"Life is the dancer and you are the dance."
Eckhart Tolle

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

movement and change one shot wednesday #28

Tectonic plates shift,
a seafloor spreading its wings,
widening, ready to engulf.

A bird falls, calls to others: follow
Thousands lay dead on the tremor.

Floodwaters devour humans,
as if to drench the dehydrated.

Everything is moving,
going in cycle
with hands grabbing from an angry lair
at unsuspecting life.

Fish gasping for one last breath
Thousands lay dead on beaches.

Apathy, our own worst enemy

When the volcano erupts: no surprise
as the molten rock
floods the valley at my feet.

8 comments:

  1. nice use of disaster through out...and apathy, yes indeed...nice one shot.

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  2. I can feel the quake in your words Pamela....this is vivid and amazingly written.
    :-)

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  3. Anthony, thanks for that, much appreciated.

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  4. So many disasters going on Brian.

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  5. Carrie, nice to see you and thanks.

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  6. This was "felt" and (for lack of a better word) moving!
    Very powerfully constructed, and so perfect for One Shot!

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  7. Kavita, I have been very moved (for lack of a better word) :) by current events.
    Thanks

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