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Monday, February 3, 2020

Renewal

Christine Lowther photo


Just as my heart, after trauma,
once made its way across
the frozen landscape of Siberian retreat,
melted, opened,
and learned to love again,

so, too, does Mother Earth
set to her work of healing and growth,
sending forth green shoots of hope
on a charred and blackened landscape,
growing baby trees on clearcut slopes,
trying to rid herself and her living waters
of toxins, the way our bodies
reject what would be harmful,
strengthen themselves against threat.

Everything in the wild world
wants to live.
The earth is programmed
for growth and renewal.
She has done this dance before,
the dance of life;
she will do it again.

Given the chance and some help
from those who care,
Mother Earth can renew herself once more

for everything in the wild world
wants to live.


for Brendan at Earthweal, where the topic is Renewal.
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10 comments:

  1. tonispencerFebruary 3, 2020 at 2:14 PM

    Yes! Enogh of grimness and pain. Everything on this earth wants to live. I love your poem and the hope and the renewal.

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  2. BrendanFebruary 4, 2020 at 2:30 AM

    Such an important distinction - "everything in the wild world / wants to live." Up from the wilderness of the wild soil, the dark, the unknown, the grievous, come seedlings of renewal. So we and the world are reborn. Thanks so much for this.

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  3. hedgewitchFebruary 4, 2020 at 7:41 AM

    Life is stubborn, animal and vegetable--great simile about the earth mimicking our bodies, or perhaps it should be vice versa. We need to place our faith in what lasts, what is inevitable, as well as fight the terrors and destruction. Loved this, dear Sherry.

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  4. Yvonne OsborneFebruary 4, 2020 at 8:19 AM

    I love the phrase "everything in the wild world wants to live". Well said. I shall try to pen something for this positive prompt. After all, spring is the season.

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  5. Therisa's WorldFebruary 4, 2020 at 10:21 AM

    Sherry, I want to believe this, but this time, humanity has pushed too far, for a proper and full recovery.

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  6. Linda Lee LybergFebruary 4, 2020 at 11:03 AM

    I LOVE the ending to this. Yes, everything wants to live.

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  7. Sumana RoyFebruary 5, 2020 at 1:21 AM

    "She has done this dance before,
    the dance of life;
    she will do it again."---That She Will, if needs be minus the humans. Beautiful, as always Sherry.

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  8. Rosemary Nissen-WadeFebruary 5, 2020 at 4:44 AM

    Yes, I believe the earth will renew, and wild life ... but we might not be there to see.

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  9. brudbergFebruary 5, 2020 at 12:10 PM

    I don't doubt that earth will renew itself... my question is always if there will be any place for humans then.

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