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Posted on February 17, 2007
Filed Under Deep ecology, Ecological hope, Environmental disasters, Earth spirituality, Ecology of war and peace, Inspiration and reflection
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Not news today, just a poem from Denise Levertov:
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It Should Be Visible
If from Space not only sapphire continents,
swirling oceans, were visible, but the wars —
like bonfires, wildfires, forest conflagrations,
flame and smoky smoulder — the Earth would seem
a bitter pomander ball bristling with poison cloves.
And each war fuelled with weapons: it should be visible
that great sums of money have been exchanged,
great profits made, workers gainfully employed
to construct destruction, national economies distorted
so that these fires, these wars, may burn
and consume the joys of this one planet
which, seen from outside its transparent tender shell,
is so serene, so fortunate, with its water, air
and myriad forms of ‘life that wants to live.’
It should be visible that this bluegreen globe
suffers a canker which is devouring it.
From: Sands of the Well, New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York, 1994, 1995, 1996. Copyright by Denise Levertov
Photo credit: A View of Earth from Saturn, Cassini space craft, NASA Earth Observatory
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