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Can Poetry Save the Earth?

04-04-2009 at 01:32:45 PM

Can Poetry Save the Earth?

04-04-2009 at 09:42:24 PM
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Re: Can Poetry Save the Earth?

Great article.
The question has many answers.
How poetic.

04-18-2009 at 12:36:17 AM

Re: Can Poetry Save the Earth?

can poetry save the earth,or
can the earth save poetry?
thats the question

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04-21-2009 at 12:33:40 AM

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Don't we wish

04-22-2009 at 11:01:34 PM

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I don't believe poetry can save the earth, however, I understand your passion. what poetry can do is influence people to make changes, for the better.

04-23-2009 at 12:03:49 AM

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It could make it little bit better place...

We responsible for the spring
For blooming of every violet
For the silent corners of Nature
To remain undisturbed and wield
Our world created for Love
Not for war not for blood not for violence
So butterfly could land
On the open hand of the child

04-23-2009 at 01:30:34 AM

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I think it could if everyone was a poet. That would be something to see ! wink

05-01-2009 at 11:56:03 AM

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ok
here is an orginization that has published.
Earth speaking poets in the 90's
http://www.eartheducation.org/
So I will email them and show them this forum.

Good luck, and may earth be with you.

John E WordSlinger Anthology-Nudged Sketches of Flighty Things-Earth 2.0
http://www.originalpoetry.com/earth-20

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05-01-2009 at 12:06:12 PM

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Yes and no, poetry continues to keep peace on earth; however, a pen and pad can't keep the earth from dying. cool cheese

05-24-2009 at 10:00:12 AM

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Poetry cant save the world......only people can. We can only hope that poetry can will help people find the strength to make the changes that are needed to save the Earth.

05-24-2009 at 12:44:05 PM

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peotry can save the earth because we can exppress our feelings blank stare

05-24-2009 at 12:46:12 PM

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Kurai

Poetry cant save the world......only people can. We can only hope that poetry can will help people find the strength to make the changes that are needed to save the Earth.
it can because it determines the people just like schools. itrs noot the school its the kids so poetry can change the world grin

05-24-2009 at 04:41:55 PM

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At this point I don't think anything can save the earth...it isn't the earth that's bad, it's the people ON earth who have destroyed it...

05-25-2009 at 02:20:31 PM

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No it can't.

Poets are nothing more than observers the poetry would continue with or without us. Not to mention that as much as I admire Poe, I would not want him as a world leader.

05-28-2009 at 08:37:52 PM

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Can poetry change the world?

Here's a short one I just wrote this afternoon after finding your site.

Bear in mind that I haven't written a poem since High School (40 years ago). And this is old school - it actually rhymes.

But if it reaches one person, it will have changed the world.

And If

And if all the wealth in the world was yours
And you had life down pat
Would that be enough, my friend?
Would you be satisfied with that?

And if all the love in the world was yours
And they all thought you a saint
And they found you without blemish
Without sin and without taint,

And if all the power in the world was yours
And you held absolute command
Of every single mortal coil
That ever walked this land,

Somewhere in some forsaken place
A starving child would raise his face
And fix his hollow eyes on you
And ask you what you mean to do...

by Glenn Meisenheimer

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05-30-2009 at 10:38:43 AM

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Love it, =

05-30-2009 at 11:42:46 AM

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Poetry was never meant to save the earth. It is one person's observation, however skewed, of his/her own universe. Poetry and art beautify the earth, but will never save it.
gmcookie, that is the most touching, relevant, poem I've read in a long time. And everyone who reads it will think the same, then go on with their lives as before. Did it change someone? Maybe, maybe not. But that was not your intention, was it? Your intention was to express yourself in the most poetic way possible. And if someone liked it and was touched by it, then you are gratified. Because that is a poet.
I have posted a poem I wrote about the frustrations of a poet and his/her inability to change the world. Maybe you all will find it relevant also.

NenaT

06-10-2009 at 02:40:50 PM

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save it from WHAT?

06-11-2009 at 12:05:06 AM

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Let us look at the question before we look at posible solutions...

save it from what? inhumanity you say? let us look at examples, and then motives and causes of inhumanity...

this could actually turn into a grand discusion, with the minds we have here....

but to start, Poetry could save us, but what can't save us? (nuclear weapons excluded) anything that is akin to the soul can save us.

06-11-2009 at 04:50:15 PM

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(You are so Ted Nugent-y)..Never mind saving the Earth, I'm having a hard enough time saving money, or saving coupons or saving my ass from being fired or bored... these kinds of questions are so delusional...no offense...If the world was all pink and sweet and "SAVED", no one would have to come up w/ poetry to translate all the BS into in the first place. Maybe you should ask if poetry can save our own little individual worlds, to which I would say "Yes" it has saved my world many times..not to mention my sanity.Down w/ cliche question "Ted" lol

Quote:
Originally Posted by WordSlinger

RUN FOR THE STARS

There�s a yellow spot on this blue rock,
and it is jetting red hot, resetting earths clock

This is the hour of untamed power
GPS stressed, take a guess
A situation for evacuation
Watch your attitude, be on your best
This is a big magnitude disrupting all DNA

This is the day we called tomorrow
Destruction and death will follow
We had warnings and signs from all sorts of pages
All of life will be sent back to the dark ages
It will be us in mass exodus

Outdoor activities are shrinking
Indoors, digital thinking
Fire beneath unleashing
Alot of heat rising and seeping
Mega-quakes, plates shake, relieving stress
Seismic waves, carving paves, this is mankind's� test
Liquid fashion, M7s, M8s, some way escape
Better off under ground, and rescued late

Fires, hysteria, running dreams
Panic, falling debris, running screams
Ruble, ruckus, doom will pluck us
Co2 admissions, see O� through it
Come on add mission
Solarize and par, run for the stars
The alarm is chirping
The earth is hurting

Now I�m talking drought
and what it�s all about
Do you think I�m lying
See I�d prefer water over diamonds
Courts, and them sorts,
had the authority to contort it
So of course,
our forts, with no torque, couldn�t govern,
so what was it meant?
So we, say me like the ant must
Solarize and par, run for the stars

Now I�m talking swarming
Locusts from global warming
Do you think scientists can stop
trillions from eating earths crop?
Danger zones will explode
The sky roads, like insect tornados
So of course,
our herds of nerds couldn�t govern,
so what was it meant?
So we, say me like the ant must
Solarize and par, run for the stars

Moon nests manifests, come on
Why are we saving the best for last?
Good God what will we, mankind, think of next
We are continuing a current leave ever since Adam and eve

Ask ourselves, how far can we go
with our aero dynamic back bones?
A modern Noah's ark
can it be our only last hope?
In vision a world far greater
Our mother ship shall I state her?
Without technologies we are helpless
Or is it also we�re trying to sell this?
Solarize and par, run for the stars

06-12-2009 at 02:09:09 PM

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Earth 11 points
whatever ya call yourselves 6

Sorry babe I don't hunt. Well be very quite, I'm hunting rabiit..
I could be a product of my enviroment. Not

Earth 11 points
whatever ya call yourselves 6

And no offense is right, no defense as well, smile
====================================
"People who believe a lot of crap are better off." Charles Bukowski

Here is what might be my favorite nature poem:

Underwater Autumn
by Richard Hugo

Now the summer perch flips twice and glides
a lateral fathom at the first cold rain,
the surface near to silver from a frosty hill.
Along the weed and grain of log he slides his tail.

Nervously the trout (his stream-toned heart
locked in the lake, his poise and nerve disgraced)
above the stirring catfish, curves in bluegill dreams
and curves beyond the sudden thrust of bass.

Surface calm and calm act mask the detonating fear,
the moving crayfish claw, the stare
of sunfish hovering above the cloud-stained sand,
a sucker nudging cans, the grinning maskinonge.

How do carp resolve the eel and terror here?
They face so many times this brown-ribbed fall of leaves
predicting weather foreign as a shark or prawn
and floating still above them in the paling sun.
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Earth 11 points
whatever ya call yourselves 6

Your up to bat, throw, run what ever you do best...
Well maybe yur right, it's the only planet with wine, lmao, whoo

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06-12-2009 at 03:50:41 PM

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Poetry like any voice can make a difference if it's not read upon by blind eyes and spoken to among deaf ears. Mankind has proven itself to be the most threatening, self indulgent, and destructive creation to set foot upon this planet. It's time for a cleansing. We rape and pillage Mother Earth stripping her of her natural resources while poisoning her lifeless soil that remains. Our divinities stare in disgust and rage at the damage and destruction we have caused. We are parasites who are eraticating every other species on the planet. We take without giving, and populate without thinking. We are a time bomb set to explode and the countdown has begun. Can Poetry Save The Earth? You're asking if mankind can save the earth. Lets ask the Watcher of the Trees.

Destruction…
Blood flows out of trees onto the Earth’s floor.
Half the rainforests have been destroyed
I know, I’m the Watcher of the Trees.

Spirit of the Leaves,
I’m the Green Man of past centuries.
Foolish race, human race,
taking more than you’re put here for.

I’m the Watcher of the Trees,
whose numbers have purpose.
Can man say the same?
Destroying the children for profit and gain.

Spirit of the Leaves,
Angel of the Canopy,
each brother downed,
one less cure found.

Can you conceive such words as these?
Soon you shall not breathe.
I’m the voice of your atrocities.
Soon you shall not breathe.

Foolish race, human race,
find your place or you'll be no more.

~ dragonfly1023

06-12-2009 at 04:00:57 PM

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dragonfly1023 has spoken, I hear more coming,,

Writing that Can Change the World
See the slow, beautiful and necessary changes your action has on the planet, the environment and the society. Good for you. Good for all of us.
Write a poem about Saving The Earth
And the work of your poems may plant a hundred trees. An hour.
For generations to come.

Poets inspire. They inspire other poets to write more poems.
They inspire people to act out the dreams described within the poem.
Dreams that might otherwise be long deferred.
Dreams that can change the planet.

Now!
And later.
Because poems last.

Earth 12 points
whatever ya call yourselves 6

Your up to bat, throw, run what ever you do best...
Well maybe yur right, it's the only planet with wine, lmao, whoo

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06-20-2009 at 05:45:05 PM

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Points for the Wordslinger

Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.

Plato (BC 427-BC 347) Greek philosopher.