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Earth, Pale Blue Dot   Leave a comment

Moon Over Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, AZ — Image by kenne

Earthrise 

Where despite disparities
We all care to protect this world,
This riddled blue marble, this little true marvel
To muster the verve and the nerve
To see how we can serve
Our planet. You don’t need to be a politician
To make it your mission to conserve, to protect,
To preserve that one and only home
That is ours,
To use your unique power
To give next generations the planet they deserve.

We are demonstrating, creating, advocating
We heed this inconvenient truth, because we need to be anything but lenient
With the future of our youth.

And while this is a training,
in sustaining the future of our planet,
There is no rehearsal. The time is
Now
Now
Now,
Because the reversal of harm,
And protection of a future so universal
Should be anything but controversial.

So, earth, pale blue dot
We will fail you not.

— Amanda Gorman

Posted February 17, 2023 by kenneturner in Existential Moment, Information, Photography, Poetry, Sweetwater, Tucson Arizona

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A Poem By The People   3 comments

Amanda Gorman — Source: Cultured Magazine 

Congratulations to Amanda Gorman, the National Youth Poet Laureate of the United States,
who will deliver a poem at the presidential inauguration on January 20th.

— kenne 

There’s a poem in this place—
a poem in America
a poet in every American
who rewrites this nation, who tells
a story worthy of being told on this minnow of an earth
to breathe hope into a palimpsest of time—
a poet in every American
who sees that our poem penned
doesn’t mean our poem’s end.

— from In This Place (An American Lyric) by Amanda Gorman  

Posted January 14, 2021 by kenneturner in Information, Photography, Poetry

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