The Summer Noosphere Poem by Robert Ronnow

Wet nights, warm days are what we want in the summer
      noosphere.
Man's mind one with weather.
If this is true, life is good, or will be good.
Can I be encouraged that my sons will find mystery on
      the planet
as I did?

How sweet the slow spring! May already and the
      canopy not out yet.
Woods quiet all winter.
Now I can't distinguish the many bird songs from where
      I sit.
Red maple flowers and first sugar maple leaves are, to
      me, the Christ child
that's been coming.

The ancient poems and the new make the 1/10 inch of
      annual topsoil
from carbon dioxide loading.
As a humanist I want everyone pursuing happiness; as a
      naturalist
I sometimes pray for man's destruction. As a rationalist I
      admit
I lack data.

O to play slow and sure, even when the tune is fast.
      Inside an aquifer
of love for the audience.
Not to fear or even necessarily obey the changing wind's
direction. Being here I breathe and make the
      atmosphere as seen
from outer space.

The song of the world will often take you far from
      yourself. There
will be no self. How will you know yourself?
By knowing thyme and dandelion, the blue jay from the
      hawk,
the heron in its swamp, black cherries and the one pear
      at the junction of the trails.
They are yourself.