Charmed Chaos
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The Enemy Revealed
the veil, now lifted
the enemy is revealed
spending life racing
chasing the mighty dollar
failing to honor nature
but now that we’ve paused
we are seeing fresh beauty
in every green leaf
finally, we realize
earth was waiting for our fall
for we are, you see
our own baffling enemy
destroying the air
we breathe, the water we drink
killing ourselves with each act
©2020 Linda Lee Lyberg
Author’s Note: When I saw this photo, I saw so much more than a crocodile, a predator. I saw all of nature, watching us as we destroy this beautiful earth. And now, we are paying the price with this disease. This earth and its creatures will be here long after we are gone.
Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge No. 178 #PhotoPrompt
Earthweal: Open Link Weekend #21
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A powerful message, Linda, for all of us to hear. I feel like nature (I call her the mother goddess) has thrown down the gauntlet. I fear those in power will continue to destroy us all for the love of power and money. You’ve given us all so much food for thought. ❤
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Thank you Colleen.
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Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #2: Linda Lee Lyberg’s latest #tanka sequence for Colleen’s #weekly #tanka #poetry #challenge!
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Thanks Frank.
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A good thing to read first thing in the morning! Love your posts keep it up!
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Thank you.
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When I think of how much oxygen one tree produces in a lifetime, and how cavalierly people can chainsaw them down with no restriction, it makes me weep. A few years back, when I was still working, I was taking a kid home in a part of town I didn’t go to much. We came up to the corner where we needed to turn, and on one corner someone had come in and cut down every oak tree. The lot was full of pieces of tree. A massacre as horrific as any that has come before and since. We need to start protecting our trees! EVERY tree.
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Yes, we do. Thanks Lisa.
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So many trees are being cut down in southern New Hampshire, where I live, to make room for more strip malls, storage warehouses, and housing developments. It pains me every time I drive by another lot of fallen trees.
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That’s terrible!
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I so agree, Linda. Life is giving us a chance to reflect and, hopefully, mend our ways, as best we can at this late date.
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Yes, so true.
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I love the line ‘earth was waiting for our fall’. That does feel like what is happening. We are the enemy.
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Yes.
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I think that’s true. I still hope for change, but time is getting short. (K)
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Yes, it is. Thank you.
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The pandemic is such a clarifier of what is really going on. It isn’t economy versus human health — or it is, but that’s the front door — it’s a species of life tyrannizing and killing its world in greed of every nugget of gold it can extract. And guess what – nature always wins. Well done. Hope you bring something of the sort to Sherry’s protest challenge starting Monday – Brendan
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Thank you so much Brendan.
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Well done, Linda. I was trying to do something like this, but mine seems more didactic. You hit the right balance.
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Thank you Merril.
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Your poem is a different take on the prompt than others I have read, and it is so true.
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Thank you!
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