This Collaboration by EDEN HUNDSDOERFER R.J. SHONKand SUSAN JOYNER-STUMPF is Volume I of what will becomea yearly sequel. The poems embrace the beauty and wonder ofNature and Wildlife. But also within these pages is the bringingof awareness to the atrocities done to Mother Earth our Planetand all who live here. It is the hope of these Poets that their voicetheir cry be the VOICE for those who themselves cannot speak.May we all come together and preserve this gift of Gaia. We must do abetter job. So these poems write of pleasure and pain. But without painthere is no growth.May we learn to come together and grow towards being the Guardianswe were born to be. Before it doesn't matter anymore.