For Thee, Dear Earth's Creator

 PAD Challenge day 22: Write a nature poem.

For Thee, Dear Tree

For Thee, Dear Bud

For Thee, Dear Seed

For Thee, Dear Bird 

and Brook...

For Thee, Dear Lord...

For The Beauty of the Earth

For thee, dear tree that spreads thy root-webbed skein

Beneath our feet, to drink from darksome spring

While overhead thy leafy mezzanine

Spills shadow-rooms fit for beggar and king

For thee, dear bud, that cups a wondrous loom

Where none can witness nature’s steadfast law

Until thy broken seal reveals the bloom

And steals our breath, ten-thousand times, with awe

For thee, dear seed, of grand potential

A miracle within a speck-sized brood

Yet, from these origins so miniscule

A feast unfolds; earth’s table groans with food

For thee, dear bird and brook and butterfly

And buzzing bee in petal-portico

For hills and plains that roll out to the sky

In tides of green and gold and indigo

For Thee, dear Lord, that didst entrust earth’s heart

To be cared for and tended by mankind

I humbly vow to try to do my part

To labour well, with future-kin in mind

© Janet Martin

Isa.6:3

And they were calling to one another:

 "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory."

Psalm 24:1

The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; 

the world, and they that dwell therein.