A Poet's Blog: Roger N.Taber shares his thoughts & poems...

Thoughts and observations by English poet Roger N. Taber, a retired librarian and poet-novelist.- "Ethnicity, Religion, Gender, Sexuality ... these are but parts of a whole. It is the whole that counts." RNT [NB While I have no wish to create a social network, I will always reply to critical emails about my poetry. Contact: rogertab@aol.com].

About Me

Name: R. N. Taber

Location: London, United Kingdom

Sadly, a bad fall in 2012 has left me with a mobility problem, and being diagnosed with prostate cancer the same year hasn't helped, but I get out and about with my trusty walking stick as much as I can, take each day as it comes and try to keep looking on the bright(er) side of life. Many of my poems reflect the need to nurture a positive-thinking mindset whatever life throws at us.

Thursday, 2 February 2012

An Affinity with Nature

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Among all our cues we take from nature, survival has to be one of the most if not the most important.

Surely, the very least we can (all) do is to watch out for nature too?

AN AFFINITY WITH NATURE

Watch as spring lays a path into summer,

and chicks in leafy branches learn to fly

in a world out of step with Earth Mother,

carbon footprint across land, sea and sky

Watch buds open and burst into flower

closing at dusk, woken again at dawn

by the kisses and tears of Earth Mother

for each child lost, found, dying, reborn

Watch as the world slowly opens its heart

summer rest on its laurels fair and frayed,

anxious for Earth Mother to play her part,

helping restore foundations poorly laid…

Watch autumn weep and winter keep vigil

[Note: This poem first appears under the title ' Landscape of Survival' in On the Battlefields of Love by R. N. Taber, Assembly Books, 2010]

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