Here is a poem of praise I wrote about our planet, Earth 🙂
“Our World, Our Planet of Life”
By: Ciera Ouellette
A hazy band of white light
outside the night sky
holds our barred spiral galaxy
situated on a stream of stars.
Our celestial universe—
cradling planet Earth,
encompassing everything.
She gives life to all,
like a mother to her young.
The world—
created for you and me.
Made of lush land and blue water,
human and animal,
turning slowly around the fire burning sun
as a foundation for life.
O green Earth,
which bore us and sustains us.
You feel delight in my bare feet.
Breezes off the shore coast
tousle my long hair.
Waves crash onto gray colored
jetties, while brackish water
tarries down into tiny estuaries
overflowing into a deluge.
Northerly lie your rich forests,
surrounded by scents of bark,
trees, and black soil.
The lungs of the land,
a breathing entity,
purifying the air, and
providing fresh strength to all.
Pebbles, boulders
and old weathered hills
just sit
silent and still
as pleasure exists amid these pathless woods.
Earth,
with its years of bounty,
followed by drought,
famine and flood.
She corresponds to the growth,
decay and death
and renewal of human life.
Build humbly and live simply—
There is rapture here in this sublunary world,
yet it must be protected.
Ciera Ouellette 