TURN BACK WRONG WAY

The World ----

A palace by day

A palace by night

From the trees of prosperity

To the fields of life.

Changing with evolution,

A masterpiece that seeds

Not to be sculptured

By man's selfish needs.

For extinction is near

From man's progress

As the forests disappear;

Is this man's success?

Reviews

[Kathy Van Kurin]

'Turn Back Wrong Way'
Andrew Mitchell,
The title of this one is like a warning sign posted on all the places denuded to the point of devastation. Its so appreciated when trees are taken in small patches or thinned and especially when replants done. We have all seen too many documentaries of the affects and influences of tree loss. Ancient history even shows in archaeological work traces of tree wood in now bare, dry and desert lands. Super poem.
Kathy

[andrew mitchell]

Thank you Kathy, this is one of many earlier poems I wrote when I first started out dabbling in poetry I knew nothing about.