#eco-poetry

[atompowers]

5 Perfect Poems to Celebrate Earth Month

“Notes from a Climate Victory Garden” by Louise Maher-Johnson

Remember: Everything is connected.

              Everyone lives downstream and downwind.

Reimagine: Deep conservation, cooperation, and community.

Rebalance: Nature with nature. Mimic her. Sense her. Be her.

READ: 5 Perfect Poems to Celebrate Earth Month

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[samw3000]

Scorched Earth

Having nothing left to giveYou plan to leave meIt hurts. Believe me Take heed! You cannot clone me. As much as this will injure your delicate sense of entitlement, you do not own me. Without exception, the willows weep. They've always known - and daily, others join in their grief. Congested, We bemoan ... environmental contamination, species extinction and your propensity to simply throw things…

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#climate action #conservation #dVerse #Earth Day #Eco-Poetry #Environmental Awareness #Environmentalism #haibun #Nature Poetry #poem #poetry #Reflection #Sustainable Living

[ecopoetry4teachers]

Teaching Current Events in the Classroom Through Ecopoetry

Last week, my students spent time viewing weather reports, watching projections and talking about Hurricane Lee. After gauging their interest in the hurricane, I decided to use short lessons that allowed them to steer the conversation. They used their experience with post tropical storm Fiona in 2022 to engage in the daily lessons. Most of my students are not yet 10, but their conversations and insights told me it is an area of interest, or perhaps concern, for them.  What can Adora Svitak teach us?

I have always felt it was important to teach current issues in an age appropriate manner. I believe students are curious about their world and want to know more about it. As a parent, I want to shelter my children from some of the harsh realities, but I also know the importance of teaching them the truth. Young educational activist Adora Svitak said:

"By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don't need to wait for our grandchildren's questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events."

Adora Svitak https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/adora_svitak_594720

Adora Svitak and Paulo Freire: What is the connection?

This young activist reminds me of Paulo Freire. Freire believed that teaching adult learners to read would help them see their own oppression. This knowledge could then transform their lives through action. Teaching current events in the classroom, can do the same. Elizabeth Lange, in her 2023 book Transformative Sustainability Education, stated that Freire’s:

"literacy process was called conscientization as adult learners become conscious of the root causes of their oppression and then took collective action to improve their lives" (Lange, 2023, pg. 76). 

This is similar to Svitak's belief that children need to understand current events, so they can begin their work toward change. To learn more about Paulo Freire’s theory of education, watch the following video.

An informative academic article regarding Freire's transformative learning theory can be found here:

The Ecopoetry Connection

One major current issue that faces children globally is climate change. Extreme weather events, loss of ecosystems, endangered species and species at risk, pollution, environmental disasters or social system failures are all partly the result of climate change. We need look no further than Great Thunberg to see how these issues are affecting children and young adults. Her global climate strike has mobilized millions of students throughout the world. My own students have hosted small rallies outside our school as a way to tell adults they want change. Youth do have the intelligence, willingness and creativity to take action against climate change. Young spoken word poet, Amanda Gorman, gives us a glimpse as to what youth can do:

Black eco-poets, such as Frank X Walter use their experience with oppression and resilience in his poems. Contemporary eco-poets are using their word to teach about environmental impacts to our natural world. Below is Walter's poem Love Letter to the World.

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/8-black-eco-poets-who-inspire-us#:~:text=%E2%80%9CEco%2Dpoetics%E2%80%9D%20%20may%20be,finding%20home%20away%20from%20home.

Edinburgh Napier University Professor Sam Illingworth states that ecopoet Elise Paschen, uses her poem The Tree Agreement, to

"promote the idea of the agency people possess in protecting and preserving their local environment. These poems discuss neighborhood resistance to tree felling and challenge our need to make a mark on the world."

Eco-poetry is more than poetry about the environment. It tells a story that is meant to expand the reader's thinking and make connections between humankind and the litany of social issues that surround their lives. As Eleanor Flowerday (2021) states,

“Eco-poetry roots you in your environment both physically but also in the way we tell stories to one another. It provides that line of connection to your surroundings that is so necessary in founding a relationship with the natural world: that feeling that you actually belong there.”

As an educator, I believe eco-poetry has a role to play in helping to transform the global climate crisis. Eco-poetry has a place in every language arts curriculum because the climate crisis effects everyone. The poets, educators and activists discussed in this blog are just a few in the every growing list of climate change activists.

Reference List

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ImsBe97u3DMtBAbB4hj3N9Rt8ASKcpEYfYP6JJPUhZQ/edit

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[artschoolsurvivor]

Puzzle 2

Bronze to orange blue to black Skies burn thickening Tornado stacks The vortex drops Unsummoned La Niña Returns to Oz Plastic wraps Atlantic drift Deep water stills And Churning In glass houses Winter recedes

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#Eco-poetry #Oz #poem of the day #poems #Poetry #puzzle #weather #Will Vigar #writing

[thirdity]

Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow.

Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose

#language #poetry #words #creativity #quotes #Eco #Umberto Eco #Postscript to the Name of the Rose

[emberintayson]

A poetry zine for Zinetober. This poem helps me feel more free. And making zines helps me feel free to just create, make mistakes, make more creations, learn, make more mistakes and learn from those. May you feel so free.

#words heal #zinetober2023 #eco goth #make art #zines #zinetober #zinester #poetry #poetry zine #literature zine #charles bukowski #poem #poems and quotes #emberin tayson #litzine #death positive #you are marvelous #claim your life #zine therapy

[xoxojessicacore]

Pinterest

#art quotes poetry sad romance frutiger aero xoxojessicacore #art #quotes #poetry #sad romance #frutiger aero #frutiger eco

[laurakwatson]

SMALL CONSOLATIONS FOR THE CLIMATE ANXIETY THAT KEEPS YOU UP FOR HOURS IN THE NIGHT

From my zine, Small Consolations.

(Made with support from The Canada Council for the Arts. A big thank you to them!)

#drawing #illustration #artists on tumblr #zine #zines #poetry #poem #art #illustrated poem #illustrated poetry #climate anxiety #eco anxiety #anxiety #writers on tumblr #writing #cat #dishes

[raggedyfink]

As Mother Earth determined

Aeons ago

We are alive

As nature is alive

We were made to be beautiful

In spirit

And how we decorate

In how we dance

How we speak

And most of all

How we love and nurture

We are one

As the great bison

The pine trees

And down to the insects

And even after we die

Nature does not forget that

For as we decay we return to

Our Mother Earth

And once all is done with that

Flowers sprout and bloom

To mark and remember who

We all are

From the ancestors

To everyone who one day has

To return to Mother Earth

And see their ancestors

In the Spirit World once more

#mine #gothic poetry #my poem #dark academia #darkest academia #gothic academia #indigenous #ecopunk #punk poetry #anarcho punk #goth poetry #eco goth #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark acadamia quotes #dark academic aesthetic #green academia

[yojfull]

Day 1: Heartstopper Tumblr Prompt Week

Each day this week, I'm going to post a poem that is inspired by a quote and the daily prompt. These will be cross-posted to AO3 and Instagram

Out

Coach Singh: You don't owe them that information, ok?

Coming out makes it sound

Like a one time thing,

A declaration and you're done,

Like a sort of wedding.

In truth, it's a process,

Happening with each new space,

Deciding how much to share

In each different place.

Sometimes the door

is thrown open wide,

Sometimes you linger

Behind it and hide

You owe no one your story,

There is no one right way.

And treasure the moments

When you are free to be gay.

#heartstopper #heartstopperpromptweek #poetry #queer poetry #fountain pen #twsbi eco #leuchtturm1917 #120g paper

[bibliophilerepository]

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative – the reason people tell stories and have told stories from the beginning of time.

Umberto Eco, Six Walks in the Fictional Wood

#bookish #books & libraries #book quotes #umberto eco #dark academia #light academia #writers and poets #poetry #fiction #writers on tumblr

[samw3000]

Grateful

Energized by the sun. I runThrough fields of lavenderLarkspur and wildflowersKissing tulips, daffodils and irisesI converse with aphids, slugs and snailsGladly, they share tales of the UniverseBy planting my hands in the dirtIn silence, I connect Listening to Mother EarthAnd when the day winds downBefore the moon and stars blanket meI sing praises to the sun Photo by Remi Antunes on Unsplash ©…

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#climate action #Connection with Nature #Earth Spirituality #Earth System Science #Eco-Poetry #Environmentalism #Free Verse #Gaia hypothesis #gratitude #nature poem #poem #poetry

[offical-dino-squad-fan-account]

Roleswap AU where Moinaham is the "reject moderninity return to dino" and Veloci is the underpaid teacher

#Veloci finds out his students got dinoed and is like wait that can happen #he teachers english poetry is his favorite unit #he runs the school GSA and caruso is the student head #he gets stuck in detention every time fiona is caught breaking a rule #ooooo so much content #and moinaham would totally convince people to be dinos through like psuedo eco friendly memes #like swarms of people dinotizing themselves #so many thoughts #dino squad #victor veloci #live from the lighthouse

[wellntruly]

BENEDICTION - ★★★★½

A crushingly sad prose film about anti-war poet Siegfried Sassoon and half the gay literati of shellshocked interwar Britain turning to each other in hospitals and drawing rooms alternatively and going

Was really trying to be my own Robert Graves here—“for de Lawd’s sake honey don’t overdo it!”—but…! Full review and I don’t know, historio-musings? here, of the poetic, catty, heartbroken Sassoon film I’ve been waiting for one year plus nine. Oh Terence Davies, we’re really in it now!

#Benediction #Terence Davies #the first paragraph of this is like my version of Umberto Eco’s beginning to The Name of the Rose #if you can get through that and want more #then you are the reader for this piece #Siegfried Sassoon #Dr. W.H.R. Rivers #Wilfred Owen #Robbie Ross #Ivor Novello #Stephen Tennant #the First World War #poetry #Wellntruly's Watch Log

[fragilityisavirtue]

Umberto Eco.

#umberto eco #la meccanica dei ricordi #ricordo #ricordi #memories #poesiaitaliana #poetry

[somebogwitch]

Should I be Writing at a Time Like This?

Some thoughts on creative work while the world burns

#writing #me #poetry #tiktok #writeblr #writers #writers on tumblr #eco anxiety #burn out