Poem Post 2

Why Log Truck Drivers Rise Earlier Than Students of Zen, For Nothing, The Great Mother

The first poem, Why Log Truck Drivers Rise Earlier Than Students of Zen, talks about a log truck heading out very early in the day and having to go out  thirty miles to a logging site. In the description  it brings up themes of isolation and emptiness.  It was like the truck was following a creek for thirty miles and all along the way the trees had already been cut. It  also seemed that the trees thirty miles away were the closest ones to get to and that there was no life or anything else on the way there. In the second, For Nothing, it is describing an almost mystical land and then nothing is there. Like all your hopes and dreams washed away. The poem is hinting that if we do not change our ways the earth will "disappear". The themes I see in For Nothing are destruction and peace.With peace being what earth once was and destruction what it will become. In the third poem, The Great Mother, it is like judgement day. Everyone is being evaluated for what they have done in their lifetime. Some have done good and some have done bad. The theme present was the power of and individual. What one person can do to help not just a large group. Everyone can help out to help the earth.