Prayer Petitions for Planet’s Prospects
Blessings Beads for Breaths and Beats
Priorities
Perhaps as pause/pivot/palate cleanser from pressing political plane perspectives, here’s another offering prioritizing this precious planet, because...
Just one day for Earth,
on whom everything depends?
Not nearly enough.
Preciation
Our fellow fauna,
their most deserving dearness.
May we protect them.
Our neighbor flora,
their most breath-giving isness.
May we defend them.
Our womb-tomb planet,
her most generous source-force.
May we deserve her.
Place?
Oh, how so lucky, ‘blessed’?
to be embodied, embedded in life
on this awesome planet’s face,
with her so ‘amazing grace’!
Praise
What good fortune is to breathe
pure air,
exhaled by flora’s foliage, leaves.
Oh, how graced are we to eat
fresh fruit,
from trees, shrubs to our lips, hips.
What dear boon it is to drink
clean water,
gift bestowed by rain and springs.
Precipitation
May rain come and fall.
May creeks trickle, sing, rush, flow.
May young saplings grow.
Pachamama
Mother, may we hear your song, your cries, your call.
May we be inspired, instigated, propelled
by your processes, your pregnancies, your promises.
May we prioritize the reparation of the damage we have done.
May we restore what we can of yesteryear, now, this year.
May we proceed with reverence,
with conscience, with prudence, with urgent diligence!
Proposal
May we waste not.
Not water, nor food, nor fuel.
Not word, nor thought, nor deed.
Not energy, nor strength, nor time.
Not anywhere, not any longer, not anymore.
Plans
May we tend tenderly
to that granted to us
by true grace.
May we guard fiercely
that gifted to us
by genes, gods.
May we meet our maker’s motives.
May we fulfill the intention
of evolution, of bang creation.
Promises
We commit to conserving, protecting, defending Earth’s elements,
syncing with her life rhythms our human instruments.
We commit to participating in the continuing life cycles
sensitively, intentionally, skillfully, wisely.
Participants
On this planet, life.
Nature, nurturing parent,
talented teacher.
We’re not architects
of this planet, perhaps just
awkward assistants?
Purposeful
May people live on this planet
for as long as we are sufficiently
healthy and helpful,
able to appreciate and to contribute
with wisdom and grace,
beyond the human race.
May people leave this planet
once we no longer do so.
Pinelike
May our petitions help tap spring wells
until reaching pure clean water,
as tenacious taproots dig deep, trusting.
May our prayers hoist kites far and away
to where fresh air can be found,
as stubborn strong branches reach high, hoping.
Probes
What is real right here?
Human-made messes galore.
And creatures playing.
What is true right now?
Planet burning, melting poles.
And grasses swaying.
What are we to do?
Clean up mess, tend to Earth’s calls.
Do more than praying.
Posters
The Earth-centric publications by these fellow Substack authors do much more than praying, hoping and wishing well for this wondrous wounded world by informing, inspiring, and/or instigating caring courageous conduct & constructive collaboration:
Field Guide to the Anthropocene, A Woman’s Place is in the Wild, Meditations on Nature, Crooked Roots, Slow Outdoors, Weeds, Wolves & Wild Women, Easy by Nature, Life in the Real World, Homecoming, Psyche’s Nest, Sea Cow, Notes from Nature, Jeanne Malmgren Rx Nature, Chasing Nature, Reweaving Earth & Soul, Practicing Terraphilia, Wren and the WildMay Earth’s wise children
resist damaging forces.
Present, and in plans.
Planet Htrae?
The Colorful Planet, a short story for hopeful human earthlings
With critical mass,
goodness prevails o’er the rest.
So we hope and pray.
Earnest Earthlings, care to share your hopes and prayers?
Add your and other publications aligned with our intentions?
(‘Hearting,’ restacking and sharing posts help them reach others)
By human earthlings’
heads hearts hands intelligence.
No AI used here.
Margo’s restacking
spreads here’s seeds to there’s ‘their’ hands.
May they root and sprout.
Marisol, your poetic reflections are both heartfelt and urgent, beautifully capturing Mother Earth’s grace and the responsibility we hold. Your clarion call is a powerful reminder that appreciating Her must go hand-in-hand with actively protecting and restoring - it’s a plea we simply cannot ignore.
I loved how your "Colourful Planet" story highlighted the harm caused by division of colours (a great metaphor!) and the beauty of ‘rainbow’ unity. It reminds me that diversity is essential for all life to thrive and flourish. May it be so. You remind me of a little poem I wrote many moons ago ...
Reading Colour
Is there a language where the word
hate doesn’t exist?
And in its place
a hundred shades of love.
Is there a word
for the feeling behind your eyes
just before you start to cry?
A gentle rush of blueness.
Could we write on our screens
not in letters but in colour,
so that our children
can learn to read the rainbow.