Gratitude for Mother Earth in Northeastern USA in Springtime

 

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Spring is birth time for Earth,
source of all life and fertility.
Partner to God in your wisdom,
you urge your wild life to emerge.
 
Spring is birth time for you, Mother,
with your sky and oceans, your changing
temperatures and atmosphere,
you open up like a flower.
 
Spring is birth time, rebirth time,
What you nurture beneath the soil
Comes up for air like babies from wombs
Remembering their right forms.
 
You paint springtime like an artist
Rendering beauty with all of its scars
Despite your scars from the harms
Of humanity, and with help from humans, too.
 
Humans who see themselves in you
And recognize our relationship
in the something in us that awakens
each spring, despite work and aging.
 
Recognize our relationship, though
we give birth in any season,
We move on you like other wild forms
Renewing our energy with your spring.
 
Spring is birthtime for earth
Bringing forth what has been
Growing in the invisible hearts
Of all its forms, wild and free.

 

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