<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style:italic">Thanks for passing this invitation on to others:</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style:italic"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div><div style="text-align:center">Songs and Poems to Honor the Earth</div><div style="text-align:center">Tuesday, April 17, 6-8 pm</div>
<div style="text-align:center">Buffalo Street Books</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="text-align:center">Poetry can often express what our hearts want to say better than trumpets. <br></div>
</span></span><div style="text-align:center"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="text-align:center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">The Center for Environmental Sustainability (CES) invites all ages to bring their favorite songs and/or poems to share - their own or by others - at an open-mic gathering at Buffalo St. Books on Tuesday, April 17, from 6-8 pm. </span></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"></span></span><div style="text-align:center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="text-align:center">If you can't come, send us your songs or poems, and we'll put them on the CES website for all to share <<a href="http://cesithaca.org">cesithaca.org</a>> - and make everyday an Earth Day in our lives.</div>
<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:bold"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration:underline">Just a taste _</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration:underline">______________________________________________________________________________</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><u></u></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><u></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(14,119,74)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">Michael Jackson [various versions, all wonderful! don't be put off by the ad at the beginning...]:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(14,119,74)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"> Earth Song,  <<a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=dK_EJqat1sc&feature=related">youtube.com/watch?v=dK_EJqat1sc&feature=related</a>>; </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><br>
</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(14,119,74)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">Planet Song <<a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=vvlUw7lGYVQ&feature=related">youtube.com/watch?v=vvlUw7lGYVQ&feature=related</a>>; </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><br>
</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(14,119,74)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">Earth Day Song <<a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=acPvmXJrrek&feature=related">youtube.com/watch?v=acPvmXJrrek&feature=related</a>>; </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><br>
</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(14,119,74)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">Earth Song with Lyrics <<a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=4YchmaYZXI4&feature=related">youtube.com/watch?v=4YchmaYZXI4&feature=related</a>></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><br>
</span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">4th Graders' Poetry for Earth Day <<a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=OiwHqSH_O3A">youtube.com/watch?v=OiwHqSH_O3A</a>></span></span></p>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">Earth Poems by Jessica, Age 6 <<a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=4MaY-U0s_7U&feature=related">youtube.com/watch?v=4MaY-U0s_7U&feature=related</a>><br>
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">Nature's Wonderful, by Ravi </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:18px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">Sathasivam</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"> <<a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=gRgohCH5kXc&feature=related">youtube.com/watch?v=gRgohCH5kXc&feature=related</a>></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span></p><p class="printables" style="color:rgb(0,0,102)">
Butterfly Poem & Song for Earth Day by Mama Mia Love <<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(14,119,74)"><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=9HFiF6ViEe8">youtube.com/watch?v=9HFiF6ViEe8</a>></span></p>
<p class="printables" style="color:rgb(0,0,102)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(14,119,74)">Earth Day Song <<a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=gHJfHdfSUR0&feature=related">youtube.com/watch?v=gHJfHdfSUR0&feature=related</a>></span></p>
<p class="printables" style="color:rgb(0,0,102)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(14,119,74)">The Perfect Earth Day <<a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=fdjNrFBex5I&feature=related">youtube.com/watch?v=fdjNrFBex5I&feature=related</a>></span></p>
<p class="printables" style="color:rgb(0,0,102)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(14,119,74)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">C.P.Cavafy's <b>poem</b> '<b>Ithaca</b>', recited by Sir Sean Connery and with music <b>...</b> of <b>poetry</b> <b>...</b><br>
<cite style="color:rgb(14,119,74);font-style:normal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n3n2Ox4Yfk">www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n3n2Ox4Yfk</a></cite></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate"><b><font><u style><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(0,153,0)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">Earth Day</span></span></span></span></u></font></b><font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(0,153,0)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><br>
</span></span></span><b><font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(0,153,0)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">I am the Earth<br>
And the Earth is me.<br>Each blade of grass,<br>Each honey tree,<br>Each bit of mud,<br>And stick and stone<br>Is blood and muscle,<br>Skin and bone.<br><br>And just as I<br>Need every bit<br>Of me to make<br>My body fit,<br>
So Earth needs<br>Grass and stone and tree<br>And things that grow here<br>Naturally.<br><br>That's why we<br>Celebrate this day.<br>That's why across<br>The world we say:<br>As long as life,<br>As dear, as free,<br>
I am the Earth<br>And the Earth is me.<br><br></span></span></span></font><i><font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(0,153,0)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">Jane Yolen<br>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small">Earth Day Copyright © 1995 by Jane Yolen.<br>First appeared in THE THREE BEARS HOLIDAY RHYME BOOK, published by Harcourt.<br>Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.</span></span></span></span></font></i></b></font></span></p>
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</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(14,119,74)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><h2 style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(84,81,153)">
<strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">Earth Folk</span></span></strong></h2></span></span></p><p style><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">by </span></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">Walter de la Mare</span></span></em></p>
<table width="100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style><div align="left" style><p class="printables" style="color:rgb(0,0,102)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">The cat she walks on padded claws,<br>
The wolf on the hills lays stealthy paws,<br>Feathered birds in the rain-sweet sky<br>At their ease in the air, flit low, flit high.</span></span></p><p class="printables" style="color:rgb(0,0,102)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">The oak's blind, tender roots pierce deep,<br>
His green crest towers, dimmed in sleep,<br>Under the stars whose thrones are set<br>Where never prince hath journeyed yet.</span></span></p><p class="printables" style="color:rgb(0,0,102)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><h2 style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(84,81,153)">
<strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">Influence of Nature</span></span></strong></h2></span></p><p style><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">by Wordsworth</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><em></em></span></span></p>
<p class="printables" style="color:rgb(0,0,102)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">Therefore am I still<br>A lover of the meadows and the woods<br>
And mountains, and of all that we behold<br>From this green earth; of all the mighty world<br>Of eye and ear, both what they half create<br>And what perceive; well pleased to recognize<br>In nature, and the language of the sense,<br>
The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse,<br>The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul,<br>Of all my moral being.</span></span></p><p class="printables" style="color:rgb(0,0,102)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><h2 style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(84,81,153)">
<strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">The Woods and Streams</span></span></strong></h2></span></p><p style><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">Author Unknown</span></span></p>
<p class="printables" style="color:rgb(0,0,102)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">"The woods were made for hunters of dreams, <br>
The streams for fishers of song; <br>To those who hunt thus, go gunless for game, <br>The woods and the streams belong."</span></span></p><p></p><p></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">Lost  </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><u></u></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><u></u></span></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">
by David Wagoner</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><u></u></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><u></u></span></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"> Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you</span></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><u></u></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><u></u></span></span></p>

</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><u></u></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><u></u></span></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">
Must ask permission to know it and be known.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><u></u></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><u></u></span></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><u></u></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><u></u></span></span></p>

</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">I have made this place around you.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><u></u></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><u></u></span></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">
If you leave it you may come back again, saying Here.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><u></u></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><u></u></span></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">No two trees are the same to Raven.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><u></u></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><u></u></span></span></p>

</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">No two branches are the same to Wren.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><u></u></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><u></u></span></span></p>
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If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><u></u></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><u></u></span></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><u></u></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><u></u></span></span></p>

</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">Knows where you are. You must let it find you.</span></span></p>
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