ecosystems

Randomly Saturday – Thoughts I May have had Before

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Wonders of life

All around us

Even below our feet

Letting go of what we know

To begin see all the unknowns


A feeling that there is

More to life

Than we ever imagined

Thanks to loujen haxm’Yor https://loujenhaxmyor.com/ for reminding me of an old post I had done https://theantilandscaper.org/2014/04/24/collaboration-on-oldest-living-things/

Thanks all

Footprints

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Step lightly
To do as little harm
As we step forward
In a world teeming with life
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Time and the forces of nature
May erase some of our former steps
But there are more than 7 billion of us

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Ever stepping forward
Ever the desire
Ever the need for more
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Our footprints become heavier
As we mar the ground beneath our feet
Ever harming more living things
Those that are not us
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The steps of the past are still there
If we look behind

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It is to our next steps
To our children, and to theirs’
To learn
To teach

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To step lightly
And do as little harm
In a world teeming with life
For it shouldn’t be only about us
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Kicking Leaves Again

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The trees are bare
Yet no trace of a season remains
Raked and bagged, it is no more

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Except in my little plot of this earth
Where the leaves still swirl
Lifted by the November gales

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The energy spend of a summer season
Will remain, food for the life in the soil

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It will again
Be the the green of our next growing season

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For now I will be out kicking leaves
Until the snows of winter
Blankets the fall and prepares for a coming spring

Hibernation

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Hibernation
It is a matter of orbits and tilts
Of light verses dark
Warm over cold
A means of survival

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To flourish
When all things seem alive
To hibernate
When life is frozen against the low angle light

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Each morning the sun moves along the horizon
It is that season
As day equals night

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To awaken
Out of a den
To emerge from the mud
Or beneath the matted leaves
Whether the earth is ready or not

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Life is stirred
Weaken, yet hopeful
To what life offers ahead

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Converge

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Clouds travel on the winds
Releasing its’ burden
In uncounted drops
That fall to the earth
To be adsorbed
To move on the surface
To evaporate back to the sky
Seeps and seasonal streams
Flow downward
To join with
Brooks and streams
To form a river
Ever flowing
Down the contorts of land
River meets rivers
As they make their way
And converge with the sea
To move outward
To sink down
Or upward
To create more clouds
In the cycles unbroken