The Graveyard of Climate Change

The earth shifted and a fitful groan echoed through the desertified landscape, A sheet of plastic wrapped itself languidly around a tortured thorny tree, across the sanded earth small creatures slipped between the drifting dunes and on the horizon rose a cloud, hurrying them to huddle beneath the golden ——- grains. Growing it then blotted… Continue reading The Graveyard of Climate Change

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

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!