Environmental Voices: Poem

 

Environmental Voices

I.

The most beautiful music

Is the kind nature has been playing.

There is summer rain on leaves,

And a creek over stones.

Laugh of two Rosie Spoonbills

At sunset telling funny jokes.

Music of playful wind,

Dancing through tall grass,

And the distance owl that oohs for us.

Crickets’ songs on dark nights

Are the best voices at twilights.

Let’s celebrate Earth sounds

That does not come from speakers

But birds before sunrise.

Our Earth is blessed by songs

That nature always echoes.

II.

Nature full of hidden voices.

A river flowing over stones.

Birds greeting the forest with gentle songs.

Rain falling softly during storms.

Ocean waves meeting the store

Beneath the playful wind,

And leaves rustling high in the woodland canopy.

Each sound tells a different story.

Some soothe the heart,

Others clear the tired mind.

Environmental sound wakes up and keeps

The feeling we forgot was there to exist.

Let nature lead

Throughout its changing music rhymes.

Follow the creeks,

Wander green forests

For a few joyful moments.

Stay and listen to buzzing bees

And rest beneath the trees.

III.

Notice how noise of the world

Soften your heart.

With nature’s musical art.

Let the Earth bring a little more peace

Into your summer Sunday day breeze.

Tomshinsky@2026