Limón:Yeah. I think that I really wanted to get across our love of this planet. And I wanted to make sure that that was built in to the lines of the poem. Our wonder, our curiosity. That we are a ...

“Anybody on planet Earth.” No Martians allowed. To enter, write a haiku that is a message to Mars. Haikus, of course, are three-line poems with a specific syllable count -- five syllables in ...

If you care about nature or protecting the planet, we’ve got the competition for you. Greenpeace’s first Poems for the Planet competition, in collaboration with National Poetry Day, invites you to put ...

"The outreaching that the poem was doing was just as important as pointing back to the beauty and power and urgency of our own planet." Limón writes of the "mysteries below our sky: the whale ...

"Eventually, what made the poem come together was realizing that in pointing toward other planets, stars and moons, we are also recognizing the enormous gift that is our planet Earth. To point ...

But rarely are we given space to connect to our feelings and experience of our environment. Poems for the Planet was an opportunity for fun in a sometimes scary and serious landscape of ...

Gardens and poems remind us how to admire, steward and participate in our own lives and in the life of the planet, even a planet it seems we’ve irrevocably damaged. And because even as the ...