Earth
Oh! I have
slipped the surly bonds of earth and saw
she was
small, light blue, and so touchingly alone. It suddenly struck me, that tiny pea,
pretty and blue, was the Earth.
Look around at this world,
how perfectly it's made.
Flowers can't move, yet the insects come
and spread their pollen.
Trees can't move, but birds and animals
eat their fruit and carry their seeds far and wide.
And forget
not that the earth delights
to feel your
bare feet and the winds
long to play with your hair.
Our planet is a glimpse of divinity.
Rocks pray, pebbles and boulders
and old weathered hills. They are still and silent,
and those are two important ways to pray.
Earth's crammed with heaven...
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.
I used a compilation of quotes and poems by:
John
Gillespie Magee, Nahoko Uehashi, Kahlil Gibran, Neil Armstrong, Douglas Wood, Edgar
Mitchell, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Lovely!
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