Multi-Celebrating Earth Day in Poetry Month
April has both Poetry Month and Earth Day
Each we should celebrate everyday
Like, who even gets to choose these dates?
To time-bound celebrations for what we love always
Same goes for Mother's, Father's, Children's, all Births
Why just days for giving thanks, love, appreciation, and Earth?
So truly no need to thank Big Calendar for April
When it’s hallmarked by grassroots, not corporate staple
When on April 22, 1970, with a movement Senator Gaylord Nelson
Organized student-led teach-ins for how a healthier world can be well-won
When in 1996, the Academy of American Poets designated the month entirely
For poets and their readers, expected now with increasing April showers reliably
So of course it’s not just one month or day saved for our environment and poems
But every time you choose to save the day going forth and ongoing
Amid our unbound multi-pronged planetary crisis, the earth’s poetry can soothe
Inspiring new ways we can multi-solve toward a world everyone can choose
In a world where we’re all multi-celebrating all we love all year-round
You can hear trees breathe in figurative language as the same sounds.