Birth Rights

A look at our certain future!

Granddaughter Payton

Wheat fields wave across the meadow

bright yellow 'neath a sky of blue

Beautiful swaths of sun bleached straw

cut down long before their due

So like the children of our city

colored yellow, red, brown and gold

Living out their lives in dog years

struck down long before they're old

This sickness flows through our land

leaving the helpless and despaired

Where all are made to be thrown out

none are saved or even repaired

When the silent spring finally comes

and all the birds are in a museum

We'll sell our birthright for a song

so children can pay to see them

Then all the beauty will be gone

as our grandchildren run out to play

Not under blue or 'cross the green

but in the trash from yesterday

Written August 13, 2009

All rights reserved

Author's Note

At the rate we are going we are sadly destined as a race for a dry, dusty, polluted, future. Devoid of beauty, music, children or hope!.

Reviews

[AprilRN1210]

you are by far, one of the most talented writers I have had the pleasure to meet.. I absolutely love this.. I love the picture, the font, color, the message, the flow, the rhythm, the imagery, each carefully selected word.. It feels light and hopeful and yet at the same time like a harsh wake up call.. nice job as always..

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you April I smiled upon reading that and felt I had accomplished what I set out to do.I am humbled and honored.

[AprilRN1210]

I am glad I could make you smile.. Your poetry always makes me FEEL.. I love the depth of emotion in which you write your meaningful pieces.. you always walk away feeling like you learned something or experienced something worthwhile... I would say it was a home run with this one sir.. You are more than welcome, my friend.. It is I, who is honored.. :)

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you my friend.

[AprilRN1210]

anytime.. I love reading your work... It is my pleasure..

[Sean Allen]

Hey Tate, I've been away for a while, But this is where writers should be and I'm so pleased to see that you are still here doing the work that we are to do. The thoughts in this piece are so pure and beautiful that I am amazed to have just clicked it first. I see that as it was when I left that most just shower praise on a work and this piece certainly deserves praise. I do suspect that with a bit of mechanics, adjusting a word or two here and there and perhaps the cadence it could become a masterpiece.

[Tate Morgan]

Ah Sean one of the ole masters of this craft. So great to have you back and I am humbled at the compliment thank you

[Sean Allen]

I hope you don't mind, but I have been stealing this beautiful thought you have expressed here and am just running it through my mind with a chisel. I was just thinking that the beauty of poetry is that to make it more perfect, you have to use less words. The world thinks that to make life better, you have to use more.

[Tate Morgan]

I am with you on this I am a firm believer it paring down my works sometimes s eliminating whole quatrains to their inner essence Less is more and the shorter the better I agree so much i wrote one of the same thought called "More to Me" the more i pared this one down the better it got http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/aristate/1380089/

[TL Boehm]

true words Tate. True words.

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you dear thank you

[Danomaly1983]

That was a bleak future well described, particularly the part about selling our birthright for a song, so children can pay to see them. I like that you rhymed "museum" with "see them".

[Tate Morgan]

Thanks Dan yes it is not only a bleak future but one that is definitely a fact for us to contemplate

[Amy]

Sincerely written; I love the imagery and the emotion behind it. The world would be a better place, only and only if we set our minds to do things right. good write up. I always enjoy reading your poetry.

[Tate Morgan]

thank you Amy so nice to hear that

[Me]

this touched my heart...It is so honest and forthright. I really am enjoying your writing style. Great job again

[Tate Morgan]

Michael thank you so much i appreciate that

[raj24]

your works speaks a lot about reality of life...i love your description of the field and your comparison with children of cities.. and yes the rate at which are going on..pollution, drugs and other things.. all this beautiful picture will only be a part of museums in some years..thanks for sharing :)

Raj

[Tate Morgan]

Raj thank you i have been gone all day but I liked this review glad you liked the poem

[Natalia]

This is really fantastic. A cause I feel very strongly about. Great job.

[Tate Morgan]

Thank u very much

[Colorado Brian]

I really love poems that are written with heart, regarding social issues. This poem applies to so many aspects of man kind, from industry pollution to fracking and poisoning the land and so many things in between. I'm lucky to have access to your writing.

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you I am glad you like them they are all taken from my own life and times as well as from humanities combined experiences

[Colorado Brian]

I Love your music additions too. From Bob Seger to the Beatles, the songs add to the atmosphere of great writing.

[Tate Morgan]

thank you yes i do that for a reason

[Vicky Zhuang Yi-Yin]

This is beautiful. Keep up the good work. :) Sorry it takes me time to read all the requests that come my way, but thank you for keeping me updated with your work.