Bless the earth to bring forth sweet fruit, oh God,
In green profusion. Grant the land a sea
Of green, lush cover, bearing succulent,
Sweet fruit. Curse not earth-clod with bitter, clot
Harvest of Abel’s sacrificial blood, shed
By Cain’s green evil of envy toward
His brother but rather let the fertile
Green fields flow fresh juice, sweet as sugarcane;
Sweet sea of grass and herb and flowering
Flora rich with earth's abundance as coral
Gardens' overflowing ocean treasures;
For without the fruits and flora, we are
Nothing and life and labour but in vain
To reap the rot of sickness, age and pain.
Copyright ©2011 by G. Newton V. Chance
- G. NEWTON V. CHANCE
- George Newton Vivian Chance (Trinidad and Tobago) -- member of the Poet Society of Trinidad and Tobago, http://poetssocietytt.blogspot.com/ and the World Poets Society, http://world-poets.blogspot.com/ -- born in Tobago on 3rd March 1957. While residing at Rio Claro was inspired to write over a hundred poems at the turn of the Millennium. Hobbies include playing wind instruments, building computers, observing nature, reading and writing poetry. Believes that the power of a song is in its ability to evoke emotions by the marriage of lyric and music but that music without lyric can be just as powerful, that lyric without music can also be just as powerful, that there is music in the lyric and that lyric can be simple yet profound. Also, in this the age of computers, would like to model his lines after simple and efficient code and, analogous to Object Oriented Programming, achieve most of his imagery from nouns and verbs, avoiding the bloat and excess of unnecessary adjectives. This is what he aspires to attain in his poetry.
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