Tag: drought
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Mother Earth
I carried them in my womb, nurtured them with my milk, watched them grow and multiply and learn from me. — No words we exchanged, no punishment did I mete and yet they listened and joyfully reaped my goodness. — Swiftly they learned to kill, and my face was bloodied, and they trampled each other;…
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Too Late?
The flowers wilt on the wracked earth, there are no buzzing bees, temperatures soar untempered, children stare out of thin slits, 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 long been gone. — It was an emergency,…
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What if the Rain had not come?
What if the rain had not come like Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia too desertification, dying animals, crying children, folk emaciated, and still the silent sun shines on drying, heating, carbon fuelled. —— What if the rain had not come? The reservoirs emptying still and the cracks in the ground widening and spreading like a pain of…
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Too Late!
——————————— The flowers wilt on the wracked earth, there are no buzzing bees, temperatures soar untempered, children stare out of thin slits of 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 long been gone. ——————————— The flowers…
