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The great sigh of our still blue marble
Two poems by Michael S. Glaser
Climate Change
- It is the great sigh of our still blue marble:
- Each new storm a gasp for air,
- a crying out from the rivers of truth
- that are poisoning our political seas.
- Who makes time to consider
- the wild salmon struggling,
- despite everything, to make it up stream
- who attends to the whales
- whose blow holes
- are clogged with plastic,
- Or listens to the sea
- which used to be filled with poems?
Adaptation
- Massive violence may well be
- the predictable constant of our universe:
- stars exploding,
- asteroids colliding,
- plagues and droughts . . . .
- each one inviting new ways
- to adapt to survive and create
- as the primordial process plunges itself
- into that cauldron of roiling wonder
- seeking alignment with everything that has gone before,
- and co-evolving in ways that aim
- to transform destruction
- into something unimagined
- and yet so astonishingly new
- it seems woven into the cellular fabric
- of the great cosmic loom
- as it creates a universal tapestry
- we recognize as both
- both particular and true.
- with gratitude to Brian Swimm
Michael S. Glaser served as Poet Laureate of Maryland from 2004–2009 and is a professor emeritus at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Editor of three anthologies and seven collections of his own work, he also co-edited the Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton. More at: michaelsglaser.com
Here's something you might be interested in.
The great sigh of our still blue marble
Two poems by Michael S. Glaser
The great sigh of our still blue marble
Two poems by Michael S. Glaser
Climate Change
- It is the great sigh of our still blue marble:
- Each new storm a gasp for air,
- a crying out from the rivers of truth
- that are poisoning our political seas.
- Who makes time to consider
- the wild salmon struggling,
- despite everything, to make it up stream
- who attends to the whales
- whose blow holes
- are clogged with plastic,
- Or listens to the sea
- which used to be filled with poems?
Adaptation
- Massive violence may well be
- the predictable constant of our universe:
- stars exploding,
- asteroids colliding,
- plagues and droughts . . . .
- each one inviting new ways
- to adapt to survive and create
- as the primordial process plunges itself
- into that cauldron of roiling wonder
- seeking alignment with everything that has gone before,
- and co-evolving in ways that aim
- to transform destruction
- into something unimagined
- and yet so astonishingly new
- it seems woven into the cellular fabric
- of the great cosmic loom
- as it creates a universal tapestry
- we recognize as both
- both particular and true.
- with gratitude to Brian Swimm
Michael S. Glaser served as Poet Laureate of Maryland from 2004–2009 and is a professor emeritus at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Editor of three anthologies and seven collections of his own work, he also co-edited the Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton. More at: michaelsglaser.com
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