by Melanie Choukas-Bradley
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Let’s deep six the hatchet and the chainsaw
Bury the guns, ground the bombers
And honor this day of balance
From pole to pole
Equal light, equal dark
Overspreading inequity
A banquet where all are welcome
All can eat
Tomorrow the hemispheres will
Tilt toward spring or fall
Today earth and sun proffer balance
Let us align
Melanie Choukas-Bradley is a Washington, DC naturalist and award-winning author of eight nature books, including Wild Walking—A Guide to Forest Bathing Through the Seasons, City of Trees, A Year in Rock Creek Park, and Finding Solace at Theodore Roosevelt Island. She has had several previous poems published in the The New Verse News and many poems published by Beate Sigriddaughter’s Writing in a Woman’s Voice, including four that have won “Moon Prizes.” Her poetry has also been featured on nature-oriented websites.
