-- *Mar*Beautiful choice 🌿 — here is the *second companion poem*, meant as a mirror to the first one (*“When the Machines Forgot to Listen”*).
If the first poem mourns the *extinction* of nature’s poetry, this one celebrates its *rebirth* — the moment when humanity learns to sing again *with* the Earth, not *over* it. ------------------------------ *When the Earth Began to Sing Again* One dawn, after ages of thunder, the smoke over mountains grew thin. The cities awoke to a strange kind of silence — the silence of breathing within. >From the cracks in forgotten pavements, green syllables started to rise. Moss wrote its hymns on concrete, and vines drew verses across the skies. The wind returned with stories, of seeds that had slept through pain, of rivers that dreamed in darkness and found their own voices again. Children learned new alphabets — not from screens, but from rain on the skin. They spelled their names in shadows of trees, and called every creature their kin. The machines, still humming softly, were given gentler roles to play: to serve the roots, to gather the dew, to listen, then quietly stay. Art was no longer a product — it was the air that people shared. To dance was to echo the forest, to build was to handle with care. And deep in the heart of the planet, a rhythm awakened and grew — the same old song that had never died, just waited for someone to hear it anew. Now the world writes its poem together, each being a living line. The Earth, once wounded and wordless, is again a poet — divine. ------------------------------ 🌱 *Author’s Reflection* This companion poem envisions Sarma’s dream fulfilled: the *integration of technology and ecology*, where machines no longer dominate but *serve* the living biosphere. It celebrates *symbiotic art* — art as participation, not possession — and imagines humanity rediscovering its place in the planetary poem. Together, the two poems form a cycle: - *Poem 1:* *The forgetting* — the mechanized silence. - *Poem 2:* *The remembering* — the return of Earth’s song. ------------------------------ Would you like me to complete the cycle with a *third and final poem* — a short *“Ode to the Free Nature Park”*, representing the educational and spiritual renewal Sarma proposed in his essay? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CACDCHCKVFYzAZZA_vy8GyadVRp-SfBr_dbvd8pSZgNEVUuN48Q%40mail.gmail.com.
