Jayaraj Vyas

Of Many Worlds in This World : Margaret Cavendish : : Earth Poems : :

Of Many Worlds in This WorldMargaret Cavendish Just like as in a nest of boxes round,Degrees of sizes in each box are found:So, in this world, may many others beThinner and less, and less still by degree:Although they are not subject to our sense,A world may be no bigger than two-pence.Nature is curious, and suchContinue reading “Of Many Worlds in This World : Margaret Cavendish : : Earth Poems : :”

Ovid on Climate Change : Eliza Griswold : : Earth Poems : :

Ovid on Climate ChangeBY ELIZA GRISWOLDBastard, the other boys teased him,till Phaethon unleashed the steedsof Armageddon. He couldn’t holdtheir reins. Driving the sun too closeto earth, the boy withered rivers,torched Eucalyptus groves, until the hillsburst into flame, and the people’s bloodboiled through the skin. Ethiopia,land of burnt faces. In a boy’s ragefor a name, theContinue reading “Ovid on Climate Change : Eliza Griswold : : Earth Poems : :”

Webcam the World : Heather McHugh : : Earth Poems : :

Webcam the World : : Heather McHugh : : : : Get all of it. set up the shotsat every angle; run them online24-7. Get beautiful stuff (likescenery and greenery and style)and get the ugliness (like crueltyand quackery and rue). there’s nothingunastonishing – but get that, too. We have to save it all, now thatContinue reading “Webcam the World : Heather McHugh : : Earth Poems : :”

World : A R Ammons : : Earth Poems : :

World : : By A R Ammons ( 1926-2001 ) : : : : Breakers at high tide shootspray over the jetty bouldersthat collects in shallow chips, depressions, evening the surface to run-off level:of these possible worlds of held water,most can’t outlast the interim tideless drought, so are clear, sterile, encased withsalt: one in particular,Continue reading “World : A R Ammons : : Earth Poems : :”

Eve to Her Daughters : Judith Wright : : Earth Poems : :

Eve to her Daughters : : Judith Wright : : : : : : : : It was not I who began it.Turned out into draughty caves,hungry so often, having to work for our bread,hearing the children whining,I was nevertheless not unhappy.Where Adam went I was fairly contented to go.I adapted myself to the punishment:Continue reading “Eve to Her Daughters : Judith Wright : : Earth Poems : :”

Fire and Ice : Robert Frost : : Earth Poems : :

Fire and Ice BY ROBERT FROSTSome say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I’ve tasted of desireI hold with those who favor fire.But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo say that for destruction iceIs also greatAnd would suffice. “Fire and Ice”, A short 9 LinesContinue reading “Fire and Ice : Robert Frost : : Earth Poems : :”

Voices of Earth : Archibald Lampman : : Earth Poems : :

Voices Of Earth : : by Archibald Lampman : : We have not heard the music of the spheres,The song of star to star, but there are soundsMore deep than human joy and human tears,That Nature uses in her common rounds; 4The fall of streams, the cry of winds that strain 5 The oak, theContinue reading “Voices of Earth : Archibald Lampman : : Earth Poems : :”

Mother Earth : Henry Van Dyke : : Earth Poems : :

Mother Earth : : by Henry Van Dyke : : : : Mother of all the high-strung poets and singers departed,Mother of all the grass that weaves over their graves the glory of the field,Mother of all the manifold forms of life, deep-bosomed, patient, impassive,Silent brooder and nurse of lyrical joys and sorrows!Out of thee,Continue reading “Mother Earth : Henry Van Dyke : : Earth Poems : :”

Earth! My Likeness! : Walt Whitman : : Earth Poems : :

EARTH, MY LIKENESS : : ( 1891 – 1892 ) Leaves Of Grass : : Walt Whitman : : : : EARTH, my likeness, 1Though you look so impassive, ample and spheric there, 2I now suspect that is not all; 3I now suspect there is something fierce in you eligible to burst forth, 4For anContinue reading “Earth! My Likeness! : Walt Whitman : : Earth Poems : :”

Move Eastward, Happy Earth : Alfred Lord Tennyson : : Earth Poems : :

Move Eastward, Happy Earth : : : : : : : By Alfred Lord Tennyson : : : : : : : Move eastward, happy earth, and leaveYon orange sunset waning slow:From fringes of the faded eve,O, happy planet, eastward go:Till over thy dark shoulder glowThy silver sister world, and riseTo glass herself in deweyContinue reading “Move Eastward, Happy Earth : Alfred Lord Tennyson : : Earth Poems : :”