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Ancestry

“Just as I suspected, my great great grandfather was a monarch butterfly. Much of who I am is still wriggling under a stone.”
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Song for Species

A Poem in Honor of Endangered Species Day

If our winged, scaled, and shelled relatives could speak with us, what might they say? On Endangered Species Day, we share from our archive this original poem by our guiding teacher Mark Coleman.
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Earthrise—the rising Earth greeted the Apollo 8 astronauts on December 24, 1968 as they came from behind the Moon after the fourth nearside orbit. © NASA from Unsplash
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Only This World

Read for a wide and loving embrace of Earth, from its mountains to meadows, frozen ponds to slender grass. In this poem, Rosemerry also dares to reach for hope.
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Incarnating

Of all the planets on which you could experience life, Earth may be the most trying. Poet Carolyn Chilton meditates on how the deep breath may make living here a little easier.
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Tears

How do you hold your grief with the Earth? Ten-year-old poet Ivy Wade holds her grief with the flowing river and the howling wind.
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Originally published by NASA in 1990, "the Pale Blue Dot" is one of the most iconic images taken by NASA's Voyager mission. Planet Earth is visible as a bright speck within the sunbeam just right of center and appears softly blue. ©
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Together

“All it takes... is a photo of earth from space... and I’m stunned again, how much we are in this together.” Breathe in, breathe out, this poem by Rosemerry.
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Election

What are you voting for? Alfred K. LaMotte casts his vote for the cry of a loon, his grandfather’s bones, and the beetles that feed now with a poem that rings as a piercing reminder of the stakes beyond the self.
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May Morning

In honour of Earth Day 2024, we share this exquisite poem reminding us that we utterly belong to this world, its beauty and its losses.
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What It All Comes Down To

Amidst eco/social crises, and for this ever widening sense of self, Carolyn Chilton Casas invites us to both stay connected and let go.
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Coming Together

For everyone who aches for peace, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer shares this poem.
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