Tag: animals
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The Elephant Graveyard
Image: Elephant Skeleton ~ Mike Richardson When I close my eyes I dream of deepest Africa The Motherland Our ancestral home Where the orange sun rises Over the plantation lands And the hot winds blow Across the Serengeti plains Deep in the wilderness Vultures hover over an elephant graveyard Swooping to pick at the flesh…
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One Week Later
Image: Fire in Upper Ferntree Gully ~ jsarcadia This is a follow up to the poem I posted earlier about Black Saturday and the bushfires in Victoria. I wrote the poem as a way of trying to move through the horror I felt in the days following the tragedy. There were so many images, so…
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Hell on Earth
Image: Smoke Clouds ~ Jety Red sunrise burningWind howling among the treesNature is unleashed The beauty of fireAn unstoppable furyDancing on the wind Eucalypt forestAncient trees of memoryScorched by angry flames Smoke clouding the skyEmbers falling like raindropsIn the darkest light Twenty years of lifeReduced to rubble and ashWe have each other A fallen tree…
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Stand up for what you believe in
Today is Blogging Against Abuse Day. It’s an initiative created by BlogCatalog asking bloggers on Thursday, September 27th to write about putting an end to an abuse they feel passionately about. The goal is to try to form the largest group of bloggers to write about an important cause on the same day, and by…