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Trillium
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0 posted 2001-05-18 01:47 AM


I know that someday I will cry hot tears,
As land I've come to love just disappears.
When people move into the woods and plains,
So little of the natural world remains
And while it causes pain within my core,
Affects the creatures living here much more.
Though I can move into a house in town,
Where do they go when the last tree comes down?
Each year I see new inroads that are torn
From places where the wilderness was born.
The beaver that once teemed all through this land,
Succumbed beneath the weight of man's cruel hand
And deer we used to see most every day,
Are hunted out or driven far away.
No longer do the elk, the moose and bear,
Lead simple lives and even in their lair,
Some animals are hunted just the same,
By packs of hunting dogs.  It seems a shame
We cannot share the wilderness that they
Have lived in countless years before our day.
I pray we learn and leave more wilds to show
The world that God created, long ago.


Betty Lou
Hebert


Published on The Typewriter's.com 2000

[This message has been edited by Trillium (edited 05-18-2001).]

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Joyce Johnson
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1 posted 2001-05-18 02:15 AM


Good poem Betty and timely.  I don't know the answer.  There should be room for all.  Joyce
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2 posted 2001-05-18 10:02 AM


You've touched on a very sad but true thing.
It is a shame as we waste away what we've been given by God. In our "infinite" wisdom, we seem to destroy.

I came in to Illinois a few years ago by plane from Georgia, and was dumbfounded when I looked out the windows from above and saw mostly concrete. There was very little green. It's sooooooooo different going back the other way, as there was lots of land compared to here.  It is really sad that the animals are being pushed from their homes.

Very touching and compassionate piece!

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ellie LeJeune
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3 posted 2001-05-18 05:32 PM


beautifully written but so very sad as well...I wish we knew the answers! Prayer, much prayer.   Ellie

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Trillium
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4 posted 2001-05-18 06:37 PM


Thank you all for reading and feeling the purpose of this poem.  I see the diminishing of wildlife and wild lands every year where we live and it makes me so sad.  So little that we can do to combat it too.

Betty Lou Hebert

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5 posted 2001-05-18 11:04 PM


So true, so true.  Man and his machinery will destroy every inch of the natural wonder of mother nature's land if we are not careful.  Hopefully they will realize it before there is nothing left.  Excellent write.  

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by the grace of God.
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6 posted 2001-05-19 07:18 PM


Lone Wolf:  Thank you for commenting and understanding!

Betty Lou Hebert

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