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By CYNTHIA SHARPE<\/h3>\n

Cynthia Sharpe, a former communications intern with North Carolina Sea Grant, holds an English degree from North Carolina State University.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Top photo courtesy villagecraftsmen.blogspot.com. Bottom photo courtesy N.C. State Parks.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Cynthia Sharpe sees many images when she reads this poem: Earth spinning in space, familiar landscapes going through seasonal cycles, and the sun coming up behind snowy trees. Photos above courtesy of N.C. State Parks.<\/p><\/div>\n

3<\/strong> cheers for the world,
\nThe hopeful soul that it is.
\nEver aging,
\nEver growing,
\nEver changing
\nLife to dust and dust to life.<\/p>\n

It must believe in greater things.
\nLove, hope, joy, abundance.
\nA reward of some sort
\nFor it to keep pushing the way it does.
\nIt must have been made a promise.<\/p>\n

Or be bound by one.<\/p>\n

Tortured by the mundane,
\nNothing new under the sun.
\nSick from spinning.
\nIndefinitely sentenced to wake and slumber,
\nFlourish and sacrifice.<\/p>\n

3 cheers for the world,
\nThat it somehow musters up the strength to renew itself.
\nHERself.
\nAfter 360 something days of promise.
\nIt is a mother\u2019s strength.
\nI am my mother\u2019s child.<\/p>\n

This article was published in the Winter 2017<\/a> issue of <\/em>Coastwatch.<\/em><\/p>\n

For contact information and reprint requests, visit ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/contact\/<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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