Tag: Climate change

Creation groans.

The bounteous skin of the earth corrupted,
its bones break through, bleaching in the sun-

Where Land is Rare

I stood on the cliffs and looked out to blue, blue sea, the bobbing boats with lines and nets in the bounty. ——- An innocence spread out on the tortured ruins below the rippling waves where we came too    late, too       slow.  – Heard the bells of the churches and cathedrals… Continue reading Where Land is Rare

A Letter to Santa

I’ve written my letter and sent you my note, he’s bound to see just what I wrote, its not a lot but I’m sure he’ll see that all these things are not for me. ============= Dear Santa, please may I have a big box of peace, homes and hope along with my socks, a jigsaw… Continue reading A Letter to Santa

Deadly

There was a cloud of purple winged butterflies, fluttering to and fro, settling like thistledown on the flowers and leaves of the thickly wooded slopes of the rising morning misted mountains. —————————— Bees hummed amidst the ruby red geraniums, and their tiny legs filled with he mysteries of multi grains of pollen, carry back to… Continue reading Deadly

Spring Death

The sun caught the shy violet, shedding light on them, as they appeared like  sapphires in the grass and gorse and gave joy to the slow journeying. ————- They smiled at the swift, flying swallow retuned to a cold and frightened land, as it dipped and darted, diving for flies while the fearing folk stayed… Continue reading Spring Death

Mother Earth

Her vital blood vessels,  congested with synthetic carbons and an aortic aneurism of melting ice issuing and spilling over a splashed land. —————————— Her joints, arthritic and stiffened by politicians feasting on fine minerals. Muscles, fatigued by black, oil soaked  economies, shunning the light. ———– Growth glands and physiology polluted  by toxins derived from fertilisers,… Continue reading Mother Earth

Plastic Warfare

The clouds floated on the face of the water, which flowed silently under branches of trees. Nothing moved nothing stirred but the grey water. ———————- Up above the sun shone cloaking the trees in burning heat and searing the ground; charring the last vestiges of grass that were not burned by the salt laced stream.… Continue reading Plastic Warfare

Too Late!

——————————— The flowers wilt on the wracked earth, there are no buzzing bees, temperatures soar untempered, children stare out of slits in curtains closed against the searing sun. ———————————————- It was an emergency, now it  emerges change was too late. Nothing growing on the farms where water has not been husbanded. While, in the  fields… Continue reading Too Late!