Earth – Page 2 – The BeZine

WHAT OF MOTHER?

Jamie Dedes

Still living at the edge of forever

in hazy seas of hoary clouds and

from this place we crawled, oh

eons ago, out of her briny womb

to sit and sun, warming on rocks

and moving our lives to shores

roaring with sound and surf

casting its wealth of sea shells

and seaweed. Onward, inward to

further depths of earth, granite,

lava-flows and flower-decked

valleys, dancing once with bird

and bear, sharing an arborous

roof, green, gold, and welcome.

So grateful too and good at our

husbandry. All thrived. Often now

crass, careless … soulless,

offending blues-black burdens

of abuse. Maybe too thankless,

some children, de-spirited and

possibly doomed to roiling sea.

What then of this treasure:

Mother Earth.

Photo credit – Peter Griffin, Public Domain Pictures.net.

Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and popularizer of natural and space science

CARL SAGAN was the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University. He played a leading role in the American space program since its inception. He was a consultant and adviser to NASA since the 1950’s, briefed the Apollo astronauts before their flights to the Moon, and was an experimenter on theMariner, Viking, Voyager, and Galileoexpeditions to the planets. He helped solve the mysteries of the high temperatures of Venus (answer: massive greenhouse effect), the seasonal changes on Mars (answer: windblown dust), and the reddish haze of Titan (answer: complex organic molecules). MORE [The Carl Sagan Portal. This site is recommended, well worth your time.]

Carl Sagan may not be a teacher in the Buddhist sense, but he is a teacher with a wise and compassionate message. Here Sagan puts things into perspective for all human kind: