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Wake up! Wake up! What's happening? The sky is turning red, the ocean is roaring loudly, there are no animals anywhere.

The earth cries out for help, but no one answers. We all ignored her when she needed us, but when we needed her, she was there and helped us survive.

How did we repay her? How did we thank her? We thanked her by cutting down trees, killing animals, throwing trash into the ocean as if trees and animals were nothing more than unimportant things.

We made Mother Earth cry, we made her suffer, and now that she's dying, what are we doing? How are we helping her?

"Please, help her, she needs your help, this is the last time she asks for it. Please."

Wake up, please.
Listen to the sound
of a butterfly
flying by

Feel the wind
from a bumblebee's buzzing

Clouds in the sky
The endless artwork
Three poems written by my beautiful wife Viola.
Arii Jul 6
Sun beating down
the tide comes around
with the gusts of
wind—adrenaline

rushes by as the sea
hushes the rustle of the trees
and the blinding rays of gold
lining the clouds above

Like a tear in the blue
And the light shining through
The comfortable blanket
the tangled net

That is a peaceful day
Coming to an end.
Shane Jul 6
When red apple roses rise from my head,
Know that the earth has embraced me, now dead.
I'll rest where roots wrap my bones in the ground,
And bloom through my silence, no longer bound.

Their petals still whisper the things I once said;
In death, I will part with the cage of my heart.
So grieve in my garden, but know it’s my home,
For beauty will grow where my love ever roams.
Ma'ya Jul 5
The roses never asked,
Why you didn’t return home.
It just bloomed and died.
The petals fell slow,
Each one a mute final word,
We could never say.
Ma'ya Jul 5
In the wet forest,
A carcass cradled by moss.
Life feeds on its loss.
Roots drink memory,
Silence thick as fallen leaves,
Time softens the bone.
Soul Jul 5
(Part 02)

As the galaxy
of shining stars
danced along with
the moon;
the stars twinkled,
slapping their long
eyelashes
till they felt
the warmth in
the space
between.
The moon,
at his very best
tried to illuminate,
but his light never
escaped,
for he only
got reflected.
The stars realized
the fakeness of his
shine,
for they
left him alone
in the midst of the
grey clouds...
A story of unmasking — when someone who tries to shine in front of others is exposed as not truly themselves, and ends up lonely, misunderstood, or rejected.
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