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Little Blue Marble
It’s so small.
It’s smaller than the Moon.
It barely covers France.
Beneath it the ocean floor is grey.
Imagine the mud wrung into dry dust.
Imagine the canyons, the island mountains
all suddenly naked to the sky.
Imagine the dead fish, the dead whales.
There are pockmarks in every land mass
where the water once was.
The eye expects them to be blue;
they have always been blue.
The mind expects there to be water there,
where there has been water
as long as we knew it.
There it is, in a ball,
clear blue now that the pollution is out of it.
(Imagine that, too, an ocean of litter left behind.)
There it is, all the water in the world:
1.4087 billion cubic kilometers of it.
Rivers, lakes, glaciers, oceans,
ground water, clouds.
Looking at it makes my mouth dry.
It’s so small.
February 29 2008, 12:59:06 UTC 13 years ago
oh wow !
February 29 2008, 14:55:18 UTC 13 years ago
Tantalizing Time --- or Ravishing Time
Yes, what mankind does with it ..... *sigh (or as Bette Midler sang "From a Distance --there is Harmony ---God is watching us, God is watching us, from a Distance). We must take good care not to loose our marble !
Re: oh wow !
February 29 2008, 21:26:35 UTC 13 years ago
February 29 2008, 17:29:18 UTC 13 years ago
Yay!
February 29 2008, 19:57:52 UTC 13 years ago
*chuckle* I actually put that line in because the poem was making *me* thirsty too.
Re: Yay!
February 29 2008, 20:05:04 UTC 13 years ago