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Shadow on the Land
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Shadow on the Land |
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Jana Tovey Member
since 2000-05-30
Posts 257USA |
I saw a shadow on the land that spread for miles around no clouds hovered over head no great edifices were looming nothing within miles to cast this ominous shadow. A witch woman outside the town told me the shadow was an omen of destruction soon to come a war of sorts, but not among men a battle with the land sudden ecological breakdown. I thought the woman mad for the grass was still green and the trees and vines still thrived in the nearby forest the brook still gurgled while wild-life abounded all around. Years passed and the shadow spread like a stain of hazardous waste killing all that lay within it’s depths and the bad times started food production dipped and the starving times began. The news showed those who watched one continuous picture of sad, hollow-eyed children they stared with little life into cameras that hovered, as if waiting... watching for the dying to begin. The scenes we’d once seen on TV far and distant, as if of another time and another world, out of our reach, were now scenes that surrounded us starvation took our neighbors the dying times were at our doorstep. I walked through the streets, trying not to see the lifeless eyes of the dying their once outstretched hands now limp and un-lifted, they had no energy... for dying - as life seeped from them, and from me, just as it had from the land. “How could such a disaster be allowed?” The outcry - as governments failed. But few men or women had made a stand against the constant rape of the land unlimited abundance - pure fantasy... but easier to swallow than reality. So, the seas died and the land withered beneath a punishing sun... the land could no longer provide for the hordes that once over ran it and as the population dwindled no creatures were more pathetic than...poor humanity. |
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Swåmp¤Faerÿie Member
since 2000-03-29
Posts 358Illinois |
sigh.....This was very well done,as all your poems are...it's really a disgrace what humans have done to this beautiful earth......i figure if nothing happens before then the earth won't hold out for more than 20 years.......that even seems to be pushing it,but the earth is a truely amazing thing,it's taken all mankinds blows and still supports the weight.....and even retains some beauty.....sigh....well done poem!! swamp And there she weaves by night and day, a magic web of colours gay.~Tennyson |
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traveling heart Junior Member
since 2000-05-27
Posts 26 |
I pray that I never see this day... How terrifying it shall be TH |
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Irish Rose Member Patricius
since 2000-04-06
Posts 10263 |
great!! I had shadows on my mind all day and I loved this!!!! Kathleen indy31_99@yahoo.com |
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