Farewell, from a Banded Lapwing

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Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

0 posted 2008-06-12 08:47 PM

Some say dams and levees are good.
Growing more on the land is a plus.
For me, they are life-threatening forces.
I have no say in the matter,
for I am but a lowly shore-bird,
resident of marshes and floodplains,
and few have a vested interest
in my predicament.
I am not
an income-producer.
And I’m not a migratory bird
who can fly away
to find another breeding site.
While you build your dams
to satisfy your personal wants
you destroy my habitat,
dooming me
to the inevitable

extinction.

But perhaps,
as time flies
in the winds of change,
your collective behaviors
will inadvertently doom your species
to the same
end?

http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2008/06/resident_wader_decline.html

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

1 posted 2008-06-12 09:30 PM

Ms. Midnitesun gives a fine 'voice' to the small, fragile, helpless, most 'endangered' ones!

applause!!

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

2 posted 2008-06-12 11:19 PM

Something to think about. I add my applause, Kacy.
Ida

Alison

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since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

3 posted 2008-06-13 02:04 AM

Kacy,

Thank you.

Alison

Gentle Spirit
Member Patricius

since 2000-10-09

Posts 13989

4 posted 2008-06-13 05:53 AM

Kacy, your voice is always one, that I am always pleased to listen to...

and hear. Love this lady. Hugs to you.

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

5 posted 2008-06-13 10:40 AM

Kacy, the banded lapwing has asked me to ask you please to send the poem he wrote to that website or to an Austrailian newspaper or magazine. It may just help. If it doesn't, no harm will be done and you will have done your wonderful Kacy thing - and I can't believe that it won't help. Love your lapwing's poem. He writes very well. Thank you for posting it for him.

- Owl

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

6 posted 2008-06-13 10:51 AM

What a beautiful bird he is! And how powerfully you speak his heart, dear Kacy!

Love,
Margherita

Prasad Nataraj
Senior Member

since 2008-05-29

Posts 1149
Bangalore,India

7 posted 2008-06-13 11:10 AM

Hi Midnitesun, a very powerful write,

“But perhaps,
as time flies
in the winds of change,
your collective behaviors
will inadvertently doom your species
to the same
end?”
Surely someday this is going happen the way we are abusing nature. Prasad

"Hardwork pays in the long run"

Robert Frazier
Senior Member

since 2003-02-06

Posts 1014

8 posted 2008-06-13 12:25 PM

meeting needs at cross purposes - not an easy thing.

Poignant and powerful write!

R

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

9 posted 2008-06-14 07:50 PM

Thanks for the wonderful comments on this poem!
(Diana? thanks for the giggle.)

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