Holiday in wood

Drifting along banks

on tips of baccano

where cues flared

signaling the end

meant over there

not middle of somewhere.

 

chemical lawns

gleaming freedom

littered with west Virginia

tumbleweeds spill

with their wind

on downhill slide

bringing holiday stay

to a forest camp

 

birds scream

and a squirrel sighs

looking around to find

where the deer hide

they know best

bedding down near

 

the streams

 

where land is cut  a slice

of the American dream

forking the hills and valley

betwixt long gone fields

plush Groves  shiver

dangling on the edge of tine

 

a stones throw near the river

down below Glen, yeah

you know him

he's the one putting oil

on the last dirt road

helping keep the dust down

construction trucks

hauling in dirt, taking

leavings of trees

 

if acres are just...

 

only a couple hundred

years old, their bulldozed to sleep

log out money and fillet the rest

build another community

quarter acre spots

feed me your din

help the people buy

chemical dawn for each

and everyone, enjoying holiday

as I look uphill and see the storm

bringing rains to wash

down

 

 

*there's land under that river -I heard someone say

Reviews

[Frieda P]

Growth is not always a good thing, especially when it rapes the landscape and takes down nature in it's ravaging demeanor. I'm not sure there are any good answers to this dilemma, if there's more money to be made, that's the only 'green' some worry about....nice one!

[Souladareatease]

Thank Dear Frieda...sad times...americans as a whole are conditioned to living this way...groomed over time...nature slowly losing out and edged out...except by a handful...we have come to a place where truly it is hard to live with the earth...even the greenest of folks...the ones who are the most uncaring and thoughtless are the ones whom I loathe...hope Your holiday is kind, thank You for the kind words!!!

[Frieda P]

I have to say where I live now there's not much green around, just the bustling of people going about their every day lives, not realizing that there is any different way of life out there. I used to live neatly tucked in the woods, with wondrous nature around me, but circumstances no longer permitted me to stay there, I do miss it so. Yes, I understand, there are certain individuals that are intolerable, this spoke loudly to your to your concerns, and my pleasure always!