Earthen Odes Never Grow Old (another Ode to Earth)
I'm just a kid lookin up to sky
with hopeful dreams.
Wishes, I have but one;
with will and patience
it will someday come.
For now I am just sittin
waitin for contact,
whether it be human
other or beyond.
Oh to only be intimate
with the fullbodied moon;
transcendent phosphorous-flesh,
naked and dancing,
amongst the many turned on stars.
Staring out
open-infinite-night-sky
never feeling more down to Earth
never feeling more a downer than
when feeling down about the Earth
such self indulgent pollutant:
being so sad, feeling so hopeless,
when alive on this planet,
that has survived so much.
Oh Earth, do you know the dark secrets
of this seemingly late hour?
Earth, you are my life's longest lasting survivor!
Earth, you are my my rock!
tell me, oh Earth,
on the prophets' ticking clock
what are your thoughts?
Stardust life liquified into steady foundation
great gaseous mother birthing solid body form
oh earth,
you of all will be hardest to let go,
you are the full embodiment of all
I've come to love and know.
Thank you for the soft cool mud,
the sands of your shores,
the breeze off the sea, the mountain air,
all the trees, every bee
every moment of
atmospheric unpredictability
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poem by Gregory Allen Uhan
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