If I am the minnow in the sea, Then you are the water embracing me. I am the single blade of grass rising from a sidewalk crack, You are the rain that I drink. Here is another example, which begins with a different pattern, the thank you. Metaphor is recommended, but not required. Students should find ways to write this that please them.
Creativity is by nature divergent.
Examples are then read aloud. Notice that these example poems include things about Earth that trouble us, like discomfort and death and being eaten. You may want to try to include the troubling aspects of Earth in your poem. Then you are the lizard swallowing me. Earth, if I'm the bird, Then you are the birdhouse I nest in.