The Plunderer

The theme is the environment. I have tried a different style of poetry in writing this poem. Hope you like it.

The Plunderer

 

 

 

You came to the forests

Then looked around

And left

 

You returned to the forests

With men and machines

Cutting, burning

 

You worked through the forests

With bulldozers, and fire

Now all is clear

 

You left for the city to party

Here all is dry, and burnt

Smoke everywhere

 

You decimate nature without pity

For your profits, wealth

Not for prosperity

 

 

Author's Note

Please let me know if this is close to the Haiku style of poetry. It is the first time I've tried this form.

Reviews

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I liked the idea here, Hasan. Man is certainly a destructive beast hellbent on destroying all around him for his own comforts with little thought for the consequences of his actions.

As for this being a grouping of haikus, well, you have the number of lines correct for each section, but the haiku as a form is written in a 5-7-5 syllable count across each section of three lines. Being your first attempt at the form, it is easy enough to fix. Otherwise, i enjoyed the theme and the truth it holds.

[Hasan669]

Thank you for your helpful review. As regards the haiku form, I forgot when writing this poem that I have a poetic forms dictionary! As you rightly point out, it has a 5-7-5 syllable count across each section of 3 lines.
Once again many thanks and I am glad you like the poem.

[S.zaynab.kamoonpury]

Wow a thoughtprovoking hard hitting poem on man's destructive selfish ways. You expressed in an impressive wonderful poetic lament. Kudos for this brill muse.

Pls pleez do review/ comment/ add your thoughts on my newest poem too