Poetry

Just Imagine

Frog-Life
Mirabel Sandler

Trees instead of polesMountains instead of buildingsRivers instead of roadsBoulders instead of cars

Flowers instead of litterGrass instead of storesForests instead of parking lotsSunsets instead of smog

Oceans instead of citiesLakes instead of concreteDolphins instead of shipsMeadows instead of machines

Mechanical things devour the earth like a fox hunts a rabbit,making their own islandswhile crumpling the world to pieces.

The moon stares down upon us with love.The trees give us their shade with kindness while all we see is an ax.The earth is not a huge clump of metal. We must see it in a different way,like the beauty it is.That’s the world we should be. That’s the world we should see.

Stone Soup · Children’s Art Foundation · Since 1973