Earth Day Challenge Results
In solidarity with Earth Day’s 50th anniversary on April 22, Sausalito Beautiful challenged the community to share their own Haiku or short poem regarding what the Earth means to them. Here are the creative, thought-provoking, and absolutely stunning results!
The Humble Bumble
Behold the bumblebee
As humble as only he can be
Bending stems to near breaking points,
Brushing pollen on blossoms, like queens he anoints
Honoring flowers like royalty,
Because he’s a humble, bumble bee.
Debra Andelin
Earth rolls into town like she owns the place
copper-skinned and curvy
bare feet caked in mud
sun braided through her hair
she sifts soil in her calloused hands
fills her pockets with seeds that shine
kneels down low to the ground and sings a song of thanks
smiles like she’s got a secret!even as she is swallowed up
returned to the dark womb from where she rose
Walking in silence
Leaves rustle
Footsteps crunch
Red-tails scree
Mother Earth does the talking
Walking in silence
Sea rises
Sickness haunts
Vibrations lowered
Mother Earth knows
Walking in silence
Green slopes
Riot of blue,
Yellow, white
Mother Earth rejoicing
Cathy Stierhoff
Corona virus
Mother Earth telling us it
Is time to re-set
Cathy Stierhoff
The Great Mother Earth displays her tapestry for all to see,
the lilies of the field, the golden Aspen trees.
She births the oceans, and rivers, the painter of deserts and dunes,
she is the architect of spires and mesas, the reflection of the moon.
Our Great Mother is the sustenance for us mortal beings who deign
the arrogance to think She suffers no pain.
John Shoffa
Our hot planet Earth
Long in need of sweet relief
Finally cools down
Debbie Ford-Scriba
Vivid hued wildflowers
Briefly burst our solitude
Into seeds of hope
Dana Whitson
Words to a writer is like the air to a bird,
or the ocean to a whale,
when they come, I am able to exhale.
So as the Earth is to the multitudes.
Earth and space is that noble place
where life awaits and deep within her womb
she cradles me.
Adele Nieto