My annual earth day poem: Have I thanked you leaves? Have I thanked you leaves For springing forth unerringly Covering with bright green sleeves Your winter hardened twiggery, Re-charged with chlorophyllic potency? Have I fully come to realize all my senses Sniffing the sweet aromatic atmosphere Of Robinnia, Rosaceae, camaldulensis, Re-framing mental arches with wisteria Countering with cyclic antidote - the widespread hysteria? Have I thrown my inner windows open yet To the new bird songs longing for renewal Their dulcet tones a balm to bomb and jet, Recognizing the seasonal resilience as accrual Far more valuable to resolve all nature-cheating threats? Have I consciously reclaimed the link my footsteps daily make With soil and continental crust and elemental ground; Have I reflected on the leafy source of every breath I gaily take Or on the shared inhales we all exchange-so oxy-genetically bound Have I thanked us all as part of earth and air and universal sound? -jhaffur khan azad darakth, earth day, 2016 Jeffrey Y Campbell Manager, Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) FAO -Forestry Department, Room D-424 Viale delle Terme di Caracalla - 00153 Rome, Italy Tel.: +39 -06 57054530 office, +39 3351977349 mobile [log in to unmask] www.fao.org/partnerships/forest-farm-facility [cid:image003.png@01D19C9A.846233E0] ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the FFF-Facilitators-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.fao.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=FFF-Facilitators-L&A=1