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Open Poetry #37

Child of the Earth

terasinas
Member

since 2006-03-24

Posts 91
Michigan ... The Great Lakes

0 posted 2006-03-28 12:51 PM

Child of the Earth

Oh beauteous Earth Mother,
ethereal, tranquil, timeless ...
Cradle me in your arms

This child of yours, now grown,
needs the sheltering comfort
of your restoring embrace

Your healing touch nurtured me
when I was young, teaching me,
guiding me, protecting me ...

Ah yes ... I will always remember
the various forms of you
I miss the green of you

Even now, miles away from
your remote woodland glens, I still
see traces of the one I once knew

Here in the suburbs
of your foreign invaders,
a once glorious place I know existed,

but no longer ...

Now, only carefully planned
streets, neatly manicured lawns,
strip malls and parking lots

Where roads and highways,
gas stations and convenience stores
now stand on every corner, in place of

where you once did ... and I miss you
I miss the green, unplanned, changing
and unchanging, timeless vistas of you

This child of yours longs to grow
in wisdom. It is time to leave all this
and find myself again ... mirrored in you.

Teresa L. Schulz
March 2004

Huan Yi
Member Ascendant

since 2004-10-12

Posts 6688
Waukegan

1 posted 2006-03-29 11:59 AM

Shades of Sappho

Ixtab
Member

since 1999-06-23

Posts 105
MEXICAlpan de las tunas

2 posted 2006-03-29 12:15 PM

I felt you'r naturalistic view searing through my blood. I also felt you'r nostalgia for it, how modern life with all it's comfort has somehow alienated us from ourselves.

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

3 posted 2006-03-29 12:51 PM

"This child of yours longs to grow
in wisdom. It is time to leave all this
and find myself again ... mirrored in you."

Sounds like a good plan to me! Nicely said.

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