Hopeless?

creature after creature
loses its home
or goes extinct

earth herself
thanks to us
is on the brink

man-made
in the end doesn’t
mean what we think

man-made
means the same as
man destroyed —

WE  are the weak link.

—Terri Guillemets

Waking welcome

Sun coaxes life
from the earth
with its warmth —

Grow, thrive, breathe
green things of the land
wake from your
winter’s nap and
joyously reach
for the spring —

Colors burst
into vibrant being —
fresh fireworks
on verdant stems of life

—Terri Guillemets