World Earth Day 2025: Earth Day, observed annually on April 22nd, stands as a global reminder of our responsibility towards the environment. It's a day dedicated to raising awareness about pressing environmental issues and inspiring action towards a sustainable future. Earth Day has evolved into a powerful platform for individuals, communities, and organizations to unite and champion environmental protection for the well-being of current and future generations.
These poems, along with countless others, serve as beacons of hope and inspiration, reminding us that we all have a role to play in creating a sustainable future. By embracing the messages conveyed by these long and short poems. Earth Day poems are more than just catchy lines; they are calls to action, and expressions of hope for a greener future.
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Theme for Earth Day 2025
"Our Power, Our Planet"
The Theme for Earth Day 2025 is "Our Power, Our Planet". This theme emphasizes the importance of renewable energy and calls for action to increase global clean energy use. It encourages individuals and communities to unite and advocate for renewable energy solutions.
Short Poems on Earth Day 2025
1. “Earth Day” – Jane Yolen
The world is not a gift, but a loan,
We borrow it from children we have never known.
Each tree, each flower, each bird in the sky—
Are whispers of Earth, not ours to buy.
2. “The World” – William Wordsworth
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
3. “This is the Earth” – Anonymous (Children’s Poem)
This is the Earth we live upon,
It gives us sun, and rain, and dawn.
Let’s keep it clean, and safe, and bright,
So all can share in its delight.
4. “A Thought on Earth Day” – Deborah Negron
Let us be wise in what we do,
Our Earth is precious, this is true.
We must not waste or let it die,
Let’s keep it safe for you and I.
5. “On Earth Day” – Siegfried Sassoon (adapted)
Let no man lay waste the Earth,
Lest we regret what once had worth.
For every field and sky so blue,
Is part of me, and part of you.
6. “The Earth Speaks” – Sonia Gupta
I am the soil beneath your feet,
The rivers, air, and forest sweet.
I cry in floods, I scream in storm,
Yet beg you still—please, reform.
7. “Earth Day Every Day” – John P. Read
Not just a day to plant a tree,
But one to change our legacy.
Recycle, care, renew, repair—
Show the Earth we’re truly fair.
8. “Nature’s Gift” – Emily Dickinson
A little madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King,
But let us not, in joy’s release,
Destroy the Earth’s enduring peace.
9. “The Planet’s Plea” – Kaitlyn Guenther
Hear me now, I speak in breeze,
In wilting crops and dying trees.
This planet cries, not out of spite—
But longing for your love and light.
10. “To the Earth” – Wendell Berry
The Earth is what we all have in common,
More than soil, more than mountain.
It is a story we all must tell—
If we treat it right, it will treat us well.
Long Poems on Earth Day 2025
1. “The Peace of Wild Things” – Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
2. “A Song of the Earth” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Earth is rich and kind and fair,
Her streams are full, her skies are blue.
She gives her treasures everywhere
To all who love and honor true.
Yet man has scarred her hills with greed,
And choked her air with burning need.
Let Earth Day come, a time to see,
The worth of peace and harmony.
3. “God’s Grandeur” – Gerard Manley Hopkins
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
4. “Earth Day Reflection” – Amanda McBride
We take and take, and never give,
Yet Earth still lets us breathe and live.
Her forests fall, her oceans cry,
Still we look on, and pass them by.
But now’s the time to change our way,
To honor Earth this special day.
Let every voice and hand unite,
And build a world that feels the light.
5. “Lines Written in Early Spring” – William Wordsworth
Through primrose tufts, in that green bower,
The periwinkle trailed its wreaths;
And ’tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.
The birds around me hopped and played,
Their thoughts I cannot measure:—
But the least motion which they made,
It seemed a thrill of pleasure.
If this belief from heaven be sent,
If such be Nature’s holy plan,
Have I not reason to lament
What man has made of man?
6. “Earth’s Voice” – Amara Silverstone
I gave you shade and you cut me down.
I gave you rain and you let me drown.
I fed you fruit, you spoiled my tree.
I gave you life—why won’t you see?
The time is now, the time is near,
To plant with love, not act from fear.
Let Earth Day mark a brand new start—
One born of soul, of mind, of heart.
7. “The World” – Henry Vaughan
I saw Eternity the other night,
Like a great ring of pure and endless light,
All calm, as it was bright;
And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years,
Driven by the spheres
Like a vast shadow moved; in which the world
And all her train were hurled.
8. “To Earth with Love” – Caroline Holmes
Oh Earth, so blue, so wide, so green,
With every shade and scene between.
You hold us gently, firm and true,
Yet what, dear Earth, have we done to you?
Your glaciers weep, your oceans choke,
Beneath our greed, your lungs we smoke.
But Earth Day comes—a chance to mend,
To vow anew to be your friend.
9. “The Earth” – Anne Brontë
I love the silent hour of night,
For blissful dreams may then arise,
Revealing to my charmed sight
What may not bless my waking eyes.
And then a glance of deep delight,
Like magic, flashes o’er my soul,
As if the world’s forgotten light
In one bright moment made me whole.
10. “For the Earth” – Emily Strong
Beneath the stars and warming sun,
The Earth gives life to everyone.
No bias, border, class, or race—
Just roots and sky and open space.
Yet we divide, consume, ignore,
And take until there’s nothing more.
So let this Earth Day rise anew—
With promises we’ll strive to do.
To walk with care, to waste no breath,
To choose the planet over death.
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