Paying Homage to Mother Earth...Earth Day 2015

It's an old Native American tradition that when you take something from the Earth, you must put something back.  Earth Day, April 22, 2015 will be a global "give back to Earth" event, as an "offering" for all the planet gives us.

Paying Homage to Mother Earth

With ear to ground upon violet carpeted splendor
flesh embracing terrestrial bosom, to feel each breath she takes
Violas breathe through my body with whispered hallowed song,
brushing the moment amidst delicate petals hypnotic lilting sway
Choral mantras from her molten heart did flow, plentifully bestrewn
across creation, for to glean the grandeur ... affirm the essence of being

With soul lobe to bedrock her feral heartbeat echoes
voices uplifted in earthen timbres intone
verses singing of true natures ardent supplications ascending flight
wellsprings upraise with the cadence a spangled starlit sky
beholden to the sweetest view of Heaven’s vast azure

With eyes wide open her open arms enfold me
springs’ presence blossoms wholly from her bowers soil
ancient spirits meld in the earth mother’s chanted joy
gathering like callow birds left fields of budding innocence
drawn into the mystic murmurations in endless blue skies

Her igneous diamond soul doth avow . . . the intimacy of the universe
these humble fingers written pleas from open palms
Beseeching prayers arouse the verve of ennobling souls
to endow creation with the faith of one love
beloved earth’s most intimate silent needs . . .

Authors note:

It is my challenge to anyone who walks this earth and are mused by all the splendor bestowed, please write something to publicly publish that pays homage to what the earth has given to you and #hash-tag #earthday to raise worldwide awareness

For other Global Earth Day information visit:  http://www.earthday.org/

Thank you,
Harlon Rivers

“PLEDGE TO PLANT – EARTH DAY, APRIL 22, 2015” Be a part of the biggest grass-root effort in history by planting a seed/tree as a “give back” to Earth.

Attribution for introduction and Earth Day information is unknown and from Google search...Provided strictly for informational  purposes 

Paying Homage to Mother Earth...Harlon Rivers © April 2015

#nature   #earth-day