Moel Siabod North Wales
Pay homage
Let’s pay homage to this planet
The one we call the earth
For all the gifts it gives us
From the moment of our birth
It’s just a speck in nowhere
And does not make a claim
An atom in the darkness
No human thought can tame
It carries all our visions
The ones that live in hope
On some new bright tomorrow
Where all our cares elope
It spins without a resting
And knows we cannot see
It’s just a speck in nowhere
Of a moment that is free
Nettles
Those nettles like to quarrel
Just sparring for a fight
As they hide beneath the bushes
Just waiting for a strike
They think I have not noticed
The way that they have spread
But I’m coming with my Dutch hoe
To turn them out of bed
I’ll put them on the compost
Where they will rot away
Instead of causing conflict
Upon my skin today
I know that I should like them
Although they’re hard to love
Especially if I touch them
Without my gardening glove
Their rash it lingers ages
And makes me want to swear
Or search to find a dock leaf
Which I know I’ll find somewhere
Though butterflies they love them
I’m really not the same
As I unroot these bullies
And my garden again reclaim
Pastoral Serenade
Lazy days will soon be mine
As on the grass I will recline
I’ll feel again the earth sweet breath
And count the joys that I have left
So many summers I’ve left behind
With their own unique design
Oh what gifts are yet to come
While I dance around the sun
And linger in those lengthened days
Drinking in that magic haze
That heaven that is summer.
Thought to Ponder – “Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.” – Bell Hooks
Music on You Tube – Baby can I hold you tonight – Pavarotti & Tracy Chapman
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