Hey Humans! It’s all on you! I can’t fix it, I don’t drive a car You can stop wrecking things! Please stop it now! Ice is still melting My home’s half gone! Poems by group: Earth appreciation poems Climate action poems √ more …
Penguin – Hey Humans Read More »
I’ve been thinking a long long time Still can’t find the answer Why can’t humans stop wrecking the air and everything else we all need? Link to larger image for printing as signs Poems by group: Earth appreciation poems Climate action poems √ more …
Gorilla’s been thinking Read More »
Took more than twenty years, but he drank himself to deathSpilling out the sweetest songs of love and roads and dirtTownes, a child of southern oilDad bought him a guitarEyes closed, he started singingTouch a million hearts Chose a life of station wagonsWriting songs to pay the wayDidn’t travel far from TexasWherever he was, he was
Townes Van Zandt – appreciation Read More »
The sound of the suburbs, not just bird songIt’s lawnmowers, wood chippers, chainsaws and weed trimmersPeace isn’t peace in a noisy back yardStill, it’s nice that someone plants flowers
Chainsaws and lawnmowers Read More »
A thousand kids in his high school classTen thousand more in the countyAll the same age, all the same placeAll of them looking at life with an eye It went pretty good for some, he sawSports and jobs and husband and wivesOthers are happy with the sidewalks they findA few got lucky. A few more died Some
Beautiful suffering, told in songBlaze Foley and old John PrineSing of life and love and longingHere on Indian Land If only we could only flyIf time could speak her mindin the land of loving huntersSounds upon the wind Boots and barefoot, feel the landSing the truth, joy and painLet it carry on the wingsthat follow every friend
Boots and a guitar Read More »
Rocks, roots, water and leavesAll stopped by for a whileHere in a dry bed sycamore creekSome will be gone tomorrow Rocks, roots, water and timeLive and scrape at different speedsTime is steadyRocks resistWater and leaves keep changing places People and fishand cattle and squirrelsEach gets just a taste of the worldEvery river and snowflake and cityLoaded with
Sycamore creek bed Read More »
We’ve got our knee on the planet’s neckPull back, pull back, let her breatheWater and air, all choked by meddlingWho do we think we are? Make America green again Plenty for all, with no more dustbowls Live our lives so we don’t kill the world Seems like an obvious choice Oil man says it’s not his
It’s hard to believe it can all keep goingThe numbers, the greed and fearToo many people on one small planetBringing our Earth to broken knees Maybe we’ve been in trouble beforeMaybe we came through cleanIf we don’t do it rightwhile we still have our eyes openThings can turn hot, and very mean Death by heat is a