Today is Earth Day, so time to write odes or any other praise poem for the Earth. Write to your mother. She cradled you into this life and will carry your ashes into the next eon.
Of course William Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” is a famous example. For more inspiration, read W. Todd Kaneko’s “Where the Sky Meets the Earth.”
But like any mother, the Earth was a lover first. Flirt a little. Write her a sex poem. The photo below may provide you the impetus.
And here is the origin of Earth Day because we all need creation stories. For a final prompt, write your own origin story. Make yourself a planet. What lives within you, orbits you moonlike, and holds you in place?
Good luck!
