Up to Earth: An Ecopoesy Chapbook
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Retiring in 2004 after serving as a writer/editor for business and government entities for about 45 years, he took up anew a long-time desire to write, and write. A book of fiction aimed at young men that is part fantasy, science fiction and autohistory, is due out in the spring 2013. In 2009, he launched the online Latino literary magazine, Somos en escrito, dedicated to promoting literary endeavors among Chicano and Latino writers and providing a handy resource of American-based literature by writers of Hispanic origin in all genre and about all things for teachers at all levels of education.
This chapbook is his offering to creation itself, all life as we find it around us in the most unlikely places and things. The writings urge us in a quiet way to take heed of our surroundings, dwell on them, and preserve them for others, our childrens children, to explore and love.
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Up to Earth - Armando Rendón
Up to Earth
An Ecopoesy Chapbook
IMAGE1%20copy.jpgArmando Rendón
Copyright © 2013 by Armando Rendón.
Front cover art by Edel Romay (romayedel@aol.com)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2013901462
ISBN: Softcover 978-1-4633-4973-8
Ebook 978-1-4633-4972-1
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Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Foreword
A blessing
A Garden Tale
A reflection of rain
A rose is first a bud
Autumn drama
Crescent moon
Day’s Trilogy
El clima se mejorará
The climate is bound to improve
Flowers in my garden
Fog Attack
Half-light
Having slipped on a mossy stone
How lavish nature is…
How much we miss of nature’s creativity
Indian Rock
It, too
Just wait for spring
La luna acercandose
As the moon draws nearer
Let the dahlias be
Looking out to the back garden
Planting
Scatter life
Signs of spring
Standing by a leptospermum
Summerscape
Taking to the path
Taproot
Templo
Temple
Temporada para todo
A season for everything
That green slip of a thing
Ugly chrysalis!
Upon meeting a garden
Water flows serene
Zarzamora
Blackberry
Wee tree
Wee Tree appeared previously in
riverbabble, an anthology of poetry and
prose.
Dedication
To lovers and protectors
of nature, who see
how human life
is
or can be
one
with all creation.