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allan
Senior Member

since 2000-04-09

Posts 620
On the road

0 posted 2001-04-28 06:18 PM

all nature grows and dies

naked

-

innocent
amongst the artifice of Man

observe each branch, blade, petal, root
and stem
how unselfconscious and free it grows

such simple forms
with such a simple plan
to live and grow, to survive,
to stretch out for the sun
to simply be

but complex Man
with his neurotic plans
builds and burns around her
somehow deformed and lost
ignorant of the cost
of separation from his Mother

he doesn't see
the simplicity
but only looks to see
if he can use
or abuse her
in her innocence

he thinks to exploit her

to paint pretty colours
over her purity

to burn the wooden home of life

to harvest a crop he will consume

to distort and twist fertility
into a tool

to drain and choke
the river of his veins

but she, simply
says nothing

not yet

she dies without a sound

but her death,
unknown to him,
finds an echo
in the mirror
of his soul

and he too takes
unknowing
a step
toward his grave

where after all he's done
she will accept him
as all mothers do their son

as they lie at last

side by side

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

1 posted 2001-04-28 07:02 PM

Dear Allan.

You wrote a very good poem and to a great extent these dire predictions of yours are p valid. But having been raised on a farm and living in farming country, I know how much the farmers love their land and how they try to restore as they use it. If it were up to the farmers alone, there would be no one going hungry. It is the distribution that is behind times. Nature will survive. Her rejuvenating powers are limitless, but like you, I am not sure of man. Joyce

Xeonox

Senior Member

since 2000-04-01

Posts 1764
CA, USA

2 posted 2001-04-29 02:50 AM

Great work .I written somewhat of a similar context poem, but not so good as yours. Great work. I feel the pain in this poem.

Ronil (One becomes god only when they have fully understood the role of being a human being.)

allan
Senior Member

since 2000-04-09

Posts 620
On the road

3 posted 2001-04-29 12:02 PM

Thank you both very much.

I wrote this after the potential effects of the Bush decision on Kyoto sunk in.

I take the point on farmers. I'll look up the poem...

Swamp¤Faeryie
Member

since 2000-12-04

Posts 393
fairyland....of course;)

4 posted 2001-05-05 09:17 PM

ahhh your poetry always so real,never trite,but full of meaning. How i must agree. Personally i truely don't beleive the earth has endless rejuventating powers,and even if we stopped destroying her now,our damage has been done,earth can't survive like this much longer,she will eventually give out,and humans have done it to them very selves. How sad,oh dreary oh fearly!! lol okay i AM done!! What was i trying to say,oh yeah!! EXCELLENT poetry!!

sammi

much madness is divinest sense,and much sense the starkest madness~Emily Dickinson

laryalee
Member

since 2000-06-19

Posts 352
Alberta, Canada

5 posted 2001-05-05 10:06 PM

Excellent thoughts, Allan - and a fine presentation....It's good to see people recognize what's happening...
Unfortunately, greed has taken over, and nature will eventually be stripped bare....and your forecast will come true.
Lary

Irie
Senior Member

since 1999-12-01

Posts 1493
Washington State

6 posted 2001-05-06 02:41 AM

So vert true Allan, and so very well penned.
A mothers love for her son will never die.

~Sheri

"The things that come to those that wait may be the things
left by those who got there first"

~DreamChild~
Senior Member

since 2001-04-23

Posts 544
in your dreams

7 posted 2001-05-06 03:00 PM

a great depiction of mother earth and her rebellious child, mankind.
thanks,
~DreamChild~

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