Reality
Reforest the trees,
Disown the car.
We an Eden’s army
Are.
Ten billion trees,
The staff of God,
Shall rise with our
Green army’s aid.
Reforest the trees,
Disown the car.
Cool Earth’s orbit
By a star.
Reforest the trees,
Disown the car,
Build deep soils
Life will share.
Reforest the trees
Disown the car,
Mantis comes through
Stars, a stare.
Reforest the trees
Will bring about
Heaven on Earth,
Put war to rout.
Reforest the trees
Our mantra frames,
The God of Adam
Eden dreams.
Ten billion trees,
Ten billion more,
Bulwark the entire sphere!
Moments grow to eons
For the seed
Planted right here.
Lindbergh
Land like Lindbergh!
Beam the plane,
An ocean span alone
His reign.
Resilient, he’d flown
A dream
On sandwiches
And reckoning.
He stands tall.
His smile glints.
A solo flight
The story prints.
The Greeks
Hope evolves with misery,
Pandora let us know,
A resignation to the fact
The lid has let out woe.
Supplant despair with industry.
Refine hope into aim.
Pygmalion made the beauty that
He married in his name.
Torture
‘Broken on the wheel’
Just broke bones of men;
Did not gasp all cells of
Organisms or stop rain.
The wheel is responsible
For turning us to ghouls.
Arid are the yards that circum-
Scribe our modern schools.
We were meant to save life,
Not jeopardize the ark
By reading “USA Today”
And dimming down the dark.
Blur us as a species
With machines that do our work:
We were meant to apex life,
Not be a cosmic jerk.
Wheels, Too
A group of us shared on the hill
What most of us would keep:
Memories of animals alive
That dream our sleep:
Times when the rain fell,
And elders lifted up their eyes
To the lightning summer-sculpted
On cloud-purple skies.
We saw a horny toad and one
Reminded us to say
He was ‘grandpa’, come from
An ancient cornucopia:
When snow restored in winter
And streams flowed on the land
And pinon trees drew pinon jays
Down to cone-laden stands.
Some cried for present courage
To face the social will –
The freeway drones, anonymous,
The skies with carbon fill –
Each journey an iota,
But then the group let go,
And drove away in cars again,
Leaving residual.
Franklin 1
Franklin wielded a baton;
He gave life currency
By having wind take up a kite
While down below, a key
Glowed. He was transported,
And on his way to France,
Did he relax within? No.
He watched the currents flounce.
Franklin 2
Frugal as a printer,
Franklin’s stature grew
Until he entertained the French
With wine the wealth knew.
Fascination never far,
Service to the crown:
The skull of Homo sapiens
Reign of his renown.
Franklin 3
Franklin was a courtly man,
Gave out inventions free –
Warmed mankind with Franklin stoves,
Charted moving sea.
He was convinced Poor Richard’s rise
His brother could afford;
Suppressed the Philly fires and
Electrified our word.
His French could charm the ladies,
His humor has no date,
And every year an almanac
Made people feel complete.
The Tao of Casual
The hike will be in super-norm,
Not to impress, the goal;
As casual as the way we breathe
Is part of our control.
Ability to live on Earth was learned
Over a time
It took for language to exist
And poets delve its rhyme.
Institute the racial memory
Of deep reunion
With the other species:
Lord, I learn my station.
Resolve
If all it takes is study, Lord,
Then give me books to read.
Diligence shall foreordain that Earth
Retain her seed.
Intelligence shall be a place,
Right now, a destiny.
After Global Warming’s over,
Evolution’s free.
Planet Poet
Devas do direct their thoughts.
They mind the holy sun.
From just seeds they rise aloft,
Each species shaped as one.
What I think will come to be.
I share within all time
A language, and a will to face
The laws that make it rhyme.
Anthem
For discipline to draft disciples
Vigor must arouse
Quickened correspondence to ideas
I espouse.
Links then form true passages
For more than one soul.
They become a way a people
On Earth can be whole.
Put these goals in amber, then:
Reforest the trees,
Gird green Earth in soils.
May the poles refreeze.
Every insect welcome nation,
Every worm the goal
To leave trails of casements;
Love shall overrule.
As long as we orbit
And the star’s heat grow
We will shelter every species
On this world we know.
Separate, we scared ourselves.
Unified, we stand,
Around this tree, till death depart,
One circle, hand in hand.
For discipline to draft disciples
Rigor must release
Anguish at dead-ends, and
Repossess time’s fallow pace:
Time to contain radiation,
Resource solar fuel,
Time to let go evolution
And attend her school.
Draw down carbon from the sky!
Glacier peaks again.
Hallelujah with the knowledge
Earth is saved by man.