“January cold and desolate;
February dripping wet;
March wind ranges;
April changes;
Birds sing in tune
To flowers of May,
And sunny June
Brings longest day;
In scorched July
The storm-clouds fly,
Lightning-torn;
August bears corn,
September fruit;
In rough October
Earth must disrobe her;
Stars fall and shoot
In keen November;
And night is long
And cold is strong
In bleak December.”
~ Christina Rossetti
Tag: Earth
Fear
“Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.”
– Lucretius
Lucifer~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poem
Lucifer:
Here’s a brave earth to sin and suffer on….
We’ll sow it thick enough with graves as green
Or greener certes, than its knowledge-tree.
We’ll have the cypress for the tree of life,
More eminent for shadow: for the rest,
We’ll build it dark with towns and pyramids,
And temples, if it please you:—we’ll have feasts
And funerals also, merrymakes and wars,
Till blood and wine shall mix and run along
Right o’er the edges…
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “A Drama of Exile”
Pets – Anne Tyler
Earth
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
~John Keats
Humanity
1139
eagle
soaring
high
above
the
land
wondering
what
the
hell
is
wrong
with
the
people
who
inhabit
the
earth
