Monday, April 3, 2017

Tasted the beauty of life's blessings

                                                                                          Attribution: В.Білецький
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 luster
But 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'sSpeaking 
for Spring’s Stillborn Sprouts

15 comments:

  1. 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.

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  2. Yes as well as humans the nature world also feels the hurt of life. Very well expressed Hank.

    I 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.

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    1. Yvonne Ma'am,
      Had indicated it at your blog. Please check it out

      Hank

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  3. Sprouts ravaged dead in their tracks...

    You nailed it!

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  4. Disappointment, indeed. Well done, Hank.

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  5. Humans sure don't think until it is far too late

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  6. Yes, those closing lines sum it up nicely. Good one, Hank.

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  7. How this turns' and ther, there is the cause. Well done.

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  8. Yes we are. No doubt we wreck havoc with nature.

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  9. Good question. I read it as rhetorical.

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  10. When will we ever learn? Not until it's too late I fear. What a thought provoking piece Hank

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  11. Human failings at the root of every crisis - plant and animal world.
    Powerful lines, especially the last.

    Nilanjana.
    Madly-in-Verse

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