“The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart” —TS Eliot

Notes from a Climate Victory Garden by Louise Maher-Johnson

Reject: Fossil fuel-based pesticides, plastics, and propaganda.

Rethink: Healthy ecosystems and economies for all life.

Relocalize: Slow food, slow lifestyles, and slow economies.

Rekindle: Simple and good, nature and nurture, feeling over thinking.

Refeel: Kinship with pivoting sunflowers and starry fireflies.

Revive: Wildness, woodlands, wetlands, wildlife, waterways.

From the American Academy of Poet’s Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize:

Future History of Earth’s Birds by Amie Whittemore

Dawn’s chorus is a peace-making operation.
The birds with the biggest eyes sing first.
Thus light
is the first part of song.

The Sea / Is Sacred Still by Andrew Calis

Perhaps you’ll stand with me at the shore,
the sky now darkening, watching
the waves eat back the blueblack dunes,
shadowhills of sand, watching each wavecrash
reverberate, a drum that sounded
centuries ago, each crash a spoon scoop
more of sand, a cat’s rough tongue scraping
land back to waves, thinking, how long
until the world is sea again?

A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem by Rachel Dillon

but in this poem nothing dies.

Alone in the poem, I make myself
brave. No—I show brave
to my body, take both to the ocean.

Come hurricane, come rip current,
come toxic algal bloom.

Two Ways by Camille Dungy

Goodbye spring and hello summer.

Hello migraine. Hello allergies. In the middle, or maybe

the beginning of the American Century, nurseries began, almost

exclusively, to breed male trees. Females bear fruit, leave stains

on sidewalks. City planners have no time for messy females.

Now the air is puffed thick with male trees’ pollen.

Hello allergies. One machine stops and another begins. Still,

all those fruitless trees drop their leaves in the fall.

A Single Wool Blanket by Jane Hirshfield

Betrothed, bewildered mammals,

beheld & beholding, bequeathed of existence.

Invitation by Ron C. Moss

record heat

a soon-to-be-mum

backs into the waves

spell for another day on earth by adrienne maree brown

some of us are fighting yet
for you, our beloved
some of us
we celebrate you
every single day

Go to the Limits of Your Longing by Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Joanna Macy)

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.

Just keep going. No feeling is final.

Set the Garden on Fire by Chen Chen

Trees with arms free, flaming
into apple, peach, pear—every imaginable,
edible fire.

Come friend, neighbor,
you, come set the garden on fire
with all our hard-earned years, tender labor
of being here, ceaseless & volcanic
making of being here, together.

National Forest by Alison Hawthorne Deming

She cares about the sunrise, dandelions,

and PCBs. She embraces whatever

we give her—blood, bone, rust

become her. She invented us

to do the work the word “care” implies,

invented us to invent words,

the thicket of endless possibilities

so death does not get the last word,

so groan and hiss could be accompanied

by our chatter, dirge, thesis, and psalm.

Anthropocenic by Jake Skeets

: when water undresses into tar sands
and to one long tune acacia trees dance some
as in alder reach
anything is worth the rain

Afternoon still-life, Huy Tưởng, translated from the Vietnamese by Phương Anh

let’s go home, dear
the evening breaks the shadow under the rain
trees & leaves
whistle green
mountains & forests
so magnificent.tomorrow

This Too Shall Pass, Kim Addonizio

Mr. Chairman Takes His Leave, Rosemary Catacalos

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New Years

The Year, Chen Chen

The New Decade, Hieu Minh Nguyen

For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet, Joy Harjo

Letter to GC, Dana Levin

Burning the Old Year, Naomi Shihab Nye

To the New Year, W. S. Merwin

New Years Eve

New Year’s Eve, D.H. Lawrence

Auld Lang Syne, Robert Burns

Duet, Lisa Russ Spaar

In Memoriam, [Ring out, wild bells], Alfred, Lord Tennyson

New Years Day

New Year’s Day, Kim Addonizio

Counting, this New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain to Me, Jane Hirshfield

From “Elegy in Joy”, Muriel Rukeyser

Everything is Exactly the Same as it Was the Day Before, Ina Cariño

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Bob’s Promise

It Was Laura by Harriet Hayward

The Woodsman’s Chant

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Poems Inspired by Twin Peaks

Poems Giving Twin Peaks

For It Felt Like Power by Carl Phillips

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3 Perfect Poems for June

1. “June” by Mag Gabbert, from SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS

2. “June” by Alex Dimitrov, from Love and Other Poems

3. “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks

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A Gardenful of (Late-Blooming) Perfect Poems for Spring

• Sitting River Meditation by Brian Teare

• Spring Thaw by dg nanouk okpik

• Materials for a Gravestone Rubbing by Matthew Wimberley

• Is Not (Don’t Interrupt the Sorrow) by Cyrus Cassells

• The Lives of the Saints by Julia B. Levine

• ​​I Go Back to Myself, April 2014 by Destiny O. Birdsong

• Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode by Airea D. Matthews

• Chickens by Kate Gale - Poems

• Between Fulmination and Adoration by Lois P. Jones

• Bird Saver by Alexandria Peary

• Sonnet branches by Alexandria Peary

• Remembering by Dana Naone Hall

• once the magnolia has blossomed by Ed Roberson

• Late Spring by W.S. Merwin

• somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond by E. E. Cummings

• Night Needs No Stars by Youmna Chlala

• jersey fems at the philly zoo by Cyrée Jarelle Johnson

• Unto Ourselves: to See What’s There by Forrest Gander

• In the Meantime by Max Garland

• Brood by Donika Kelly

• Eating Wild Carrots with My Brothers on the Mesa by Jake Skeets

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Gotcha! There’s no such thing as “Perfect,” except for you. You’re perfect.

1. “The Raincoat” by Ada Limón

My god,
I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her
raincoat thinking it was somehow a marvel
that I never got wet.

2. “100% Mom” by Jane Muschenetz

3. Take your pick of poems sourced from the Prison Journalism Project: For Mother’s Day, 6 Stories and Poems From Incarcerated Writers

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Okay so here are more bonus perfect poems on Mothers, as these words are as infinite as a Mother’s love:

From Ron Padgett:

From Ursula K. Le Guin:

DYK? “Mother’s Day” was invented in Grafton, West Virginia. Here’s a poem by Matt Mitchell from “VAMPIRE BURRITO” inspired by the fact:

“The Layanard” by Billy Collins:

Finally, from Maggie Smith: “Good Bones”

EVEN MORE: collected from the American Academy of Poets

Here’s a bonus poem from me, a Sonnet from a round-up of them here

Sonnet to Mother at the Labor Strike, Saying —

Sonnet to Mother at the Labor Strike, Saying —

Thirsty? Want a snack? Keep going. She’s giving everything.
                                                     Checking-in and up, fighting on the line for fair contracts,
                                                     child strapped on her back. Onward organizing, encouraging,
leading new chants between nourishing. She acts

                                                     bold as fire. She's SO tired. Raging at this ridiculousness fuels
                                                     standing-up, waves of workers stomping, criss-crossing chants
rising in matrices of marching against elite aims,
                                                     fighting wage theft, against slave wages, union busts.
                                                     
                                                     But it’s not only for coordinating crowds for contract renegotiation,
not only leading and caring and carrying
                                                     a kid, fellow workers, the world, calls against injustice and exploitation,                                                     
                                                     but also all the labor that is fighting for labor whirling into burnout, naturally wearying—

More Mothers come forward, consoling:
                                                     
                                                     Thirsty? Want a snack? Some air? Rest now, and we’ll keep going.

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5 Perfect Poems for Mothers Day

1. “My Mama moved among the days” by Lucille Clifton

My Mama moved among the days

like a dreamwalker in a field;

2. “The Blue Dress” by Saeed Jones

Her blue dress is a silk train is a river

is water seeps into the cobblestone streets of my sleep, is still raining

3. “The courage that my mother had” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

The courage that my mother had

Went with her, and is with her still:

Rock from New England quarried;

Now granite in a granite hill.

4. ”Dear Mama (4)” by Wanda Coleman

when did we become friends?

it happened so gradual i didn't notice

maybe i had to get my run out first

take a big bite of the honky world and choke on it

maybe that's what has to happen with some uppity youngsters

if it happens at all

5. “Mother's Day” by David Young

It burns there in the past, beyond my reach,

a modest lamp.

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Gotcha! There’s no such thing as “Perfect,” except for you. You’re perfect.

1. “May-Flower” by Emily Dickinson

Pink, small, and punctual,
Aromatic, low,
Covert in April,
Candid in May,

Dear to the moss,
Known by the knoll,
Next to the robin
In every human soul.

Bold little beauty,
Bedecked with thee,
Nature forswears
Antiquity.

2. “May” by Alex Dimitrov

3. “Late Spring” by Victoria Chang from “The Trees Witness Everything”

Does spring start grieving
in April or May? Once each
spring, the girl appears
in the white house behind mine.
The window opens.
The girl paces, phone to ear.
One day I look up,
the girl is gone, window closed,
and I go back to dying.

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Gotcha! There’s no such thing as “Perfect,” except for you. You’re perfect.

1. “Rain Fugue” by Jessie Redmon Fauset

Pattering, wistful showers of Spring

Set me to remembering

Far-off times and lovers too,

Gentle joys and heart-break rue,—

Memories I’d as lief forget,

Were not oblivion sadder yet.

Ah! you twist my mind with pain,

Wistful, whispering April rain!

2. “trick of the tongue” by Alex Jane Cope in The Rumpus

See there you go speaking
to the salamander
in my throat
again

slick heat in the near rain.

3. “Snail-Picking” by Onyedikachi Chinedu

The weatherman reports rain

to a crew of snail-pickers through an old TV.

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3 Perfect EV Poems

1. “Pink Tesla” by Alex Dimitrov

So that’s who I was every day. 

I was solar-powered baby. 

I was electric.

Good for the environment.

Good for the taking. 

Just an all-around 

very good American bitch.

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Pink Tesla

Pink Tesla Three boys. White shirts. Black jeans. Pink Tesla. If I wanted summer I could smell the sweat on the back of their necks. Crush a pill and slip it in gin. Be blessed by a body on Collins with tattoos of Jesus and Mary up to the beard…

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2. ”Sapeurs and Cobalt” by Rodrigo Toscano

3. ”Maria and Oceanus” by Erin Coughlin Hollowell

battery of wind   |   car sliding toward the
ditch   |   phantom in the left hemisphere   |   blood
down wrong   |   an erase   |   drumbeat   |  rip along
the seam   |   drumbeat   |    landslide and shatter   |   oh
drumbeat   |   how you became ashes when we
weren’t there   |   silence   |   silence   |  silence   |   silence   ||

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BONUS Poem:

“Fresh Ideas” by Mark Graham

The air we breathe in cities

Leaves much to be desired

To ditch the dirty diesel cars

Electric is required

We long ago banned burning coal

To stop the air from stinking

But now we need some new ideas

Let’s call it blue sky thinking

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5 Perfect Poems to Celebrate Earth Day

1. "Living On Earth" by Alex Dimitrov

Where would you find love if not on the Earth?

As if we should be permitted elsewhere.

As if we understand our own wars,

our reasons for fleeing, forgetting—

the history we do not allow ourselves to imagine

and the lives we refuse to know,

which are often our own. I think of you here,

where you haven’t been in years.

There’s a flaw in the wood of the door

or my own madness that welcomes the wind

although it is summer, although I am winter.

2. “Origin of Planets” by Jennifer Foerster

We will walk the trail
until it turns to sand
and wait at the spit’s edge, listening
to the breakers, the seagulls
as they chatter their twilight preparations.

What we won’t understand
about the sound of the sea is no different
than the origin of planets

or the wind’s crystalline structures
irreversibly changing.

The albatross drags her parachute
over the earth’s gaping mouth.

3. “Climate” by Meghann Plunkett

Now I understand my childhood
            home. Releasing shingle after shingle
                        into the brutal air. Our front door 
            torn and flat in the yard. Violent 
gusts whipping through the marshes—
            the back of your hand. 
                        Of what I have unlearned
            this was the hardest. 

4. “Incremental Change” by Alish Hopper

Plants are music. Music is music, too. A bridge is music, and not only because it sways. A bridge has teeth. I like that though—don’t be too gentle with me. The German word for “always,” more like, “eternally.” Got two in my pocket, give away three. A cult, a conundrum, a cul de sac; into faith, and out again. Where everyone says they want to move to, but don’t, because sooner or later, you’ll lose your shirt. As if politics were not laundry. Flour, soda, eggs—what rises. The other end, the part that gets forgotten, soft and pink as an eraser. I walk into a room, I walk out of a room; the mirror catches me. The mirror tells, but who is listening? A strike, a march, a protest. Like a message, with a bouquet

left by the door.

5. “Notes from a Climate Victory Garden” by Louise Maher-Johnson

Remember: Everything is connected.

               Everyone lives downstream and downwind.

Reimagine: Deep conservation, cooperation, and community.

Rebalance: Nature with nature. Mimic her. Sense her. Be her.

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☀️🌸🚴🏾‍♀️🌞🌷 extend your PM commutes / make after-work plans

Tuesday’s stunning: solar-powered / sunny, even warmer than Monday,

with even gentler winds. The warming vibes are pouring through

Southern winds streaming-in. Estimated thermodynamics see

the warmth at least 1.5x more likely due to fossil-fueled climate

disruption; expected thermodynamics see the warmth staying with us

through the rest of our week, bringing Tuesday’s Lows

overnight only into the comfortably mild mid-50s-to-60s°F.

• 🌱 Pollen: High

• 🫁 Air Quality: Good/Moderate

• 🌇 Solar Index: 8.8 Photovoltaic Sunny

• 🌐 DC Climate Shift Index: 1 (Fossil-fueled climate-conditions at least 1.5x more likely)

— Adam Powers

☀️🌸🚴🏾‍♀️🌞🌷 FORECAST AFFIRMATION

      You deserve Mondays like this,

Enjoyable, sunny, scampering temps,

Light-dappled, & breeze-kissed.

      You (World) who change/resist.

Even if—morning dawns, like a missed

Bus on an early commute, anxious,

      You clean energize & electrify,

Chatty with winds up-to 25 mph.

In the way small-talk functions, like

      You, open, to the sky accepting

An invitation like florals renew Spring

Melting. Warmth against early crisp,

      You air as song into afternoon rising

With birds chirping & blooms flirting,

Forgiven for HIGH pollen, & starting.

      You warm, horizon, & unfold reminders

Like blossoms, giving, into your week.

Evening commute solace-generous, inspiring

      You, too. Be so generous. With Spring (Hope).

— Adam Powers

Wednesday’s giving renewable energy. Gorgeous

warmth soaring above 80s°F Highs (solar-powered

like DC reigning #1 supreme for solar per sq mile),

as air flows do a dance tugging corners of clouds

towards our area from a central-US storm system.

Layers shake-off, shorter-sleeves sprout, & parks

buzz & bustle with bikes & tykes & arms waving

into afternoon picking up like breezes sometime

gust. Altogether— feels like flirting with Summer.

Sunny-winks & airy-blushes— sans humidity. It’s

giving moments of serene serendipity. Spring-shifts,

waxing 70s°F Lows like the moonlit evening. Reflecting

☀️🌬️🌷🌤🌔 the movement, a power we’re generating.

• 🌱 Pollen: Chart-Topping High

• 🫁 Air Quality: Good/Moderate

• 🌇 Solar Index: 8.6 Good Solar Vibes

• 🌐 Climate Index: 1 (Fossil fueled climate-conditions at least 1.5x more likely)

— Adam Powers

"Singing like the larks over the plowed fields,
Flashing like a star out of the twilight;
Youth with its insupportable sweetness,
Its fierce necessity,
Its sharp desire,
Singing and singing,
Out of the lips of silence,
Out of the earthy dusk."

— Quoted from "Prairie Spring" by Willa Cather

Ready for rain & electric horizons. Thursday’s jilted skies sit as disturbed as the rest of us with this warmth — enjoying every speck still, and throughout, converging to plan our way through the end of the fossil fueled era. Through Thursday, pressure clashes in the atmosphere — where bouts of warm air lying over the DMV tussle with chill Northwestern breezes carrying more cool air. First bringing scattered rain and thunderstorm potential with possible damaging winds, and then setting the table with cooler air temperatures and possibly more rain overnight Thursday. Highs 70-80s°F  / Lows upper-40s°F.

• 🌱 Pollen: High

• 🫁 Air Quality: Good

• 🌇 Solar Index: 6.2 Marbled Skies

• 🌐 Climate Index: 1 (Fossil fueled climate-conditions at least 1.5x more likely)

— Adam Powers

"April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain."

—Quoted from "The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot

We are heading into a warming trend for the rest of the week. High temperatures will be in the mid 70s on Tuesday but then will climb into the 80s Wednesday through Friday. We see mostly sunny skies each day.

— Megan Montero filling in for Adam Powers

🌤 Wednesday awakens with DC

 beautiful: bright skies, cloud-

drift dissappearing by breezy

West-teeming wind vibes, &

sun-spreading Spring with a

🌇 Solar Index 8.2— Mostly Solar.

Temperatures look to rise to short-

sleeved warm upper-80s°F Highs,

with wind-pinned 50s°F Lows, mild.

🫁 Air Quality looks Good/Moderate

(primarily particulates). The breeze,

buzzing & bustling as the rest of us,

may sometimes gust 25-mph. Air’s

brimming with birdsong & 🌱 pollen,

also at a chart-topping High. Expect

lovely days chirping ahead. In spades

cutting earth & turf replanting early

🌷 blooming bulbs for another chance

to dance between the ground & clear

night sky, under waning-moon-light.

Solar-scampering blissful warmth springs to near 90°F with gently-breathing breezes

☀️🐦🚴🏿‍♀️🌷 STUNNING DC WEDNESDAY SONNET

Beautiful “I hear you” sky shines, warming

to the tune of the transition track between

birdsong & sunrise. Spring-air-charming

you— even if you’ve heard this one green

fable before: the forecast. Sounds STUNNING

(in both allergy-paralyzing pollen high/rising

& gorgeous sun-rooted blue skies running)

the way DC sounds mixtape together comprising

multiple mixes into an alliterative assonance

Aprilling a trilling song thrillingly long. For you

to tune-in & take part. Wednesday is adamant,

airy, yet gentle. Horizon shining between warm blue

worlds sounding possibility amid & within this crucible,

mixing a tape for you saying “I’m here for you” Beautiful.

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“I got saved by the beauty of the world.” — Mary Oliver in conversation with Krista Tippett for OnBeing

5 Mary Oliver Poems to Save You With the Beauty of the World

1. Why I Wake Early

Hello, sun in my face.
Hello, you who make the morning
and spread it over the fields
and into the faces of the tulips
and the nodding morning glories,
and into the windows of, even, the
miserable and crotchety–

best preacher that ever was,
dear star, that just happens
to be where you are in the universe
to keep us from ever-darkness,
to ease us with warm touching,
to hold us in the great hands of light–
good morning, good morning, good morning.

Watch, now, how I start the day
in happiness, in kindness.

2. Loneliness

I too have known loneliness.
I too have known what it is to feel
misunderstood,
rejected, and suddenly
not at all beautiful.
Oh, mother earth,
your comfort is great, your arms
never withhold.
It has saved my life to know this.
Your rivers flowing, your roses opening in the
morning.
Oh, motions of tenderness!

3. Wild Geese

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting—
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

4. Sleeping in the Forest

I thought the earth
remembered me, she
took me back so tenderly, arranging
her dark skirts, her pockets
full of lichens and seeds. I slept
as never before, a stone
on the riverbed, nothing
between me and the white fire of the stars
but my thoughts, and they floated
light as moths among the branches
of the perfect trees. All night
I heard the small kingdoms breathing
around me, the insects, and the birds
who do their work in the darkness. All night
I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling
with a luminous doom. By morning
I had vanished at least a dozen times
into something better.

5. Poem of the One World

This morning
the beautiful white heron
was floating along above the water

and then into the sky of this
the one world
we all belong to

where everything
sooner or later
is a part of everything else

which thought made me feel
for a little while
quite beautiful myself.

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“I got saved by the beauty of the world.” — Mary Oliver in conversation with Krista Tippett for OnBeing

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3 Magical Planet Poems for Earth Month

Take a break from the hustle and bustle of your day and immerse yourself in the beauty of our planet with these three magical planet poems. Perfect for Earth Month or any time you need to reconnect with nature. 3 Magical Planet Poems for Earth Month…

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3 Magical Planet Poems for Earth Month

1.”ON ANOTHER PANEL ABOUT CLIMATE, THEY ASK ME TO SELL THE FUTURE AND ALL I’VE GOT IS A LOVE POEM” Written and read by Ayisha Siddiqa

What if the future is soft and revolution is so kind that there is no end to us in sight.

Whole cities breathe and bad luck is bested by a promise to the leaves.

To withstand your own end is difficult.

The future frolics about, promised to no one, as is her right.

2. The Peace of Wild Things, Written and read by Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me

and I wake in the night at the least sound

in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,

I go and lie down where the wood drake

rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.

I come into the peace of wild things

who do not tax their lives with forethought

of grief. I come into the presence of still water.

And I feel above me the day-blind stars

waiting with their light. For a time

I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

3.“Talking About New Orleans” Written by Jayne Cortez

Is this freedom   is this global warming   is this the new identity
me riding on a refrigerator through contaminated debris
talking to no one in particular
about a storm that became a hurricane
& a hurricane that got violent and started
eyeballing & whistling & stretching toward
a category three domination that caught me in
                          the numbness of my own consciousness

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BONUS: Six poems that celebrate magic acts of living

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10 Inspiring Climate Change Poems to Take Action

Discover 10 inspiring climate change poems that motivate you to take action towards a greener world. Read now and make a difference. 10 Inspiring Climate Change Poems to Take Action Climate poetry can help distill reflections of our interconnected complex ecological crises into expressions of art that emphasize the urgency and significance of facing them …

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3 Perfect Poems for Celebrating Earth Month

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1. “Little Lion Face” by May Swenson

lover, hot light.

Gold corona, widen to sky.

I hold you lion in my eye

sunup until night.

2. “Advice to a Prophet” by Richard Wilbur

Ask us, ask us whether with the worldless rose

Our hearts shall fail us; come demanding

Whether there shall be lofty or long standing

When the bronze annals of the oak-tree close.

3. “In April” by James Hearst

This I saw on an April day:

Warm rain spilt from a sun-lined cloud,

A sky-flung wave of gold at evening,

And a cock pheasant treading a dusty path

Shy and proud.

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3 Perfect Poems for April

Gotcha! There’s no such thing as “Perfect,” except for you. You’re perfect…

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10 Inspiring Climate Change Poems to Take Action

Discover 10 inspiring climate change poems that motivate you to take action towards a greener world. Read now and make a difference. 10 Inspiring Climate Change Poems to Take Action Climate poetry can help distill reflections of our interconnected complex ecological crises into expressions of art that emphasize the urgency and significance of facing them …

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10 Inspiring Climate Change Poems to Take Action

Climate poetry can help distill reflections of our interconnected complex ecological crises into expressions of art that emphasize the urgency and significance of facing them together with active hope. Here are ten inspiring climate poems to take action:

1. "Atlas" by Terisa Siagatonu

2. "The Low Road" by Marge Piercy

3. "Self-Help" by Charles Bernstein

4. "Love Letter to the Milky Way" by Drew Dellinger

5. "the earth is a living thing" by Lucille Clifton

6. "An Earth Song" by Langston Hughes

7. "Love in a Time of Climate Change" by Craig Santos Perez

8. "14 Love Songs" by Elizabeth Jacobson

9. "Dawn Revisited" by Rita Dove

10. "Map” by Linda Hogan

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These inspiring climate change poems show the power of art to inspire action and make a difference. Take a moment to reflect on their messages and let them motivate you to take action for a sustainable future.

Let these poets and their work inspire you to take action to honor the past, present, and future of our planet.

Bonus Climate Poetry Resources:

• Poets.Org Poems about Climate Change

• 10 Poems About Climate Change To Read Right Now

1. "Earthrise" by Amanda Gorman

2. “Homesick: A Plea For Our Planet” by Andrea Gibson

3. “A Love Poem to Our Earth” by Lindi Nolte

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3 Perfect Playlists for Celebrating Earth Month

“The earth has its music for those who will listen.” ― George Santayana 1. Songs for the Climate Emergency…

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