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A dance to honor Mother Earth

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    Mother Earth: Our end was imminent
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    yet finality relented.
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    Wind, water and fire gently revived;
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    you and I reconciled,
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    rhythms realigned,
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    the blues gone green.
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    Your care in conserving
    in exchange for my fruit
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    and replenishing this picturous
    restoring of painted skies,
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    mountains rolling,
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    forest covering --
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    no more warming.
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    The purity and simplicity
    of how we used to be.
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    You remember me?
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    All I give to humanity?
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    Housing, land, seas, birds,
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    beast and all of mankind --
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    exclusively the interface where
    you and the elements meet
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    and vibrate harmoniously.
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    (Piano)
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    (Violin)
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    (Music)
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    (Strings)
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    (Violin)
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    (Strings)
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    (Music)
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    (Violin)
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    (Music)
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    (Applause)
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    My beauty altered,
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    muddied waters,
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    fields stripped bare,
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    interior scarred beyond repair --
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    our memories eroding.
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    You once obsessed over my frame
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    and how I came to be,
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    my nature --
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    its polarity --
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    how my sweet winds whisper softly,
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    yet assault seas.
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    You remember me?
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    All I give to humanity?
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    Housing, land, seas, birds,
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    beast and all of mankind --
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    exclusively the interface where
    you and the elements meet
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    and vibrate harmoniously.
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    The unseen traveller forever passing,
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    carrying life,
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    moving,
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    awning of Earth felt and heard,
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    strong and stirring,
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    blowing.
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    Breathe you in cleansing wind,
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    gentle and still,
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    quieter.
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    The source eternally here,
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    ascent and descending ...
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    air.
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    Rhythmic flow,
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    fluid and graceful,
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    waves of serenity,
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    smooth strings of purity,
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    rains replenishing rapidly,
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    rivers of dreams,
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    raging springs covering
    Earth in abundance,
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    universal solvent dissolving,
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    drink,
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    liquid,
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    life and power --
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    water.
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    Born when the universe was formed,
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    warmed mankind,
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    gave him light,
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    colored rays illuminate ember flickers
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    incandescent, powerful and brilliant,
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    sacred son of air,
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    father of fury,
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    heat dancing vigorously
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    between perfection and beauty.
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    Unconfined agility,
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    fast and fancy.
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    Sparks of ingenuity rise.
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    Fire.
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    Canku One Star (Dancing)
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    (Chanting)
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    (Drums)
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    (Chanting)
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    (Chanting)
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    (Drums)
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    (Chanting)
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    (Drums)
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    (Chanting)
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    (Drums)
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    (Chanting)
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    (Drums)
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    (Cymbal crash)
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    (Applause)
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    (Violin)
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    (Music)
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    (Applause)
Title:
A dance to honor Mother Earth
Speaker:
Jon Boogz and Lil Buck
Description:
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Video Language:
English
Team:
closed TED
Project:
TEDTalks
Duration:
09:35
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