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WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

0 posted 2009-07-19 12:41 PM

Can We Change

At the breach of dawn
as the subtle light plays games
with high forest landscapes
I find myself among tall trees
walking I’m not sure where
pondering the sights
soon to open to me
as I proceed on up to alpine meadows.

But the path I walk
is broken and rutted,
the work of ATV’s and “quads”
and further, I know
the clear cuts will come into view
and there also
the land is an inferno
of off-roaders’ pleasures.

I wonder:
Will we ever wake up?
See how our motorized pleasures
are destroying the very fabric of earth life –
the land; forests; foreshores –
the very air we breathe?
Eating away the soul of nature?

Alas as the leaves change colour;
as the sun comes through the mist
the fun lovers already return
to despoil another day
and I realize
man is having way too much fun.
No time to reason responsibility
or the consequences of the change
being inflicted upon this world.

Thus the show will go on, must go on –
predicated as it is on profit
for those who rule and ruin:
Yes it will go on
until nothing is left.

Earth Angel
Member Empyrean

since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

1 posted 2009-07-19 12:47 PM

If I was to have walked that walk with you, One Who Walks with Wind, similar thoughts would have echoed into the ethers from me. However, you expressed them poetically and poignantly.

Love & Nature's Light,
EA

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

2 posted 2009-07-19 12:50 PM

~sigh~ You know how I feel about this.

I used to have hope. Now it's only in fleeting moments.
Yet continue we must, to attempt to wake up those who just don't seem to care beyond their motorized moments.

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

3 posted 2009-07-19 01:30 PM

This is one of my pet peaves, WW. i think you expressed my own thoughts very well.
Ida

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

4 posted 2009-07-20 06:42 PM

Fine writing...do we want to change...James

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

5 posted 2009-07-20 08:39 PM

Yo WindWalker,

Where do you get this "we" stuff. I live in the city, and walk most everywhere.

Bobby

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