Our only earth

OUR  ONLY EARTH

Today Orveli’s day is stormy. People has lost their compass. Orveli wrote the poem – Compass – many decades ago.

The Compass

A call in the wind in Orveli's place, Orveli 2014, January 17th 2015

A call in the wind in Orveli’s place, Orveli 2014, January 17th 2015

South – child,

East – youth,

West – adult,

North – elder.

 

South – hunger,

East – lack,

West – weath,

North – abundance.

 

South – weeks,

East – screams,

West – leaps,

North – sleeps.

 

Orveli, 1982, http://www.orveli.fi

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