{"id":68541,"date":"2020-06-27T17:10:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=68541"},"modified":"2020-07-06T17:29:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T21:29:12","slug":"mother-earth-cries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/mother-earth-cries\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother Earth Cries &#8211; Hour #10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humankind stomps across our planet<\/p>\n<p>leaving destruction in its wake.<\/p>\n<p>Forests decimated,<\/p>\n<p>species eradicated,<\/p>\n<p>oceans and air polluted,<\/p>\n<p>people starving,<\/p>\n<p>dying.<\/p>\n<p>Mother Earth cries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen will you ever learn, when will you ever learn?\u201d <sup>1.<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Want trumps need, grows into greed.<\/p>\n<p>More factories, more roads, more buildings.<\/p>\n<p>More money, more of this, more of that.<\/p>\n<p>We get what we want only to want more.<\/p>\n<p>We have no joy in this wanting, in these gains<\/p>\n<p>We compete to have the most,<\/p>\n<p>without concern for those who have less.<\/p>\n<p>Our human nature wars against our humanity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen will you ever learn, when will you ever learn?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It took a pandemic to show you the way<\/p>\n<p>It took a lockdown to open your eyes<\/p>\n<p>But will your minds, your hearts and eyes cloud over again<\/p>\n<p>once \u2018normal\u2019 days return?<\/p>\n<p>Or, will you see how I, Mother Nature,<\/p>\n<p>can teach you how to live,<\/p>\n<p>how to heal the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Together, we can heal what you have harmed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen will you ever learn, when will you ever learn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Inspired by Song, <em>Where have all the flowers gone<\/em> by Pete Seeger. I changed \u2018we\u2019 in refrain to \u2018you\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Painting image: Copyright Wendie Donabie 2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humankind stomps across our planet leaving destruction in its wake. Forests decimated, species eradicated, oceans and air polluted, people starving, dying. Mother Earth cries. &nbsp; \u201cWhen will you ever learn, when will you ever learn?\u201d 1. &nbsp; Want trumps need, grows into greed. More factories,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1411,"featured_media":68527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68541"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78151,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68541\/revisions\/78151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}