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Open Poetry #38

Can We Change

WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

0 posted 2006-08-02 10:08 PM

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.

aziza
Member Elite

since 2006-07-09

Posts 2995
Lumpy Oatmeal makes me Crazy!

1 posted 2006-08-03 09:38 PM

Sadly, true. I cringe when I see 4-wheel drive trucks covered in mud and hope that they did not rip apart something beautiful to find their fun. This is a great poem - very sensitive to a loss we face every day. Thank you.

aziza

Earth Angel
Member Empyrean

since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

2 posted 2006-08-04 10:06 AM

...and the trees shudder as they come tumblin' down...

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