poem “Earth was Crying”, a poem about how a desert land can get a torrential downpour of rain for months, almost as if the earth os crying, By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems Visions were Justified, Excuses for Skipping Work and Earth was Crying at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 3/11/16 (from a Canon Power Shot).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems Visions were Justified, Excuses for Skipping Work and Earth was Crying at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 3/11/16 (from a Nikon CooPix S7000).

Earth was
Crying
Janet Kuypers
2/18/16
As my
footsteps fell
to these
parched patches
of desert land,
the arid air
heaved
heavy.
Which is when
the Earth exhaled
and cried,
as it rained
nearly daily
for months.
When it wasn’t
raining,
the sky
hid us
from the sun
by blanketing
this tortured town
in a grey haze.
After I arrived,
the Earth
was crying.
Though I try,
it must
have known
that all
my tears
were not
enough
to replenish
this Earth
alone.

my hand to an anim of jkchair