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Green Poems for Poetry Month!
Not only is April Earth Month, it's also National Poetry Month. to celebrate, here are a few of my favorite green-minded poems:
The first is painted on my daughter's wall and is our family mantra:
Hurt No Living Thing
Hurt no living thing:
Ladybird, nor butterfly,
Nor moth with dusty wind,
Nor cricket chirping cheerily,
Nor grasshopper so light of leap,
Nor dancing gnat, nor beetle fat,
Nor harmless worms that creep.
-Christina Rossetti
The second perfectly sums up my feelings about plastic, especially plastic toys!
A Prayer for a Carpenter
About most subjects
I am quite elastic,
But I cannot stand
A world of plastic.
Plastic flowers, plastic tables,
Plastic window, plastic door,
Plastic, plastic,
I abhor.
When I die,
And if I'm good,
I pray that heaven
be built of wood.
-Louis Phillips
The third is typical, brilliantly witty Ogden Nash:
Song Of the Open Road
I think that I shall never see,
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-Odgen Nash
Do you have a favorite poem that celebrates the earth? Leave a comment and tell me about it!
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