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Daily EarthPoem

Each weekday morning, Morning Earth subscribers receive by email a photo/poem which celebrates a gift from Earth. For several years poet John Caddy has been e-mailing morning news of the wild to some thousand classrooms and persons on five continents. These morning poems are archived here, with clickable thumbnails.

Morning Earth Entry 7.3.2009

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On a leaf of twisted stalk
a bluet damselfly lights and rests
above the shadowed forest floor,
enticing light to invent
fluorescence once again.

 

This is the Familiar Bluet, a much better name than Common Bluet, which this spectacular being might have been stuck with.

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*Note: My photos are captured instants which I use to trigger memory. My short-term memory is damaged from stroke, and this is my adaptation. These are not illustrated poems, nor are they captioned photos. These Morning Earth Entries try to replay an intense moment of direct sensory experience--and a bit of its nourishment. --JC

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