Land of pink sky and blue sun, <br />green bed of swamps and marsh. <br />Monsters from another age <br />roam and dispel their wrath, <br />tyrannosaurus, brontosaurus, Woolly Mammoth. <br />Heat and flying things, <br />wing their way in an endless spring. <br /> <br />Land of grotesque and monstrous mould, <br />ever changing shapes behold. <br />Paradise with promise of future things, <br />filled with bellowing monstrous song, <br />teem with life, land and sea. <br />The stench of death hangs over thee. <br />Night’s darkness brings another day. <br /> <br />Land of cold and wintry white <br />moves southward slowly day and night. <br />Places hot, now white and cold, <br />creatures frozen in monstrous mould. <br />Land, pale, shadow of death, <br />now hangs over all. <br />None will escape deaths paw. <br /> <br />Marks on a sandy beach, <br />small with explicit air, <br />life begins again from there. <br />Life minute of crystal form, <br />changing by night and daily storm. <br />Life, small and microscopic, <br />crawls on beaches north and tropic. <br /> <br />Circle of form begins again, <br />from tiny and invisible germs. <br />Life on land and sea again teem. <br />Millions upon millions breeding frame. <br />World of blue and grass green hill. <br />The land before god <br />is teeming still.<br /><br />David Harris<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-land-before-god/
