Ethics, Values, & Sustainability
Environmental Strategy & Sustainability
Systems Thinking & Sustainable Businesses
Last Updated 05/30/2006
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GROUP 5
Snowflakes are a happy molecules
They look like water when it experiences love
look at all those millions of unique patterns
how intricate each one is,
how separate yet unified as one collective snowstorm
Amelia George
I bought an organic banana today
They are carried in the dorm’s café
And it had a slightly darker hue
I wondered ‘what had I become accustomed too?
I’m used to the brighter, faker look
Food colored like pictured in a children’s book And while the riches of the earth have such brilliant hues In shopping falsified colors should not be our cues
Julia Glad
The road less traveled
Dark and difficult to navigate
Great obstacles impede
Great rewards await
Great heroes are born
They call them revolutionaries, visionaries
Why must they be so unique and rare?
Shifting the scale of greatness
Making imagination and progressivism the norm
Creating, nurturing sustainability
Kevin White
The Circus
The jokers, the players, the misfits, the masters,
are preparing for another show.
As they set up their tents, muddled with color,
I, too, set up mine.
The distinctive pieces are difficult to replace,
gathered after years of isolation and segregation.
Together they form a bond as strong
as the “World’s Largest Rubber Band.”
A stitching intertwined tightly, enough
to prevent any air from their pasts to escape.
Soon the spectators will penetrate the flaps,
each adding to the noise of conversation
billowing up and out the small hole at the top.
The crowd’s roaring laughter will rattle
the walls, testing their strength.
Some parts of the tents are old
and will know how to receive the applause,
the other newly added pieces will stretch
uncomfortably over the crowd’s heads.
Our lights will shine bright on their faces,
not to blind. They are already blinded,
there only to be amused, not to appreciate.
The people on the outside don’t know,
it ain’t easy.
The tent goes up, but the tent comes down,
all they see is the show.
Dustin Green
OUR LOVE
If my love for you is your love for me
Then you and I are connected infinitely.
The truth of the wise cannot answer the hows and whys
Of my loves only existence, exists in your eyes
Brian Bengry
A definition of a dream
is a stray from reality
its when we defer
the way things are
and drift into an unknown world.
Rebecca Wolfson
Forgive you?
How could I?
When I have given myself to you?
There’s nothing left I have to give.
Not even forgiveness.
Nicole Hirschfelder
Sweet Secret
Take stolen glances, but please
don't stare
Don't get caught
(Or we could just scream it out)
All bottled up, it emerges in
a constant smile
Rachel Ogden
Pearly is my friend’s cat
This elderly beauty is 19 years old, an elegantly dignified cat
her paws look eerily like an old woman’s hands
she has arthritis, bony features, and her eyes water
Her hobbies include sleeping, meowing, and jumping onto the counter
I wouldn’t be surprised if she was my grandmother in another life
Amelia George
I want it all
clean water, vast forests
electricity, plumbing
an ozone layer, a volvo
how selfish
Laura Muskatevc
Dead to the world until...
The phone rings.
I wake up.
Where are you?
Oh, late for work.
I dress fast
And start my trek.
Another Monday begins.
And so it goes...
Mary Goddeeris
My sleeves are perfumed
By the faint fragrance of the plant
The coolness of midnight
With the light mist and heavy clouds
I am alone drinking with the moon
Lok Sze Chan
Ceiling flowing? No.
Interesting hand inspection? No.
All I see is you
and I'm tripping out of my mind.
Rachel Ogden
