Michele connects with nature in an evocative poem, for Earth Day, exclusively for Different Truths.
“do you know,” I wrote,
trailing words behind my finger in the rich, loose loam,
“anything about the promise of Earth Day?”
the wind whispered and whirled, winsome, around me,
and I sifted some of my garden’s brown dirt from my hand
for joy of feeling connected
but, although the breezes beguiled
with wondrous scents of soil, blossom, and sky,
no words of answer were forthcoming
until I saw, nodding gently, the pollen-flecked heart
of a single, unassuming flower,
among the many, each and all offering promise of life’s sweetness
to butterfly, bee, and any others who sought to see
and I understood
©Michele Baron
Painting by the poet
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World-traveller, Fulbright Scholar, author, visual/performance artist Michele is again relocating after having lived 3 years in Central Asia. Itinerant developer of outreach projects, seeker of knowledge, writer of poetry, prose, and non-fiction. Sometimes she reads aloud for audiences, and occasionally she receives recognition, such as “International Ambassador of the Word” and “Ambassador of the Spanish Word” from the Egido Delgado Serrano Foundation, and a Citation for Contributions to the Arts from Maryland General Assembly
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