Environmental Poetry

Brenda Bunting

We Are Earth

By Brenda Bunting

I feel this old earth--

I feel it when it heaves

When souls are newly born

And when they have to leave

I feel this old earth--

I feel it in my knees

In the waters and the tides

And the oceans and the seas

I feel it in the mountains

Topped with snow

And in secret places

Where strange things grow

I feel this old earth--

I feel it in my hands

In the wide and open prairies

All across the land

I feel it still and silent

in the mighty Sequoia trees

Where men with saws and tools

buzz like angry bees

I feel it when it is cruel

And when it is beautifully kind

I feel this old earth dying

Yet beating all the time

Brenda D. Bunting is a socially conscious Poet and Educator, Spoken Word Artist and Workshop Facilitator. Ms. Bunting is in the Poets in Progress (PIP) program through the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and headed by the Poet Laureate of Washington DC. A University of Kentucky alumnus with her B.A. in English Ms. Bunting has been writing and performing poetry for over 30 years.

Brenda has been published in newspapers, anthologies and journals. She was invited to read her original works at the 2017 Bridge water International Poetry Festival at Bridge water College. She knows the benefits and advocates for the therapeutic use of writing poetry for mental and emotional wellness and healing from traumatic events. Her book of poetry, "Poems of Love and Violence in between Life and Death 2^nd Edition" is available for purchase on Amazon.com. She is a life member of the Kentucky State Poetry Society (K.S.P.S.) an avid hiker and lover of the preserving our environment.