One of the most overused and underappreciated resources in the world is Mother Earth. With so many different elements that make up the earth this collection of poetry focuses in on three pieces of the earth and the world that we live in today that tend to be taken for granted. In Sound, we focus in on the things that we hear every day and don't realize it because we expect to hear them. We anticipate relationships with sound that are not a guarantee to everyone else. In Color, poking fun at the first time this person tries to dye their hair, a poem that focuses on the idea that if you change the way you look your life will instantly be better. A great play on words that subtextually connects us by making us laugh at the satire that a $5 box of hair dye could change our lives. Finally in Textures a girl reflects on how a simple prom dress changed her life forever. It made her realize that there was something out there that she didn't know about and she decided she wanted to learn. Focusing her time and energy into learning about fabrics and textures and how they are made and produced and realizing that something as simple as a red satin prom dress can be the beginning of a great thing.
Appreciating Mother Earth
Sound
At a very young age I had an obsession
Something that lived in my head
As an active neighbor
Right next door that I waved at
Every morning
Happy to see them
Happy they stepped out on their porch this morning
And every morning
The earth.
The Earth is as important as air
As relevant as water
And as unappreciated as a paper towel
But think, how messy would the world be if we couldn’t
Clean up after ourselves?
The Earth is something we don’t think about because we know
As long as we are here it will he here with us
I slide my bare feet into the sand and I am
Fixated on the millions of miniature rocks that
Slide through my feet
I take a handful and put it in a plastic bag to that I can remember what it feels like
How it smells
I push my feet back and forth, back and forth
To add into my memory what this feels like
In case I never make it to the beach again
Never share my skin with one of the skins of the Earth.