I LOVE THIS WHOLE WORK BUT IT'S THE FIFTH STANZA THAT REALLY TOUCHED ME. INDEED, 'ALL' CREATION DOES EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS CREATED TO DO...IGNITES THE GRAND POSSIBILITY OF A RESOUNDING TRUTH - SURELY, THERE'S SOMEBODY BIGGER THAN YOU OR I. THANKS FOR SHARING, RON. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATIONS.

Diversity! What a beautiful poem and so very true! Mankind can continue with their various infrastructures to enhance life's enterprises but at the end of the day, Nature will continue to exist in valleys highs and lows. Oh, the beauty of it all! Such a wonderful splendor! It's the way God intended for it to be. Your poem took me there Ro and I loved it!

Thanks for the share!

A great poem on "diversity" and the role "nature' has in it. As you said, "Even when man is gone, diversity will once again, arise." Let me add, if humans learn to let mother nature be the loving mother that she is, diversity will happen more and more now and tomorrow. My poem, "I go to Nature" extols nature as you have expressed in your poem. http://uriahfields.com/gpage3.html.

Faux botanical. Well said, I loathe fake gardens, driveways that were once a front garden.... It is soul destroying.

Indeed, nature will out when we realise there is no planet B to fall back on.

Now where's that bloody Lorax gone?

An inspiring look at the many ways our human respect for nature has gone to hell in a hand basket. This one is a keeper to be read often. Thank you for posting.

Sure enough, man can only destroy so much, but nature is nature. Very nicely written.

Yes, for sure "nature rules in the end.". There's no getting around that. Nature will go on long after we are gone. Actually, nature will be better off.

Love ya!

Jane

No one so far as commented on the diversity of humans nature has created. It is really unfortunate that we have such a problem sorting out who is good and who is bad among humans. I have been fortunate to travel and to go to some of the poorest countries and live in the houses of the people that live there. It is surprising the breadth of the human race.

I hope very soon we will quit bickering over genetic and cultural differences and start accepting one another so we can more easily find those that are really harmful to our existence rather than those we are simply fearful of.

Ron

Soil, water and air ; we have done are best to add our man made toxins. For every one thing we have attempted to minimize the damage, we are right there to add on the next catastrophe. We create unwisely and rarely think about end results.

Despite what nature may wrought through weather cataclysms, it basically nurtures life. We should respect earth's domain.

We ought to take care of our nature nest.so we can pass it on to our children and our children's children. But do we? As I grow older I tread more lightly. Thank you for the kind reminder Ronald x

Ron - such Profundity abounds herein !

Balance of Nature - in simplest basic terms :

Plants give off Oxygen & take in Carbon Dioxide.
Man & Animals take in Oxygen & give off Carbon Dioxde.

Man started stripping down Trees Thousands of years ago,
to make Boats - to move, spread, and multiply.
Man then stripped down Forests, to make lumber, to build Houses,
to live in, and then, move, spread, and multiply.
Man then got even more industrious - Destroyed Rain Forests !
Oh yeah - then we have Man carelessly Causing Huge Forest Fires!
Man also invented the noxious Gasoline Cobustion Engine & Flooded
the Earth in Every Country with - wait for it - Carbon Dioxide & Carbon
Monoxide - the silent, swift, deadly Killer !

Duh ? Can I get a Duh ?

Plant TREES ! More Trees ! Millions of Trees are Needed to Reverse
the imbecilic Un-Balance of Nature !

Stop Building houses out of Wood !!!
Manufacture more affordable & sensible Total Electric Cars !
Acknowledge Global Warming as a Man-Made Dilemma !

Any Duhs Yet ?

Peace - Tom. 😎

Nature and man's destruction. A fatal mix but we both need each other. Well worded.

Nature doesn't need us; we need nature, so we had better be careful how we treat her. Nice work here. John

One way or another, nature always comes back...

Always,
Deborah

The earth will shake us off like a bad case of fleas- George Carlin

I hope nature does come out on top

Well, to take a very long look approach, in a few billion years our Sun will become a red giant, expand it is believed to earth's orbit and beyond. The earth will be like a ping pong ball on a hot grill after humans have long left the planet. Boy, I sure am a pessimist this morning. Of course, nice to enjoy nature in the meantime, ha!
Dan
PS Of course, maybe we can move planets around by then and just move to some safe space!

I agree that man can/maybe be the culprit in destroying much of nature. What is not so clear to me is that man will die out and nature will again have its way with the world.