EARTH DAY

I am Gaia, your Mother Earth

My greens golds, blues, pure chroma

Sustain your bewildered life

Your darkness throttles me

Your jigsaws pierce me 

Will you never end this strife?

I birthed you as you bloomed

I wrapped you in my lovelorn folds

You breathed in my watery placenta

You danced along my ripples

You lived cosily in my moulds

You ate, drank, slept, rose in songs

All in my silken wreathed sheath

In my shimmering grassy gold ---

You flew from azure to ether

Rejuvenated in my milk and water

Built your castles in airy space

All because I gave you home

And hearth to land here and stay ---

And now you ransack my plenitude

Ravage my gracious wealth and beatitude

Make my loving loam a wilderness

I am almost a weeping bald pate now

Shrivelled and withered living anyhow

Grown old well before my years

My ambrosia now a living hell

You make me limp with your Power-spell

Change before you hear your death knell

Every day is your Mother Earth Day

Preserve my bounty for you to live and stay!

SHORT BIO

Laksmisree Banerjee is a Multi-Award Winning Poet/ Author, Litterateur, practicing Radio & TV Vocalist and a Retd. University Professor of English and a Fmr. Vice Chancellor. An International Sr. Fulbright and Commonwealth Scholar, she is widely anthologised and published with Twelve Books of Poetry and several Academic and Research Publications.