Image: Forest Devastation (here)
D for Devastation in the Quest to be Healthy
Note: To write on a grieving
plant whose sprouts were killed
as a result of climate change.
Tasted the beauty of life's blessings
Insistence to bask in greenery lusterBut macabre experience of surly traits
In the regimen of climate malfunction
A reluctance to understand the hurt
To nature's abundance now retarded
Sprouts ravaged dead in their tracks
Helpless in healthy growth's sustenance
Human factor of no help in a reversal
Unprecedented dilemma now accepted
What a disappointment to healthy living
Were human failings a contributory factor?
Magaly's at Real Toad's - Speaking
for Spring’s Stillborn Sprouts
Your last two lines say it all. The disappointment digs into the soul and rots hope. It's even more frustrating when we remember that things could be so different... if we just tried to make it so.
ReplyDeleteYes as well as humans the nature world also feels the hurt of life. Very well expressed Hank.
ReplyDeleteI have tried to locate your A to Z post but am not sure how to leave a link on the A to Z Challenge Blog.
Yvonne.
Yvonne Ma'am,
DeleteHad indicated it at your blog. Please check it out
Hank
Sprouts ravaged dead in their tracks...
ReplyDeleteYou nailed it!
Powerful words Hank
ReplyDeleteDisappointment, indeed. Well done, Hank.
ReplyDeleteHumans sure don't think until it is far too late
ReplyDeleteSuch powerful closing lines!!
ReplyDeleteYes, those closing lines sum it up nicely. Good one, Hank.
ReplyDeleteHow this turns' and ther, there is the cause. Well done.
ReplyDeleteYes we are. No doubt we wreck havoc with nature.
ReplyDeleteyes
ReplyDeleteGood question. I read it as rhetorical.
ReplyDeleteWhen will we ever learn? Not until it's too late I fear. What a thought provoking piece Hank
ReplyDeleteHuman failings at the root of every crisis - plant and animal world.
ReplyDeletePowerful lines, especially the last.
Nilanjana.
Madly-in-Verse