Can one change the seasons or rush them into being
Make the Earth move faster in its revolution around the Sun
They all move in their designated times and spacings
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Try as we may we cannot rush nature’s happenings
When we realize we too are part of that natural cycle
Perhaps we can relax and enjoy life happenings
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We live in a world of beck and call // demanding
Results in minutes and hours // not months and days
Entitled souls // we believe we’re deserving
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Nature has stopped us in our tracks
Showed us who really sets the course of our lives
And leaves us lying flat on our backs
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As the world turns and the seasons change
Earth will be here long after we are gone
Reclaiming itself // and only our fossils will remain
Painting: Dwight L. Roth
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This poem speaks volumes of truth. Earth will be here long after we are gone. We need to appreciate the moments of our life. Nature speaks wisdom if only we would listen and learn. Love this poem!
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Thank you so much for your kind and thoughtful comment!
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Dwight, thank you for this very wise message. It is that sense of entitlement that gets us into trouble. We destroy the earth because of our greed, disregarding wildlife, our own health, and the ruined world we will leave for future generations.
I kinda like the idea of becoming a fossil though. Maybe I shouldn’t plan to be cremated after all! : )
Take care. Cheryl
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Love it… maybe I should reconsider as well! Thank you for your great comment!
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There is a lot of sense in your poem. Your painting is so very nice, each piece of it and as a whole.
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Thank you Lisa. I appreciate your assessment of the painting.
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You’re welcome, Dwight.
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Ah yes! I hope that indeed we can relax and enjoy life. We certainly are being given more free time to do so right now with so much being shut down!
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Thank you Jan… Happy Birthday!
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Thanks, Dwight! It is so far. A great day!!
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:>)
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Yes, we are insignificant in the big scheme of things. Well written Dwight 🙂
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Thank you Christine!
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Nice poem sir, nature is truly powerful 🏞️
And as you pointed out, if we keep destroying the planet, we will perish, but the earth and life will go on.
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Thank you very much. Yes, I believe that is the way it will be…
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You write this with a very clear voice Dwight and I found it to be especially heartening – to some degree my own piece this month echoes some of the themes here too…
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Thank you so much! I appreciate your kind affirmation. I feel like poetry must be more that just a cute form. It needs to speak to what is happening all around and inside us.
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Hopefully we will all now learn to slow down
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It is amazing how much our temporary slow down has changed the environment. Thank Derrick.
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Indeed.
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We would do well to heed the words of your poem. We don’t have the control of nature we think we do. I love the beach scene.
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Thank you Liz. It would be fun to be at that beach today!
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🙂
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Very apt poem for our climate and virus crisis times. We need to be more humble and accepting of the ways of the natural world and change our destructive ways. We all become bones but hope we do not destroy too many other species if we continue this dismal path. Your poem shows the need for us to understand where we fit in the bigger picture.
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Thank you so much That is what I was trying to say. We are a part, not the whole thing.
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We try our best to take control of things that will never be ours at all. Very nice Dwight!
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So true!
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Current as only time and sea can be, loved especially
“We live in a world of beck and call // demanding
Results in minutes and hours // not months and days
Entitled souls // we believe we’re deserving”
Humanity really has no long term scope or idea or more worryingly maybe, even purpose or direction, ‘except a dire one, across the cliff to the currents that will wash us away.. until, maybe, hopefully we come together, it is our only hope.. Really hard to see that happening, though.. Thank you Dwight!
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Thank you Anthony. It will take a paradigm shift to change the selfish attitudes that are prevalent today. I appreciate yoru comment.
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That it Will, though I believe it will go okay, but we are just choosing somehow the harder more painful way to understanding than is needed, for fear, unability to emote or make sense together. But in the end, I believe all is as we are, in nature no good or bad, just experience. And I hope some critical mass of positive would flip the.. Current 😆sry , just had to use the c word yet again when a moment came. So people like you give me hope, who see.
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Keep spreading the positive message!
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This brings home the fact that we’re all but a blip in the great grand scheme of things!
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I think you are right!
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Thank you very much!
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So true, and loved the painting.
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Nice work, painting and poem! Congratulations, ~Jason
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Thank you so much!
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This is incredibly poignant! 💝 I must confess your poem made me very emotional as I read on. Especially resonate with; “Nature has stopped us in our tracks/Showed us who really sets the course of our lives.” Write on.
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Thank you so much, Sanaa. I find it so ironic that we think its us who make the world turn!! We still have a lot to learn!
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You’re most welcome 🙂 and yes I agree!
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:>)
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resonate deeply, you so rightly socked it to us Dwight!
wish I lived a bit closer, I’d love one or your paintings on my wall!
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That would be great! I would love that. Thank you for your great comment!
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and trust me I usually only hang my own photos, so it is a very high compliment … something about/in them strikes my heart! If I can work out what it is maybe I can try …
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That is very kind of you to say so. I am grateful for your friendship and our interchange of poetry.
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me also!
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:>)
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I hope we’ve learned a great lesson from the nature and from the pandemic in which we have no control. Great painting, Dwight!
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Thank you Miriam! I appreciate your comments.
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You’re welcome, Dwight.
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We are still clinging to our sense of entitlement…but we need to listen to the earth. Wise words. (K)
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Yes, Thank you so much.
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I couldn’t have expressed it better than that. So true! It is frustrating to watch people so selfish that they cannot sacrifice material things and events for even a short while so that we can return to “normal”. There are a few in my country that are impatient but it is mind boggling to watch the U.S. navigate (or refuse to navigate) through these times. Beautifully rendered, Dwight.
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Thank you mish! Ego and self-centeredness is a sad way to live! I appreciate your great comment.
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Very well evoked
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Thank you!
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You’re welcome
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