Love Mother Earth

Love Planet Earth

Our mother.

Clay, loam, sand

And from tangled roots

I arise to honor sun and sky

With many galaxies.

As flowers flame upward.

For we are of the same

Earth substances that fell

In different combinations

Yet we are more.

I raise my arm in praise

Toward mountain, sun

 And mysterious galaxies.

 I embrace with my left arm

Mother Earth below with its

Diamonds rubies and all precious stones

So there I shall someday return

My body below

And my soul to Heaven above.

                                      --Barbara Spring