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Template: Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 141 #PhotoPrompt
20 Aug 2019 25 Comments
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A Final Warning.
Dead
Starfish
On the beach
Are a message
Tell me who’ll listen
The bottle glints brightly
In un-natural hot sun
It too holds a message for us
Our planet is dying as we watch
We were custodians but we have failed.
Can
We heed
The message
Is it too late
Are we spoilers
Is this our sole fate
Can we save the planet
Rescue the land and the seas
Hark the note in the bottle please
Time is galloping away from us
Stop the rape and plunder of mother earth.
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The above is my entry to Colleen’s Tuesday Tanka Challenge.
Today is the middle Tuesday of the month and I am delighted to say it means we have a picture prompt. Thank you Colleen this one is a beauty which we can take in many directions. I have chosen a Butterfly Etheree , I feel the Butterfly is apt because I have chosen to use the message in the bottle as a warning. We have polluted our seas with plastic and chemicals, injuring and killing our aquatic wildlife. We are mining, deforesting and poisoning the earth and burning a hole in the ozone allowing climate change, It is real. I have not even touched on the ward we are waging.
We (humans) are the cause whether we intend to be or not. We must act now or lose our beautiful home.
Love to you all.
