Terri says: “This is a photo of Nine Mile Falls, after which our little community is named. I captured this last March when the water district let out the water of the Spokane River to create Lake Spokane. When you drive by, the mist from the falls hits the windshield enough to use the wiper blades. In certain light, it really looks this green.”
Corralling mindset mode of play
Where humans tweak world’s proven rules
An unsound sham of nature’s way
When greed’s despotic eyes survey
Our exploits prove us to be fools
Corralling mindset mode of play
We ignore science and betray,
We rationalize and confuse;
An unsound sham of nature’s way
Where humans make the earth its prey,
Divert, enslave, exploit, abuse
Corralling mindset mode of play
When killing earth becomes cliché,
resigned, we bow down to the ruse;
An unsound sham of nature’s way.
I strum this harp and must inveigh
we’re bullies and will meet our doom.
Corralling mindset mode of play
An unsound sham of nature’s way.
Colleen Chesebro is the host of Tanka Tuesday. Colleen says:
🍀 Write your poem using the photo as your inspiration. 🍀
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Perfect form for the content, L, and masterfully delivered. Thanks.
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Thank you, Ron, much appreciated.
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That’ll make you ponder things a bit!
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Indeed, Randy!
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Very masterfully written Li.
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Sadje, thank you very much.
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You’re welcome my friend
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Truly splendid. Thank you
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Selma, thank you ❤
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Yes. (K)
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Lisa, this villanelle is superb. I love the rhythm and flow, but most importantly, it’s the message that tears at my heart. 💚🍀
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Colleen thank you very much ❤
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You’re so welcome. I’m in book creation land with clients… I hope to write some poetry this week. 🙏🏻💚
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perfect content and form Lisa ❤
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Thank you, AJ!
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Villanelles are so difficult! Good job!
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Thank you, Luanne!
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A beautiful Villanelle 💜
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Willow, thank you ❤
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Hubby and I just watched a YouTube video about how rivers always try and make a balance – and it could take years. But yes humans get in the way to ‘harvest’ whatever they can for themselves. Often disturbing paths of migration for other animals.
Your piece reminds me of the movie Shagrala… I think it was that movie, anyway where (for lack of a better discription) explorers found a hidden peaceful valley in the mountains. But it wasn’t all a bed of roses – the people lived for over hundreds of years but there were no children… the ‘people’ wanted the explorers to stay, to help their own ‘gene’ pool. but the one guy convinced the one beautiful gal to leave – but of course once out of the mountain valley she turned to bones and dust….
There will always be a trade off of sentient beings and resourses. Until those beings learn ‘balance’. But nature is its own force and it seems will and has fought back to reclaim some of (at least) this planet.
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❤ what you say here, Jules. That movie sounds good.
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I’m not sure if this is the version I saw;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Horizon_(1973_film)
I don’t believe I remember a happy ending as the article suggests. But I don’t remembere much of the plot either. 😉
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Wow! That was fantastic, Lisa! I loved it.
Yvette M Calleiro 🙂
http://yvettemcalliero.blogspot.com
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Thank you, Yvette.
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