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

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