Poems on Earth (Help Save Our Envirnoment and Planet)

In our solar system, the world is the only place that mankind can peacefully occupy. Unfortunately, we have not treated the property well while it has been under our stewardship. Hopefully, we still have time.

Poems on Earth

Only the planet Earth allows for the peaceful habitation of humans in our solar system. For the species that inhabit it, the planet is a paradise. In the cycle of life, every species on earth has a certain place.

It’s simple to lose sight of how fortunate we are to call this area home as we go about our everyday lives, but we can all do better. To spread the word about this crucial message, we have put together this collection of Poems on Earth.

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1. A Bird Came Down the Walk

A bird came down the walk:
He did not know I saw;
He bit an angle-worm in halves and ate the fellow raw.
And then he drank a dew from a convenient grass.
And then hopped side wise to the wall to let a beetle pass.
He glanced with rapid eyes that hurried all abroad,
They looked like frightened beads, I thought;

He stirred his velvet head like one in danger;
cautious, I offered him a crumb,
And he unrolled his feathers and rowed him softer home than oars divide the ocean.
Too silver for a seam, Or butterfly, off banks of noon,Leap.
splash less, as they swim.

by Emily Dickinson

2. The Way Through The Woods

They shut the road through the woods seventy years ago.
Weather and rain have undone it again,
And now you would never know There was once a path
through the woods before they planted the trees,
It is underneath the coppice and heath,
And the thin anemones.Only the keeper sees that,
where the ring-dove broods and the badgers roll at ease,
There was once a road through the woods.

Yet, if you enter the woods of a summer evening late,
When the night-air cools on the trout-ring’d pools
Where the otter whistles his mate,
(They fear not men in the woods because they see so few),
You will hear the beat of a horse’s feet
And the swish of a skirt in the dew,
Steadily cantering through the misty solitudes.
As though they perfectly knew the old lost road through the woods.
But there is no road through the woods.

by Rudyard Kipling

3. A Minor Bird

I have wished a bird would fly away,

And not sing at my house all day;

Have clapped my hands at him from the door

When it seemed as if I could bear no more.

The fault must partly have been in me.

The bird was not to blame for his key.

And of course there must be something wrong

In wanting to silence any song.

by Robert Frost

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4. October

Is it winter again, is it cold again,
didn’t Frank just slip on the ice,
didn’t he heal? Weren’t the spring seeds planted?
didn’t the night end,
didn’t the melting ice flood the narrow gutters wasn’t my body rescued,
wasn’t it safe didn’t the scar form,
invisible above the injury, terror and cold,
didn’t they just end,
wasn’t the back garden harrowed and planted. I remember how the earth felt.

red and dense,in stiff rows, weren’t the seeds planted,
didn’t vines climb the south wall can’t hear your voice for the wind’s cries,
whistling over the bare ground. I no longer care what sound it makes when was I silenced,
when did it first seem pointless to describe that sound what it sounds like can’t change?
what it is didn’t the night end,
wasn’t the earth safe when it was planted didn’t we plant the seeds,
weren’t we necessary to the earth,
the vines, were they harvested?

by Louise Glück

5. Remember

Remember the sky that you were born under?
know each of the star’s stories.Remember the moon,
Know who she is. Remember the sun’s birth at dawn,
that is the strongest point of time.
Remember sundown and the giving away to night.
Remember your birth, how your mother struggled to give you form and breath.
You are evidence of her life, and her mother’s, and hers.
Remember your father. He is your life, as well.

Remember the earth whose skin you are:red earth,
black earth, yellow earth, white earth, brown earth, we are earth.
Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their tribes,
Their families, their histories, too. Talk to them,listen to them.
They are alive poems.Remember the wind. Remember her voice.
She knows the origin of this universe.

Remember, you are all people and all people are you.
Remember, you are this universe, and this universe is you.
Remember, all is in motion, is growing, is you.
Remember, language comes from this.

by Joy Harjo

6. Peace On Earth

The Archer is wake!
The Swan is flying!
Gold against blue
An Arrow is lying.
There is hunting in heaven
Sleep safe till tomorrow.

The Bears are abroad!
The Eagle is screaming!
Gold against blue
Their eyes are gleaming!
Sleep!
Sleep safe till tomorrow.

The Sisters lie
With their arms intertwining;
Gold against blue
Their hair is shining!
The Serpent writhes!
Orion is listening!
Gold against blue
His sword is glistening!
Sleep!
There is hunting in heaven
Sleep safe till tomorrow.

by William Carlos Williams

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7. The Earth

Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon
the remembered earth, I believe. He ought to give himself up
to a particular landscape in his experience, to look at it from
as many angles as he can, to wonder about it, to dwell upon
it.

He ought to imagine that he touches it with his hands at
every season and listens to the sounds that are made upon
it. He ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest
motions of the wind. He ought to recollect the glare of noon and
all the colors of the dawn and dusk.

For we are held by more than the force of gravity to the earth.
It is the entity from which we are sprung, and that into which
we are dissolved in time. The blood of the whole human race
is invested in it. We are moored there, rooted as surely, as
deeply as are the ancient redwoods and bristle cones.

by Navarre Scott Momaday

8. This Sweet Cold Belong

Pray to what earth does this sweet cold belong,
Which asks no duties and no conscience?
The moon goes up by leaps, her cheerful path
In some far summer stratum of the sky,
While stars with their cold shine begot her way.
The fields gleam mildly back upon the sky,
And far and near upon the leafless shrubs
The snow dust still emits a silver light.

Under the hedge, where drift banks are their screen,
The titmice now pursue their downy dreams,
As often in the sweltering summer nights
The bee doth drop asleep in the flower cup,
When evening overtakes him with his load.
By the brook sides, in the still, genial night,
The more adventurous wanderer may hear
The crystals shoot and form, and winter slow
Increase his rule by gentlest summer means.

by Henry David Thoreau

9. The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth

if I suffer at this

typewriter

think how I’d feel

among the lettuce-

pickers of Salinas?

by Charles Bukowski

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10. Peace On Earth

The Archer is wake!
The Swan is flying!
Gold against blue
An Arrow is lying.
There is hunting in heaven
Sleep safe till tomorrow.

The Bears are abroad!
The Eagle is screaming!
Gold against blue
Their eyes are gleaming!
Sleep!
Sleep safe till tomorrow.

The Sisters lie
With their arms intertwining;
Gold against blue
Their hair is shining!
The Serpent writhes!
Orion is listening!
Gold against blue
His sword is glistening!
Sleep!
There is hunting in heaven
Sleep safe till tomorrow.

by William Carlos Williams

11. My Love For You, Sweet Earth

My Love For You, Sweet Earth – Poem by Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev
Autoplay next video my love for you, sweet Earth, my mother,
I cannot hide – I do not crave
The phantom pleasures of that other,
That spectral world beyond the grave.
O spring, the blessedness of Eden
Compared to yours as nothing is!
Love’s joys you bring us all unbidden,
And golden dreams, and light, and bliss.

What rapture to drink in the balmy,
Warm air of spring, to languor wed,
And watch the clouds drift slowly, calmly
High in the blueness overhead;
To wander happily and idly
Across a field and past a stream,
To catch the scent of blooming lilac
Or chance upon a radiant dream!.

by Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev

Poems on Earth will encourage people to recognize the planet’s wellbeing. Used in a lecture, as part of a speech, or in written materials for Earth Day, the right Poems on Earth has the potential to touch the heart of an audience and create meaningful improvements in the way people see the world around them.

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Poems on Earth (Help Save Our Envirnoment and Planet)