Earth Day

photo: pixabay.com

We live here together
     sharing space,
  each one of us
unspeakably beautiful,
    the Earth beautiful
  beyond words
under the beauty of the Sun,
the Moon, and blinking stars

We have our rhythms
     and our ways of moving:
some of us stand still
others swim, still others fly,
crawl or run, or climb high,
or dig  deep down

We make sounds
   each one unique:
we squeek and baa, and  meow, and chirp
and bark, we moo and neigh, and croak;
some of us are mute
but find their way to say something
without words, while others
use words
       to speak

We breathe with oxygen or carbon dioxide
we need each other's outbreath
           to breathe in

There are seasons
with their colours and peculiar weather,
     days and nights
ever changing places

Love to you, Earth, on your day, love
to all the creatures for whom you are home:

to trees and herbs, grasshoppers in the grass,
flowers and weeds alike, fish in the seas,
camels on the deserts, lizards, bats
and butterflies, to elephants and bees,
hummingbirds and squirrels,
to beans and apricots,
to bears and ants
and berries

hugs to every type of landscape
on your surface,
kisses to the clouds

We're all one

holding hands and paws
and wings and fins, and tails,
and leaves, and boughs

not only for one day