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Image: Courtesy of the Artist from her blog at Listening To The Whispers (here)
Desolation
One of a kind
Untold imagination
Fabric of the mind
Can this be
happening?
Mass and energy
Are the same thing
E = mc2
Earth made to move
To a shifted axis!
Can this be happening?
Can this be happening?
The Sun encroaching
Nearer approaching
Destruction
Earth hurtling its mass
Nearer to the Sun but not quite
Heated landscape
Barren
Skeletal remains
of vegetation
A mere warning sign
Neurosis of thoughts
Rendezvous with time
Retribution for ills
Turbulent thoughts
End of the world
Apocalypse now!
Can this be
happening?
Written for Grace's hosting at Real Toad's Sunday Challenge featuring
the artist Kathryn D Dechairo
Written for Grace's hosting at Real Toad's Sunday Challenge featuring
the artist Kathryn D Dechairo
Nice use of so much. it is happening
ReplyDeleteI hate to think it might be happening sooner than later as we are slowly wrecking this planet to pieces ~ We should be heeding these warning signs as resources are not endless & bottomless ~
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking up with Real Toads Hank ~ Have a good week ahead ~
Hope we will be living somewhere else by that time, if it happens...Your fantasy rocks, Hank :)
ReplyDeleteThis is a chilling vision of a possible dystopian land. I shudder to think how our wastefulness and greed could lead to this kind of outcome.
ReplyDelete"Rendezvous with time" ~~~ for me, this was the most powerful line in your poem. Wonderful write, Hank.
ReplyDeletei am of the belief that everything happens for a reason...and that all the details are there with intention....apocalypse can come any time it wants...
ReplyDeleteA movie reference and Einstein in one go. It can come at any time at ones show
ReplyDeleteThis image is very evocative of those times and your verse states it so creatively!
ReplyDeleteJust love the desolation and destruction that you've conveyed. Powerful piece.
ReplyDeleteGreat interpretation of the starkness of the image and the stark possibilities that face the world.
ReplyDeleteYikes. I could definitely see what you are describing here, tho today my mood took me to a brighter vision.
ReplyDeleteI love your interpretation....and the question!
ReplyDeleteI fear it is happening!
Bravo for going there!
Brave and bold
Great poetic post.
ReplyDeleteHank, like that you chose the sun, rather than the moon, as the focal point. Even so - dark and foreboding.
ReplyDeleteHope not! We are probably getting closer and closer every minute--and we are all asking that same question! Thanks. k. (Manicddaily.)
ReplyDeleteHank, I think this can be happening, but I pray we're both wrong.
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Shortsightedness, disassociation, greed. We are on a trajectory, but we can collectively shift it.
ReplyDeleteSomber. I hope later than sooner.
ReplyDeleteI fear we will keep wondering same way- Can this be happening?
ReplyDeleteall the time..
there's no end to it
Such scary questions as we face our world and what we have done to it...wonderful writing!1
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