Umwelten of Hearts
Enter here through the door
Of their umwelten** have a view
An experiential building of report
How differences of lives, to preview
Worlds within worlds, uphold
On same land, under same sea
What animal dreams betold?
What body perceptions receive?
Enter here through the door
Of their umwelten, in empathy
Deepening of understanding in store
For aliveness of sacred diversity
Flower & bee environments greet
Yet do they each feel garden kissed?
Habitats of whale & barnacle meet
Yet what’s their sense of ocean blissed?
Ode to the ecologist or ethologist!!
Who open our doors of compassion
Ode to ALL who nurture our observationist
Poets, toddlers, herons or artists vision
Blessed be the umwelten**of our hearts
**Um·welt
/ˈo͝omvelt/
noun: Umwelt; plural noun: Umwelten
(in ethology) the world as it is experienced by a particular organism."the worlds they perceive, their Umwelten, are all different"
origin German for environment
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