day one

i googled for cebu-based environmental organizations one day and found an interesting group called oneocean.org . the site has a gallery showing photos of corals, bright colored fishes, the state of the coastal areas in the country and a lot more. there is even an illustrated story of a little coastal community called away. it's right here.. http://oneocean.org/gallery/away_in_the_bay/slide01.html

the site also features poetry about the environment..here's one that i liked.

DAY ONE
By Eduardo T. Ortega

All the coral reefs
and forests were gone
and the seas were poisoned
by the land.

so, the Earth Spirit
lowered the continents
and let the waters
cleanse the earth.

and afterwards,
He asked the Water Spirit,
how do you want
the new kinds to be?

the Water Spirit pondered
for a thousand years and said:

make the corals black or gray.
place no rainbowsbelow the sea.
put the reefs back
in the deepest places --
divided from the fishes.

and the Earth Spirit
made them so.
and afterwards,

He asked the Land Spirit,
how do you want
the new land to be?

after a million years
the Land Spirit spoke:

raise Atlantis but keep
the other continents
below the sea.
return all animals
and plants but wait
seven billion years
before returning man.

and the land was made so
with all kinds but man.
and the Spirit was pleased.
and they rested
seven billion years.

day one.

how sorry mother nature must be. :(