God's Grandeur

I am a little behind in posting a poem and my pondering more than a week after Earth Day (April 22), but late is better than never I suppose.

I am guessing you have seen the photos I have been seeing -- our world and its pollution prior to the pandemic next to contemporary photos.  The changes are stunning.  Here are a few examples:

Or this from New Dehli...

One of Gerard Manley Hopkins best poems speaks to this.  He writes in the midst of the Industrial Age and yet his thoughts ring true today just as well.