“Wandering”

Ashlyn Arnold

“How Is The Earth So Beautiful Still”

Lara Luczak

“How is the Earth so beautiful still?”

Birds still singing in the sycamore trees,

Forgotten are the sighs of December’s sullen seize.

Blighted forest no longer fraught with real ill,

How is the Earth so beautiful still?

Still Spring bears abundant fruit,

Prospering from what was pollute.

Why dost thou hold the treasure fast 

Of youth’s delight, when youth is past?

Many their morning melt in tears,

Days to months to years.

How can your clouds still disperse,

When it is easier to turn to worse?

• Category: Photography, Poetry