Happy Earth Day,
Big Blue Mama!
In our small press manner, Wild & Wondrous aims to be a voice for Mother Earth. If we listen carefully, we can hear all of the eloquent, soul-stirring ways she also speaks for herself—today and every day.
Voices of Earth
by Archibald Lampman:
We have not heard the music of the spheres,
The song of star to star, but there are sounds
More deep than human joy and human tears,
That Nature uses in her common rounds;
The fall of streams, the cry of winds that strain
The oak, the roaring of the sea’s surge, might
Of thunder breaking afar off, or rain
That falls by minutes in the summer night.
These are the voices of earth’s secret soul,
Uttering the mystery from which she came.
To him who hears them grief beyond control,
Or joy inscrutable without a name,
Wakes in his heart thoughts bedded there, impearled*,
Before the birth and making of the world.
* poetry awe bonus points for rhyming impearled with world.
