Grating

Speech

That’s

Raucous and shrill

Is likely to

Develop ill will in

Everyone who hears it;

Not so many are going

To cheer it.

Cultural anthropology

Discovering an

Individual’s dissimilar ways, and

Finding them

Far from our own, can

Easily lead to a

Reactive haze,

Evoking competition. We

Need to see and to understand

That here ‘better’ has no position.

Thank you, Michell G., for emphasizing this important concept.

Bending the carpenter’s square

Noting the context

Of this common word

Relates it to something, but

Maybe since frequent

Adjustments occur, our own

Lens can become, through empathy, blurred.

Rescue workers

Memorials

Of a lasting kind

Name those

Unknown to

Many minds, while

Encouraging all

Not to forget those

To whom we owe a debt.

Home again

Sleek

And silver they

Leap

Majestically

On, anxious to reach their

Natal stream to spawn.

Earth's outerwear

Laid over the entire globe,

In all its rocky glory, is

This layer of

Huge, major plates,

Of a fascinating ancient story.

Sima and sial crust materials

Play their parts magnificently,

Heaving and shifting through

Eons of force,

Reshaping the

Earth with intensity.

Thinking with love and concern for those in Mexico affected by Thursday’s earthquake and Hurricane Katia. 

Bird beginnings

Enclosed in shells, embryos

Grow well, then break out in weeks,

Guided by beaks.