What has this photo do with the verse, Creation?Develop the verse into a poem. What is your
advocacy or message to your reader?
advocacy or message to your reader?
Creation
How wonderful is creation
when we realize in a minuscule
the universality of the simple
linked to the complex,
where every living thing is part
of life’s interrelating;
like a chain, its strength
shared by each link cooperating.
2. Old Man and Waterfall
He is old now and the cataract is but a spring,
He touches the spring. Where have all the waters gone?
Yes, he sighs with relief, his gaze takes him far away,
And there the last drops of his waterfall meet the sea;
And the sea roars in gladness, roars in a thousand cheers.
3. What makes a man?
What makes a man? Ask not someone who had gone to war,
Chores backbreaking he endured out of childhood sorrow,
Ever patient with the passing and coming of seasons;
Seasoned timber, mind steeled, only to time he yields,
To the young, to the ideal, to a beautiful world.
4. Wisdom comes with age
He who nods when old is wise and deep
Save he by the fireside asleep;
How can the sun reach the hadal depth,
Where the world is cold, where love is dearth?
Hasn’t someone a bit of sun long kept?
Come, come and save the hearth.
5. Freedom
Where the sky and the rivers flow
Under the rainbow by the sea.
Let me flow with thee;
A song I sing along with you
To where the world is free.
6. Learning outside school
Lessons you teach, they don’t find in school,
No words, nor chalk, no talking tall;
Patience, patience, who waits is not a fool,
For his fish whether big or small.
When the sun is up and down -
and up again another time.
7. Brotherhood
Now I know why there is a magic carpet that flies,
For I am witness to a basin with a child,
He made himself a boat, everything he supplied.
Then there are two, three boats, and more,
Filling the pond, the ocean, the world -
Happy children, who, remembering this tale,
Call each other brethren.
8. The man who slept for 20 years
Old Rip van Winkle I’m today,
And longer did I sleep than he;
For too long had I failed to pay
Respect to this land by the sea,
And the treaty of time and me.
9. Seed
Wake up sleeping one;
The soil is fertile, the rain has come,
The fields shall bloom To feed mankind.
Wake up, stir my life, All my intellect, my faith,
That they shall blossom for love as I serve mankind.
10. Ecology Prayer
When my days are done, let me lay down to sleep
on sweet breeze and earth in the shade of trees
I planted in youth and old; and if this were my last,
make, make others live that they carry on the torch,
while my dust falls to where new life begins –
even an atom let me be with you dear Mother Earth. ~
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