Write a pastoral poem (a Shepherd or shepherdess on nature and love) (on earth day, a poem about loving a planet)
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baya is floating
the vertical fields
she sings songs that make
the shmardue wander close
they prance in out round
her feet bare and bright
with golden sand
she doesn’t know earth
she doesn’t long for verdant lush leaf
she knows sunsets last for days
she loves sleeping in the sunlight
she never uses her grav belt
she isn’t scared of flight
i suspect she would be a fighter
if there was a war over these fields
or the black green iceland
whose melting in the sun
is all the river we know
i hope her whole life is this
wandering and learning her stars
rooting into the precious soil
forgetting in her bones the earth i loved
that bloody miracle
leave it to the men
baya is spinning again
upside down, walking the lavender moon
which aya wants to name vula
the earth children run towards and after her
different against gravity
already orienting towards her center
the only thing i want is her safety
for her to be free from our lineage
for us to be far enough away
that we can’t hear the
celebrations of war, the bloodfall
the only thing i want is her
dancing through the air