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Earth to Poetry: A 30-Days, 30-Poems Earth, Self & Other Care Challenge

By L.L. Barkat

Earth to Poetry: A 30-Days, 30-Poems Earth, Self & Other Care Challenge
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Caring for the earth and its climate is a simple matter of caring for one’s natural home, caring for oneself, and caring for others we love. It’s easy to forget this when we face the seeming complexities of earth care and varying philosophical perspectives.

But, really—to care, or not to care….that is not the question. After all, as humans most of us care quite deeply about our surroundings, ourselves, and our loved ones.

This 30-days, 30-poems challenge (read 30, write 30!) assumes we care—or want to—and it helps us find a poetic way in, as well as understand our hopes and struggles in a world where sometimes we’ve wondered: does anyone care? They do. And they can.

Includes a Bonus Essay: “It’s Not About What We Can’t Do—It’s About Love.”

Poetry is a life cherishing force Mary Oliver quote for climate book + Desperate hope built into poetry W.S. Merwin quote

Table of Contents

A Way In

Day 1 • Begin
        Poem: Find
        Prompt: Begin

Day 2 • A Dawn
        Poem: After Reading About the Iceberg Waterfalls
        Prompt: A ____ Dawn of Time

Day 3 • Just When
        Poem: The Earth’s Economy
        Prompt: Just When I Thought the Day

Day 4 • Age
        Poem: Back
        Prompt: Age a Tree

Day 5 • Prayer or Ode
        Poem: Prayer for the Pompadour Looking Up From My Plate
        Prompt: Prayer or Ode for Food

Day 6 • No Rain
        Poem: Aubade
        Prompt: No Rain & Road

Day 7 • Distances
        Poem: North on the Illahee Ferry
        Prompt: Distances & Magnitude

Day 8 • Pretend
        Poem: Today by the Creek I Pretend I’m the Dalai Lama
        Prompt: I Pretend

Day 9 • Price
        Poem: The Poetry of Money 2
        Prompt: Beauty’s Price

Day 10 • Look
        Poem: Drought on the Open Road
        Prompt: Look Up

Day 11 • Love
        Poem: Awaiting Arrival
        Prompt: Food as Love

Day 12 • Influences
        Poem: Father’s Day
        Prompt: Influences

Day 13 • Question
        Poem: Petit à Petit L’Oiseau Fait Son Nid
        Prompt: Working Out a Question

Day 14 • Technology
        Poem: Eve’s Second Garden
        Prompt: Guardian Technology

Day 15 • Sun
        Poem: Untitled. “Papa is the sky…”
        Prompt: You Are My Sun

Day 16 • Deep-downness
        Poem: Untitled. “Do the shells…”
        Prompt: The Deep-downness

Day 17 • Reclamation
        Poem: Resort
        Prompt: Reclamation

Day 18 • Morning
        Poem: Li Po
        Prompt: Every Morning

Day 19 • Making
        Poem: Hawksbill Crag
        Prompt: Making Buttonholes

Day 20 • Surprise
        Poem: Immolation
        Prompt: Technology’s Surprise Side

Day 21 • Loveliness
        Poem: Night
        Prompt: Looking for Loveliness

Day 22 • Never
        Poem: Untitled. “At the end of the Sound…”
        Prompt: Never Want to Stop

Day 23 • Signs
        Poem: Trouble in Paradise
        Prompt: Signs Of

Day 24 • Favors
        Poem: from Romeo & Juliet: “Come night…”
        Prompt: Asking Favors

Day 25 • Convinced
        Poem: Turning
        Prompt: Convinced or Not

Day 26 • Peace
        Poem: The Lake Isle of Innisfree
        Prompt: Peace There

Day 27 • Season
        Poem: Under Heaven
        Prompt: Season

Day 28 • Care
        Poem: Contingency Plans
        Prompt: Whose Care

Day 29 • Running
        Poem: As the Deer
        Prompt: Running With

Day 30 • Making
        Poem: Neruda’s Memoirs
        Prompt: The Making of a Poet & A Poet’s Makings

After the Challenge
        Earth to Poetry: Answering
        Top 80 Game Changers Shared in Drawdown
        About EcoChallenge
        Celebrate Poetic Earth Month

Bonus Essay:
        It’s Not About What You Can’t Do—It’s About Love


Series: All Books, Masters in Fine Living, Poetry, Teaching Poetry Unit, Writing Books Tagged with: climate education, climate teaching

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