Burnt Dirt

Debating climate change? If so I feel sorry for you....

Summer grassland, screams are garbled

Hoarsely clearing dusted pipes

Frantic bees scratch 2D hives in

sizzling patches…scorched soil dirges.

 

Farmland withers, bleeding ca$h;

Treetops flame like matchstick towers…

Farmer Dells clutch ground like cinders,

Trapped by crops in molten memory.

 

Barns once filled with work machines

Now stand in kindling,

Dirt on fire.

 

dan © 2015

 

Music: “Burnin’ for You,” by Blue Oyster Cult

 

Author's Note

Reviews

[B]

Dirt on fire
Almost like all the full year's bad memories
burn on summer fires
to start fresh again :)

[dan]

Drought in farmland = millions of $$ lost, hunger bludgeons the poor in increased numbers, world exports drying up...to start fresh again? That's our only hope. Thank you for your insightful review. take care...dan

[B]

Waw i am so far off
funny how the world is built
really messed up

[....................]

great write, Dan... the wrath of climate change is ever present in the fields once profitable and in our oceans as species become extinct or change migratory patterns... dirt on fire, indeed... we need to pay attention...

[dan]

Thank you, FT. I don't make a habit of writing about subjects that can be deemed political, but I fear for the environment of future generations, if not our own. Trouble is, I see no action, no feasible end in sight. I just see an environmental D-Day, Ground Zero (in more ways than one). take care...dan