It's a Great Green Earth

it's a great green earth
with haunting winds and moaning trees
and mountainous breasts to feed such as these
as might wander lustily across her surface

its a broad blue sky
with lotic clouds and lenten stars
and ecstatic light rains down in bars
to nourish the earth in his arms

what holds us here, this fascinating play--
ground and bound to share
a lifeforce woven of clay
an existence chiseled from air


((c) TLPatten, 03/2004, all rights reserved.)