I Dream Not (Earth Day Challenge)

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Auguste

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since 2000-02-16

Posts 3953
By the sea

0 posted 2001-04-21 09:15 PM

I Dream Not

by Michael

Alone
I sit
beneath the stars
and
I dream not.

This canopy
of twinkling, icy lights
has lost its lure.

The very
air I breathe,
assaulted
by man's greed.

Water
has the
stench
of
money's lust.

Condoms,
needles,
soil
the ocean sands.

Birds are born
with
deformities.

The habitats
and
species
daily lost.

Diseases in the
food
we eat.

I watch as
dying earth
so longs to heal.

It seems that all
mankind
forgot
to
feel.

Proust-
"Love is space and time measured by the heart"

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

1 posted 2001-04-21 09:17 PM

Oh this is so sad. But here in my valley things are mch better. Joyce

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

2 posted 2001-04-21 09:21 PM

Michael, now you know why I am grateful to be where I am, for now....people are moving into the area where commercialism reigns, the fathers who were the sons of the farmers not realizing what they do...in selling off land....we don't grow any more land....

that is why we hold on to what we have....

and care for it as we may....

and not willingly allow it up for blacktopping....

very good Sir....I hope people will hear.

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

3 posted 2001-04-21 09:54 PM

Michael--There are so many things that need to be treated with more respect...and if we can't treat the very basic things this way...how can we instill in our children such values...Thank you for posting this well written poem.

Nan

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since 1999-05-20

Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

4 posted 2001-04-21 10:02 PM

"Earth so longs to heal"... indeed... Wise words, my friend..

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

5 posted 2001-04-21 11:50 PM

Michael~
Poignancy so real in this render.
I dare to dream of a time that the land is returned to it's natural abundance.

Perhaps not in our time ... perhaps never ?
But if dreaming could make it so ....
~*Marge*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
noles1@totcon.com

SpitFire
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since 2000-04-19

Posts 2396

6 posted 2001-04-21 11:57 PM

~"I watch as
dying earth
so longs to heal.",...Oh wow. Truly sad. Truly. Well done here. *Peace.

elizabeth anne
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since 2001-03-29

Posts 83

7 posted 2001-04-22 12:06 PM

Remember the old 60's song...
"They Paved Paradise and Put Up a Parking Lot" ? That's how I feel every morning driving to work down a road which was once lined with woods and pastures, old farms and lakes. Now it's just one more in the succession of shopping centers every time I look.
It seems Man will not be happy until he has paved every patch of green left on this earth. Very poignant poem Michael..

Elizabeth Anne

Cerenity
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since 2000-02-16

Posts 2637
Escondido-California

8 posted 2001-04-22 02:35 PM

Hi Auguste,

The chill running up and down my body is proof you have made your point so very well, I want to say job well done on such a sad calamity,

Love, Cerenity

"God doesn't have to be reminded that we exist.
We have to be reminded that He exist!"

(Writer Unknown)

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