Life: from your ancient reservoirs and
desire, Has burst Apollo, bright sparkling spaceship To sail
through the night with the stars. Did we tire Of Earth, air, fire,
and water – finny fish,
Grinning dolphins, mellow whales,
buoyant seals, Rolling oceans, roaring, spitting river rapids,
Piercing panthers, snakes, sharks, and eagles, Forthright bears,
pouncing pumas, rebounding rabbits
?
Are we sick of the South Pacific, mad at
the Mediterranean Sea, Surfeited in the Serengeti, indifferent to
Yosemite
? Have we done the Himalayas, the High Sierras, Hawaii
?
Are
we estranged from Australia, bored on the Out Back ? Impervious to Patagonia, unmoved by Mount Blanc
?
Have we done the Antarctic, the Andes, the Outer Banks
?
Under deep, knowing skies colored canyons are built And delicate deserts marking time, dreaming, Sprinkled with flowers of velvet silk, Both focusing and spreading color, beaming
With beauty beyond compare. Are we so soon Weary of rain forests and waterfalls, Lazy lagoons, warm rainy afternoons On sand dunes, when suddenly the sun every drop recalls
?
Blue green globe,
island paradise –
must we escape
? Aqua gem in the
black universe
– what is our fate
?
