Listening Out for Nature

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Observing nature is always an experience worth making time for, especially if we let it into our hearts, learn from it, find ways to harness its kinder side to body, mind and spirit, enjoy an intrinsic peace and tranquillity...

The video below concludes my friend Graham’s visit to the Cheddar Gorge along with a poem I wrote especially to accompany it; you will hear me read the poem over the video.

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LISTENING OUT FOR NATURE

Birdsong in the wind
making promises it cannot keep
to every flower, tree
and blade of grass, each hair
on the head of creatures great
and small

Tears in the wind
but acid rain, humankind’s gift 
to every flower, tree
and blade of grass, each hair
on the head of creatures great
great and small

Joy, too, in the wind
same birdsong busy serenading
every flower, tree
and blade of grass, each hair
on the heads of creatures great
and small

Love songs in the wind, 
composed for every flower, tree, 
and lade of grass, each hair
on the heads of creatures great
and small to take heart, 
know it will flourish in the light
of Apollo’s smile;
ageless, the tell-tale wind, 
like our pride in every flower, tree, 
and blade of grass, each hair 
on the heads of creatures great
and small exhorting us
to answer its call to keep this world 
colourful, peaceful

Birdsong in the wind, 
let fly to reassure every flower,
tree and blade of grass,
lift the heads of creatures
great and small threatened daily
with extinction

Tears in the wind,
at the passing of each season
for every flower, tree, 
and blade of grass, each hair 
on the heads of creatures great
and small

Joy, too, in the wind,
at each springtime’s returning
to nurture every flower,
tree, blade of grass, creatures
great and small counting on nature,
nature on us
  
Copyright R. N. Taber 2012