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The, Greenest: Poem--Ever.
Poetry has been around, well...forever. But the green movement? Maybe since Silent Spring? The first Earth Day? The point is that there hasn't been enough time to develop a large body of eco-poems. So, until this genre develops, we have to delve into the past to find the greenest verses ever written. My nominee is "With Animals," by Walt Whitman:
I think I could turn and live with animals they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long, They do not sweat and whine about their condition; They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins; They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God. Not one is dissatisfied--not one is demented with the mania of owning things. Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago; Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth.
What eco-poems have moved you?