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Poem from page 54 in the online book Nature ~ IO: Let\u2019s Survive, Not Die! Read online the PDF version (Computers & Smartphones) for free here: https:\/\/www.nature-iq.com\/download\/NatureIQ%20ebook1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n Mother Earth: living our human way<\/strong> some people metaphorically call earth Words by\u00a0 ~Keith Alan Hamilton~ Poem from page 54 in the online book Nature ~ IO: Let\u2019s Survive, Not Die! Read online the PDF version (Computers & Smartphones) for free here: https:\/\/www.nature-iq.com\/download\/NatureIQ%20ebook1.pdf Mother Earth: living our human way letting go of the metaphorical mother some people metaphorically call earth mother, as in \u201cMother Earth\u201d or even in a more broader … Continue reading “Mother Earth: living our human way”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poemsbookone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nature-iq.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nature-iq.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nature-iq.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature-iq.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature-iq.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature-iq.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature-iq.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nature-iq.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature-iq.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature-iq.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nletting go of the metaphorical mother<\/em><\/p>\n
\nmother, as in \u201cMother Earth\u201d
\nor even in a more broader
\nall-encompassing sense, \u201c Mother Nature\u201d
\nnow in Greek mythology
\nthis mother nature was called, \u201cGaia\u201d
\nno matter what analogy used
\nfor some, the earth is portrayed
\nas if to be the giver and sustainer of life \u00a0~
\nwell if I may say so,
\nas a mother,
\nas a mother
\nlike my real mother,
\nthe earth as a mother
\nfalls miserably short in the comparison
\n\u2018cause my mother, although
\ngenetically embodied
\nand socially embedded with human frailty
\nas a mom and a woman who has faced head on
\nmany ills and obstacles set before her in life
\nas the mom who helped give me life
\nas the mom who helped sustain my life
\nwho never, ever once allowed anything
\naffect or after undergoing the effect
\nof conditions thrust upon her
\neither directly or indirectly done to her
\nnever, ever altered her role
\nas the giver and sustainer of my life
\nmy mother has never, ever once
\ntried to bring harm to me or to
\nthose daughters and sons of other mothers
\nmy mother is a hero, even before
\nI realized she would earn
\nsuch an honor beholden to my eyes
\nbeing felt way more
\nthan some archetype of mind
\nemotionalized within my heart
\noh mother earth, mother nature
\nthe one known as this goddess Gaia,
\nI can\u2019t realistically or genuinely say or feel
\nnor conceptualize metaphorically
\neven begin to compare my Mother
\nmy Mom or my Grandmother
\nas if\u00a0 ~ \u00a0somehow\u00a0 ~\u00a0 similar with you
\nhowever oh earth, well as if
\nyou could actually hear and listen to me
\nI\u2019ve come to know all too well
\nnot only subjectively,
\nbut objectively, I need to understand you
\nconceptualize beyond
\nthe metaphors cast upon and over you
\nI must lift off the veil that shrouds
\nyour role, your purpose, your function
\nwithin the scheme of all else
\nif not only for me, my children
\nand their children
\nalso for humanity as a species
\nto be able to go on living
\nfor us humans to be able to sustain
\nand preserve our kind into the future
\nI must see you naked before me
\nthe best I humanly can
\nwithout predisposition
\nbeing entrapped, ensnared
\nby any analogy, symbolism or belief
\nsubtly fogging, biasing
\nor impeding my judgment
\nas to clearly seeing, perceiving
\nand fully envisioning
\nwhat you are now or may come to be
\nwhether as to your worth
\nor out of mere necessity to detach from you
\n~\u00a0 oh earth, despite your changes
\nuncovered in the past or yet to happen
\neven if drastically disruptive changes
\nthat may occur within or upon you
\nlike rapid and destabilizing climate change,
\nwith violent weather, as well as global plagues,
\nsuper-volcanoes or killer asteroids from the sky,
\nearthquakes or tsunamis
\nor human born nuclear war or terrorism\u00a0 ~
\neven the arrival of unfriendly extraterrestrials, etc.
\nI hold no malice or blame against you
\nfor you know not what you do
\nas a planet or portion that is only a sub-system
\na dynamic part of a whole system
\nundergoing complex activities
\nthe holomovement as explained by Bohm,
\nrecurrent patterns of process
\nenergy\/matter
\nunfolding and enfolding
\ninteracting, interconnecting
\nand being interdependent as
\nthe living and the nonliving
\nthe animate and the inanimate
\nas manifested in the physical reality
\nwhich comprises in its totality\u00a0 ~ \u00a0Nature
\nnor earth, as I learn about you
\nand all else as aspects within Nature
\ndo I hold any malice for or blame
\nagainst my kind, the humankind
\n\u2018cause we evolved upon you through survival
\nsheer willpower we used, even while dying
\nno manual or guidebook to follow
\nonly living and trying
\nby way of self-production, variation
\ncooperation and adaptation
\neventually, attempting to pass on
\ninformation in the form of
\nknowledge and wisdom
\nas much as what was learned
\nfrom our struggle within thought
\ncomprehended or imagined along the way
\nto survive, we\u2019ve had to move on,
\nregardless of the happenings of the past
\nand yes at times,
\nin spite of how things were
\nmay have seemingly always been
\nwe\u2019ve had to let go of
\nour metaphors
\ntraditions, our symbolism
\nand our beliefs held so tightly
\nwith all their comforts
\nwe\u2019ve left them behind, forever
\nas nothing but memories of our past
\n~
\nyes one day, oh Mother Earth,
\nMother Nature, the Greek goddess Gaia
\nthe regulator of our human lives
\neven though,
\nin a metaphorically sense
\nyou are a poor
\nand inadequate mother to the humankind
\nholding us captive to your systemic ways
\nif humanity is going to survive, go on
\nwe\u2019ll have to free ourselves
\npartially or wholly from your
\narchetypical bondage
\nlike any loving mother
\nyou\u2019ll have to let us use our wings
\nto fly among and throughout the stars
\nthat expanded environment of Nature\u2019s totality holding out hope
\nwithin the human mind
\nat present littered with inhibition and guilt
\nyou must completely without remorse
\nlet us go\u00a0 ~
\nso finally we\u2019ll more fully learn
\nfrom the opportunity of having the chance
\nto move about unencumbered,
\nas an embryonic child
\ndetached at birth from the mother\u2019s womb
\nafter cutting the tie of the umbilical cord
\ncasting behind once and for all
\nthe hindrance preventing us \u00a0~
\nlimiting us from living our human way<\/p>\n
\nImage property of \u00a0~Keith Alan Hamilton~\u00a0 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"