EARTH DAY ~

 

Earth Day

We met like this, on this day

and our life's work together

maybe who knows has saved it,

together with so many others

whose persistence stays the worst,

the few who do what they can

is enough; the love they bear

for all the living and the faint

translucent vision of a future

filled with sharing, a future

with men no longer on the take,

filled with planetary kindness:

those hopeful few, those brave

persistent few, a tiny band

that may have saved us all.

One Day

Listen! It's all so ordinary

mostly nothing happens

quotidian they call it

then one day grey fox

grabs a rabbit so quick

right outside my window

I watch her take off with it

and then we all return

to that ordinary day

_____________________________

Clifford Burke

Being Didactic

Desert Rose Press

2025

KEITH LAMPE ~

Building a new woods hut under the ash trees and white pines

each day, every day, I thought of Keith Lampe, a troubadour

for Mother Earth heralding back to the 1960s.

K E I T H      L A M P E

( Ponderosa Pine )

EARTH DAY ~

EarthRise,

the 1968 The Last Whole Earth Catalog

described this image as

"The famous Apollo 8 picture of

EarthRise over the moon."