ENVIRONMENTAL Poem: Seasons, by Laeci Hall

The environment is a fight between good and bad, somedays we have fires that cause pollution and other days we have a new recycling solution.

The environment is crumbling beneath us as I write this, the ice walls are melting and the earth is being covered in trash, all of it affects our evolution.

The earth has more and more storms that are spreading like rapid fire in California and South Carolina, the flooding has risen in southern states, it seems the environment can be unfriendly.

However, there is always good with the bad and there are always beautiful things within this planet like the flowers we see in fields, the big willow trees and all the neat things make me feel differently.

Nature is happening before us each day whether it’s a sunny baseball game, a rainy day while cuddled up watching a movie, or it’s a snow day throwing snow balls at the kids.

The events in the environment depend on the person, we can be grateful and see it for what it is or we can hide from the mother nature going on around us, not recognizing how important it is.

The windy days when you fly a kite in the sky with your children smiling, the days when your dog tracks mud back in the house from running around with the zoomies, and the ice cream truck music you wait to hear on a nice day makes me think of what’s around us,

Everyone likes to talk about how our environment is horrible and we need reformation because there is so much wrong with our air, food, water, and waste.

I am going to spin a positive perspective you may have not chased,

In summer, the chalk on the sidewalks, the bubbles in the air, the popsicles I can taste, The kids running around, going to the city pool or beach, on a floatie in the water feeling misplaced.

In Spring, we hide our easter eggs in the green grass, we have rainy showers and comfortable
days,

We see the pink sunset, go fishing for the first of the season, and see new baby animals at first graze.

In Winter, the snow falls and ice creates icicles on the gutters that kids find and eat to themselves,

The snow ball fights, snow angels, and winter brings joy when we have to hide the elf on the shelves.

The fall brings leaves falling as we walk, the leave piles created for us all to jump in.

My kids playing football, soccer, and basketball, fall brings fun and sports to win.

See, the environment is all these seasons and how they all come each year to us.

If you are not understanding yet as we have talked, then we have nothing further to discuss.