Thank You Lord for trees, and wind
That blows
their leaves across our land
For all the green and growing things
For winter
skies and bird-song sings
For taxicabs and restaurants
Good food,
and air in vast amounts
For snowy days that change the world to black and white
And clear blue days that fill the world with sparkling light
For twisted tangleness of woods
Filled with
creatures quick and small
That scurry ‘round in search of food
Like people
in a shopping mall
Thank you for peace that settles in
Like
starlings on the highest bough
To catch first rays of morning sun
Above the
fields of furrowed plough
Where seeds will sprout and grow and soon
Be food for
table; thread for loom
While ocean waves forever roll
Upon the
shore and take their toll
On shells transforming into sand
Where
children run with flailing hands
While parents watch with heartful glee
As terns
with skillful accuracy
Dive like arrows piercing sea
Where
hoards of living creatures flee
And live to swim another day
Among the
currents’ gentle sway
Of seaweed, jellyfish and roe
Where
multi-colored corals grow
Fed by filtered light of Sun
And flowing
masses of plankton
All this as Earth goes turning on
Its way
around the glorious Sun
And man meanders through his life
Half in the
dark, half in the Light.
Mark Graham 1/13 Perry Hall, MD
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