02-07-2010, 06:35 PM
http://www.counterpunch.org/poems07022010.html
Another poem from my step sons uncle.I thought I would place it here.
And earth has owned me.
--Daniel Smythe
Because nature owns me I love the world.
I love the wind that blesses the oceans
and fields, I love the storms, the meadows healed
with sticks and leaves, the flowers in motion,
the grass thick with weeds. Not knowing heaven
my place is on earth with its seeds and rebirth.
For some, this is a long thought-out given:
our planet, with its equator’s girth, breath,
and eternal spin, brings out the worst
in humans. We commandeer, put demands
on her flesh, that mortal, live wound, then test
her ability to respond. The land
won’t always reinvent. Before we hand
this curse to our young, pray for a last stand.
Leonard J. Cirino is the author of twenty chapbooks and fourteen full-length collections of poetry since 1987 from numerous small presses. He lives in Springfield, Oregon, where he is retired, does home care for his 96-year-old-mother, and works full-time as a poet. His 100-page collection, Omphalos: Poems 2007, was published in spring, 2010 from Pygmy Forest Press. A 64-page selection, Tenebrion: Poems 2008, will be from Cedar Hill Publications, in 2010. His 100-page collection, The Instrument of Others, is due from Lummox Press in 2010. His full-length collection, Chinese Masters, is from March Street Press, 2009. Cirino will be the featured poet at the Outsiders’ Art Festival, Lincoln, NE, in August 2010. He can be reached at cirino7715@comcast.net.
Another poem from my step sons uncle.I thought I would place it here.
And earth has owned me.
--Daniel Smythe
Because nature owns me I love the world.
I love the wind that blesses the oceans
and fields, I love the storms, the meadows healed
with sticks and leaves, the flowers in motion,
the grass thick with weeds. Not knowing heaven
my place is on earth with its seeds and rebirth.
For some, this is a long thought-out given:
our planet, with its equator’s girth, breath,
and eternal spin, brings out the worst
in humans. We commandeer, put demands
on her flesh, that mortal, live wound, then test
her ability to respond. The land
won’t always reinvent. Before we hand
this curse to our young, pray for a last stand.
Leonard J. Cirino is the author of twenty chapbooks and fourteen full-length collections of poetry since 1987 from numerous small presses. He lives in Springfield, Oregon, where he is retired, does home care for his 96-year-old-mother, and works full-time as a poet. His 100-page collection, Omphalos: Poems 2007, was published in spring, 2010 from Pygmy Forest Press. A 64-page selection, Tenebrion: Poems 2008, will be from Cedar Hill Publications, in 2010. His 100-page collection, The Instrument of Others, is due from Lummox Press in 2010. His full-length collection, Chinese Masters, is from March Street Press, 2009. Cirino will be the featured poet at the Outsiders’ Art Festival, Lincoln, NE, in August 2010. He can be reached at cirino7715@comcast.net.
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