A Mary Oliver poem for Earth Day: “Ghosts” looks back at the large buffalo herds and forward to what it will take to restore nature.
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Earth Day: Mary Oliver Notices
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For Earth Day, Resist Despair
In “Beginners” Levertov urges us to resist despair: “So much is in bud.”
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The World Calls to You Like Wild Geese
For Earth Day, an Oliver poem that lays out the first principle of environmental activism: love the earth.
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Manifesto for the Earth’s Future
Wendell Berry’s manifesto of “The Mad Farmer Liberation Front” is worth revisiting on this 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day. It captures the spirit of the times.
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Earth Day: Please Brake for Woolly Bears
Scott Bates’ Earth Day poem calls for protecting even caterpillars. After all, sometimes they grow up to be Keats’ tiger moths with their “deep damasked wings.”
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Mother Goose’s Ecological Warnings
Scott Bates’ variation of familiar Mother Goose rhymes warn us of environmental devastation.
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The Day Rabbits Attacked Napoleon
In honor of upcoming Earth Day, I share a poem based on an actual incidents where hundred of rabbits released to be hunted by Napoleon turned on the emperor’s party and routed them.