#2320 -- FROM THE WINDOW OF A SUBMERSIBLE

 

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FROM THE WINDOW OF A SUBMERSIBLE

poem for David Attenborough’s 100^th birthday

 

his voice is nature

 

it’s where you can’t, you’d never go

 

some say red in tooth and claw

and that’s rich coming from

 

from a hide or on the trail

 

all this unwitting

or so seems

and we come to understand

 

wonder how far we will get

 

an intimate bubble world is

and everywhere a question

 

what sound does a platypus make?

how did these molecules get together?

what else is still down there?

 

there isn’t the time to wait for an answer

 

he’s off to catch a dragon

colour is communication

as any old sun shows

 

everywhere wonders

the story to tell

 

listens, asks, observes

 

some trees are still here down to him

they’ve released him in the wild

 

of course it’s only we can see

he rescues the world from us