Sands of connection

Issue #82 of your inbox poetry magazine

The sands from
arid lands have traveled
far, just to show how intricately
connected our lovely
planet is.

A little while back it rained where I live. Not just here, but in other parts of North-Western Europe, too. As it does more often. This time, when the rain had stopped, and everything was drying up again, it left behind a rust-brown powdery coating. It’s something that does happen now and then, when the atmospheric circumstances are just right. The rains wash down Sahara sand, which is transported northward by favorable winds and high and low-pressure areas. It shows us how connected our beautiful planet is. How much it is one system, without borders. Our home. Our key identifying feature: we are from planet earth.

We should take better care of her.

In the photo: Sahara sands gathered on the body of a hybrid vehicle.

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Something to listen to

This week, we published a new episode of our podcast. In it, we speak with Larissa and Kelly who make Poetry Trapper Keeper. Listen now:

Do you know there is actually a podcast called How to Save a Planet? It is very much worth listening to, and you might pick up a trick or two to treat our lovely home a bit better:

And to help you create your bubble, or accompany you on (un)important tasks, or just because you want to hear an eclectic collection of tunes, here’s our March playlist:

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Poetry elsewhere

“We are nothing more than the loving embrace of otherness”, such a wonderful image in a strong poem by David from Tumbleweed words. It’s from his poem on route to asylum. The second one in this issue of his newsletter, please, is just as strong.

Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. Something like that. When you are just over, let’s say 30, you know that those beautiful plans were simply just that. Maybe you first need to catch up on some sleep. After reading the poem Perfect Plans by Punit Thakkar.

Arizona has a poet that makes poetry celebrating the beauty of that desert state. If I could, I would nominate her to be the poet laureate for that state. Her poems make me want to travel there. Always. Like these three: Moon-Rainbows and a Garden at Dawn.