Having grown up in the shadow of the Bomb and having provided supportive care to post-Cold War generations of children and their parents (both in crisis), I have seen a lot of distrust and instability in people–individually and in communities. I have seen how the shadow of impending doom can rewrite a way that people live. This distrust and instability is not a personal issue. It is a sign and symptom of having lived in a time when the imagination can harbor not simply notions of tribal decay and destruction, but the decay and destruction of all tribes, in all places, and throughout all future time. We can wipe out everything that exists within the realm of our planet–in an instant. This changes who people are. This changes how people grow and develop. The current earth crisis is large. It looms overhead and in our homes. It is more visible and prevalent than the crisis of the Bomb. Everything we pick up and discard is a reminder that we have a problem. In many ways this crisis is more severe than the Bomb. In this crisis everyone has a button they can push to bring destruction. We have more madmen to worry about. Everyone. Everyone has an impact on global ecologic and climate issues. Here are poets' songs on the beauty of the earth, lest we forget.
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N. Thomas Johnson-Medland. For the Beauty of the Earth
For the Beauty of the Earth
Dedication
Preface
Tom’s Introduction
Glinda’s Introduction
I Write An Earth That Is Dying
Beauty in an Ark of Love
The Sun Today
River Bending
Simply Heather
A Coldness
Stones and Moss
Windworn
Have You Noticed
On The Mountain
Again
Sad Oak
Alluvial Fans
Strata
Escarpment
High Rocks
Roots
Poets I have Met
Beautiful Land
May Sarton, 1995
The Call of the Wild ( for my brother)
Sweet Memories
The Delaware
The Deer
The Eagle
The Dove
Flytrap
The Turtle
The Sunrise
The Lake
The Trees
God’s Music Everywhere
The Broken Rose
The Earth
But Still, There is Beauty
The Little Plant Speaks
The Changing Seasons
Flowers
Images of God’s Great Love
The Little Dead Pine Speaks
Untitled
Once I Was Young
Transitions
Wonderland
Home
The Boat Dock
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Poems from the CHILD-HEART About the Planet
N. Thomas Johnson-Medland
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The current earth crisis is large. It looms overhead and in our homes. It is more visible and prevalent than the crisis of THE BOMB. Everything we pick up and discard is a reminder that we have a problem. In many ways this crisis is more severe than THE BOMB. In this crisis everyone has a button they can push to bring destruction. We have more madmen to worry about. EVERYONE. Everyone has an impact on global ecologic and climate issues.
In some households, children will grow up with parents that say they do not believe there is a human impact on the earth; that there is no global climate change as a result of industry, commerce, and consumerism. This same child will go to school and have dozens of opinions on the issue pasted on the hearts and walls all around him/her. They will also have their own emotional beliefs and connections to these issues that represent their own understanding. It is complicated.
