Poem A Day Challenge April 18, 2019


This is part of collection of poems I've been working on since last summer. I'm not saying I'm finished with it. Desperate to get something out there today might be closer to the truth. 

drought

day after day
through a
carbon charged
atmosphere,
the sun god
radiates,
desiccates
the earth

plants,
her once fervent
worshipers,
whimper,
whither,
dry leaves curl into
thirst dreams:

dewdrops
rivulets of rain
cool sweet streams
and raging rivers

desperate
for damp,
roots extend,
tendrils splay out
seeking respite
seeking life

offered only
dry earth
crumbling into dust,
hope
is abandoned,
death
is embraced

arid winds
whorl
dried leaves,
brittle roots,
stems
and topsoil
into space

day after day
through a
carbon charged
atmosphere,
the sun god
radiates,
desiccates

1 comment:

  1. We've been there here, and thankfully can water, even if on restrictions. But your poem reminds me most of the dust bowl histories I've read, terrible times. You've shown it well, if sorrowfully, "seeking respite".

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