3 Perfect Poems for Climate-Shifting Spring
Climate Poems for Spring Blossoming Along Solar-Warmed Horizons
Gotcha! There’s no such thing as “Perfect,” except for you. You’re perfect.
1. “Instructions on Not Giving Up” by Ada Limón
More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out
of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s
almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving
their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate
sky of Spring rains, it’s the greening of the trees
that really gets to me.
2. ”Anthropocene Pastoral” by Catherine Pierce
In the beginning, the ending was beautiful.
Early spring everywhere, the trees furred
pink and white, lawns the sharp green
that meant new. The sky so blue it looked
manufactured. Robins. We’d heard
the cherry blossoms wouldn't blossom
this year, but what was one epic blooming
when even the desert was an explosion
of verbena? When bobcats slinked through
primroses. When coyotes slept deep in orange
poppies.
3. ”Spring Thaw” by dg nanouk okpik
A remnant conceals
things I can’t
change, a blue
glacial memory
reveals:
light’s sharp edges—
I lean.
What do you think? What poems would you add?
Happy (Meteorological) (Climate-Shifting) Spring! Here are 3 climate tools to make it easy to communicate change:
"Spring — a spontaneous reawakening — is a brave concept. It's symbolic of this moment in history. Nature has spent billions of years fine-tuning itself to make the most good of the seasonal cycles, and chose to do it this way." @EricHolthaus, https://thephoenix.earth/ipcc-summary/
