21 Aug 2016 01:12:45 -0700 (Featured image: Kestrel, a member of the falcon genus associated with Egyptian gods Ra and Horus. Credit Tim, used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

All Hail to RA
Giver of Life
Who brings forth
The fruit and the […]

]]> 0 a8bc73c68dda5451b90a65762c84e12f Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: The Acadian Forest http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=5839 Thu, 04 Aug 2016 10:53:56 -0700 (Photo credit: Colleen P, used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

In little hidden places
The red fox and rabbit only know
Live the tiny forest flowers.
Mayflowers, foam flowers,
Star flowers, wood sorrel.
Wood […]

]]> 0 0145b13e5a64d763c93584f0d3d24da5 Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Ode to ANWR http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=5684 Sat, 23 Jul 2016 10:51:41 -0700 (Photo credit: Alaska Region U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

I am wolf.
I am caribou.
I am the circle and the blossom
And the unfolding dance.
I am the rich red life-giving […]

]]> 0 fb4a6ab41cbd33a6dcfc1e2903f7ca33 Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Mountain http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=5474 Sat, 16 Jul 2016 04:39:17 -0700 (Featured image credit: laffertyryan, used under CC BY 2.0)

Evening enfolds Her stillness
In a calm, dark mantle.
The Mystery is in my nostrils,
Thick in my mouth.
I can touch it.
It is breath on my […]

]]> 0 8c79d79e0372e20e995fcaf3944c2706 Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: The Light http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=5234 Fri, 01 Jul 2016 09:20:17 -0700 (Featured image credit: Brian K YYZ, used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

The light
Is most beautiful
In the early morning,
Quietly glistening
On dewdrops
And spiders’ webs.

It is, as if
Our poor suffering […]

]]> 0 77c4a105e09f12b14f32e2d0ec3fc16d Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Clearcut Rte 8 http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=4976 Tue, 14 Jun 2016 09:10:18 -0700 A wasteland
Destruction everywhere
Broken trees
Jagged earth
Silence, ugliness,
Desolation.

Where once birds sang,
Squirrels scolded,
Where hazy sunlight
On patches of moss
Gave life to ferns
And tiny […]

]]> 0 7c7bc176395414ee5efe48f1a7469b06 Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: The Bell Tolls http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=4827 Thu, 09 Jun 2016 10:25:01 -0700 (Featured image: stranded pilot whale. Credit Franzi Richter, used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

They slip quietly into extinction
Little fragile ones,
Dusky seaside sparrows,
Mission blue butterflies.
Great […]

]]> 0 345289c827e5c653306b870d601faeda Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Song for the Earth http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=4605 Tue, 24 May 2016 03:00:49 -0700 (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 […]

]]> 0 0e3c369ddb3db313cdd8fe868216fbe9 Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Testament http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=4464 Wed, 11 May 2016 16:57:18 -0700 (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 […]

]]> 0 44de8328393a13ed2f1dccbb1bd4fa1b Mary de La Valette posted a new activity comment http://animalpeopleforum.org/2016/04/19/ecofable-the-little-planet/#comment-383 Thu, 05 May 2016 23:37:37 -0700 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

In reply to - Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, Ecofable: The Little Planet (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. […] ]]> 41a9e0ab2d1de6945303dcf590a015f8 Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, Beyond Stewardship, or The Greening of God http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=4235 Thu, 05 May 2016 06:41:07 -0700 (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, […]

]]> 0 f4c769c37f843b19182aa9225d01c81e Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Pavane For a Dead Young Moose http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=4211 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:51:09 -0700 (Photo credit: Mark Plummer, used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

]]> 0 b2d7d727fc9678c6b5f53d31f2b12d58 Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: For Love of This Earth http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=4193 Sat, 23 Apr 2016 00:27:24 -0700 (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 […]

]]> 0 1dac87ab265e9c8a8ceac9ffc9116ccd Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, Ecofable: The Little Planet http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=4056 Wed, 20 Apr 2016 00:11:16 -0700 (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)

]]> 2 5bb73619237f5c576b0db632b49432e1 Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Of Gods and Men http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=3903 Mon, 11 Apr 2016 04:33:26 -0700 (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 […]

]]> 0 c628736d8ee3b84674f83fe88ea09c65 Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Gaia http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=3724 Tue, 29 Mar 2016 18:53:47 -0700 (Photo credit: Irene Mei, used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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 […]

]]> 0 a917de4945e1302b8cb44e48b5a31912 Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Gaia Warrior http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=3602 Thu, 17 Mar 2016 05:57:23 -0700 (Photo credit: Karunakar Rayker, used under CC BY 2.0)

]]> 0 3e2a348994bbd6f10fadaac8d11af595 Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Benedictus http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=3505 Thu, 03 Mar 2016 00:02:52 -0800 (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 […]

]]> 0 ea72349187cac829bd4322a96d87a379 Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, Ecofable: The Laws of the Earth http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=3456 Wed, 24 Feb 2016 00:19:39 -0800 (Featured image: Ancestral Puebloan petroglyphs in Utah. Courtesy mark byzewski, used under CC BY 2.0)

]]> 0 75a9915d69217d84d01cd4d8ee64c90b Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: River http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=3392 Thu, 18 Feb 2016 01:19:15 -0800 (Photo credit: Harvey Barrison, used under CC BY-SA 2.0)

]]> 0 92455c30bdfb7bff2b4bca335474e9c8 Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Paradise Lost http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=3282 Wed, 10 Feb 2016 09:25:37 -0800 (Photo credit: Bureau of Land Management, used under CC BY 2.0)

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

And the ocean
Flowed with […]

]]> 0 06c583886f118a4a4662880c801ee4d8 Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Entering Nature http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=3206 Tue, 02 Feb 2016 10:55:00 -0800 (Photo credit: Karoli, used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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, […]

]]> 0 4b08d93ee508e8ed087cbba6fed31b57 Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: One Earth http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=3014 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 21:22:49 -0800 (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 […]

]]> 0 631103e783a05b1508ce209714110b58 Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Rapture http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=2909 Tue, 12 Jan 2016 23:17:39 -0800 (Photo credit: Billtacular, used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

]]> 0 1de0ee85fccd53be6a1b810db8c10ac5 Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Mustang http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=2743 Wed, 30 Dec 2015 21:02:59 -0800 (Photo credit: Bureau of Land Management)

]]> 0 6841a512c1bd4a475a087e2e97c4506c Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, The Little Christmas Tree http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=2666 Fri, 18 Dec 2015 20:36:36 -0800 (Photo credit: epSos.de, used under CC BY 2.0)

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 […]

]]> 0 b8e35ba4504c596afbc2348b424b20ba Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: For Caesar http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=2613 Sat, 12 Dec 2015 19:54:15 -0800

]]> 0 5629d5d84da6ad2f8e7697fc9c9cbc2a Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Bluefish http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=2595 Tue, 08 Dec 2015 05:38:37 -0800 (Photo credit: versageek, “The Blues Flop,” used under CC BY-SA 2.0)

]]> 0 64aaf6e40094e1fc4607b7906d1ea16a Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Thanksgiving http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=2361 Mon, 23 Nov 2015 07:38:22 -0800 (Photo credit: Kim Bartlett – Animal People, Inc.)

]]> 0 7ffb8029699ec328697b48210bf931fa Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: A Blue Dot http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=2340 Tue, 17 Nov 2015 06:26:22 -0800 (Featured image: Earth as viewed from Saturn, photographed by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft July 19th, 2013)

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Perhaps Mars once did have “life”.

Perhaps there were once dragonflies and por […]

]]> 0 b16c86f52c692ff30009d5726a1315bd Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: The Animals' Prayer http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=1166 Mon, 28 Sep 2015 18:36:40 -0700

]]> 0 fed4b21a3add1d02c31eba3d5b25c284 Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: The Killing Fields of Quabbin http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=1078 Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:06:58 -0700

]]> 0 4abd9433c2bc2748cef7bdcd6ca5af99 Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Requiem http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=855 Tue, 15 Sep 2015 10:14:24 -0700 (Featured image courtesy Mark Walley, used under CC BY-NC 2.0)

]]> 0 db032cf1893119b2f9948793b7717fa2 Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Man the Destroyer of Worlds http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=801 Thu, 10 Sep 2015 22:15:31 -0700 (Featured image courtesy Vinoth Chandar, used under CC BY 2.0)

]]> 0 7f4c5f8e029acb895b4b55b13a96dae9 Mary de La Valette wrote a new post, POETRY: Looking for a Place to Die http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=789 Thu, 10 Sep 2015 21:22:58 -0700 (Featured image: calico cat in Chinese temple, courtesy Wolf Clifton – Animal People, Inc.)

]]> 0 dac8ed2fc9d91746d6abb9d609a36371 Mary de La Valette's profile was updated https://animalpeopleforum.org/activity/p/830/ Mon, 07 Sep 2015 06:44:23 -0700 0