So What

All Brass
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It’s hot So hot
So what =
No bees High seas Few trees =
No birds Are heard
Just words =

Miles -

It is too hot
Seas have started rising
It’s not surprising
Carbon levels rising
Have melted the ice
This is our vice
We didn’t have to burn trees
Soon the forests will vanish
With animals banished 
Without fruit there’ll
Be sadness and for sure
It will cause madness 
Our blood returns to the sea Our bones return to the earth






We think we own land
We’re part of all land
One with
All life on the planet
We owe
The earth our care because
We help
Sustain one another
Sunset feeds like supper
We drink dawn like water
Drinking with our eyes
We watch the
Water rise to skies
Happy that
It nourishes the land with rain
A simple grain of sand
In a whirl
In an oyster
Becomes a prized pearl
How well the earth
Regenerates itself
A narrative for all
Of life that lives here



John -

Hear the sounds that
The trees make
Listen to the ways fruits
Leave their bitterness
And find sweetness
Hear how forests work together
To keep each tree healthy
Hear the trees
Waiting patiently
For the time to start growing
The sound of trees can teach Us how their saplings find a way through the earth
We’ve been solid rock for Years, now we should crumble
And let new shoots through
Hear the buds
Grow out of a branch
Hear the leaves
Face the light in early dawn
These are the sounds of
Life speaking gently to us
Listen closely and you
Will remember
How to live lightly again



Life’s journeys go
Round in circles
Always be ready for the
new connections
The sound of growth that spurs talent flowing through our nature
Prompting poetry
That embraces all life
With deep affection
The generous trees
Mix their glucose
And fresh water to light
from the sun
A blend that they convert
To oxygen which they release
Into the air on gentle breezes
Giving life to us all
Whether we are
Rich or whether we are poor
Reminding us of the value
of sharing
Our children know about
This need to be generous to all life inhabiting the planet

Cannonball -

We lie around
In the long summer grass
Listening to feint echoes
Of nature’s soft whispers
Allowing time to slip by
Graciously and imperceptibly We lift our ears
To gentle sounds
Coming from osmosis in redwoods or blossoms
on fruit trees
Rhythmic’ly vibrating and
Creating new melodies
That stimulate gracious swings in our orbit
Like this life’s regenerated
Skipping along
Fresh as the Spring
As leaves start to chatter
And resonate through
Sleepy, sleepy groves
Speaking gently to us
With rhythms
That promise
New life by playing
Lightly on our grateful senses


As gems of dew do
As the rays of sun do
We sing together
Crafting a single voice
And discover sounds of
The dreams we dreamt
In the moonlight
Charming refrains that
Splashed their way upon
The distant waves
Of the dark blue sea
Flurries of notes
And heartfelt vibrations
Inspiring us and
Opening us
To the light
Like - spring buds
When giving birth to leaves
Our job is to hear how nature fills its heart – knowing that all life on the Earth Contributes to its harmony
So open up and breathe
In sounds that trees
Release like a gentle breeze
And make this your
melody or


All Brass

Stay hot Too hot
So what Here’s what
No bees Disease
Few trees High seas

Too hot Real hot
So what Here’s what
No birds Are heard
Just words Absurd

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