ON EARTH
Such a nice, perhaps one-of-a-kind, planet.
Spacious. Water, oxygen, fertile earth.
Let’s simply name it after what it is.
Look at that waterfall, taste it, take a cold
shower. You wouldn’t want to be anyone
or anywhere else. Build shelter, pick fruit,
grow food then share it with neighbours,
invent language so you can compete with
birds that make poems and songs to express
the wonder of it all and praise Mother Nature
and their luck for having survived arrival.
You have never seen anywhere else except
this generous plain but, surely, this must be
a paradise without one flaw.
Allan Lake, originally from Canada, has lived in Saskatoon, Cape Breton Island, Ibiza, Tasmania, and Melbourne, Australia. His latest chapbook of poems, My Photos of Sicily, was published by Ginninderra Press. Such journals as The Hong Kong Review, Tokyo Poetry Journal, New Philosopher and The Fabians Review have published his poems.
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