November,
fireworks, frosts
annual disgust
at lives wasted
in mankind's
futile world wars
but soon forgotten
as yuletide beckons
with tinsel, baubels
and fairy tale joy.
Whilst somewhere
out there climate
raggedly changes
slowly, menacing.
Killing, destroying.
So roll over,
back to sleep,
buy more plastic,
travel more miles,
consume more energy
luxuriate....
complacency only
kills people
somewhere else
on my TV screen
why bother me ?
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dusk arising (
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Very strong words d a, if only people would listen to the truth, if only those in power would tell the truth.
If only - the most challenging words in life.
Andy
Thanks Andy, people listen but do not act.
A fine write dusk. I suppose it's easy to forget if it's happening 'somewhere else', and just go back to sleep.
So many ppl sleep walk through life dont they.
A very good write dear poet….what ought to be and what are we doing…looks like we are distancing ourselves from solutions and creating more problems…
I don't know if you're right. We can't do the big things thats for politicians, but we can do stuff in our own lives for the future of young ones.
That’s true
A drop can make ocean
And every effort counts
A dire warning set in your talented words dear Dusk - we all need to read this verse over and over to realize that we as individuals can change habits and help reverse what is unthinkable.
Thank you Fay, yes I agree.
outstanding in more ways than one my friend ... this is just another from your portfolio that I would personally have very muchly liked to have poemed .......... nowt short of brill you old soothsayer you ...
Neville 🙂
A subject very much in mind at the moment. I even bought a low emissions car to contribute, i hardly use it at the moment.
indeed,
its only indifference
if we first admit - our awareness;
until then
its all deemed: 'Ignorance'
right?
'Wilful: ignorance!' that is...
(important and Essential words, Dusk!
thanks for sharing, dear Poet)
WE can only do the everyday stuff in our own lives can't we. Thanks LBM.
I'll vote for that, dusk - your piece that is, not the situation it describes so eloquently.
Thanks Dave.
Superb penning in this thought provoking piece.
Love:
"...So roll over,
back to sleep,
buy more plastic,
travel more miles,
consume more energy
luxuriate....
complacency only
kills people
somewhere else
on my TV screen
why bother me ?..."
Yep, sarcasm used to get the point across. Thank you Mermaid.
If people don't realise now, then they never will. Time isn't in our hands.
WE can all do our bit I hope. I'm doing my bits... must try harder tho.
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