Challenge
Write from the perspective of Mother Nature viewing her ruined earth
I am doing a photography exhibition in Manchester City centre (UK) and want a poem that I will record being spoken to go alongside my photographs of moorland fires, the winner will have their work displayed at the exhibition and will be credited.
Mother nature’s unwavering cheek
What have you done with my precious gift
My consecrated tenement, a senseless short shrift
Whoa to the mind deciding my beloved’s fate
The one who lit the match and walked away
The one who sits upon the green green grass
The one who flips every switch, eyes closed fast
And The all important one who signs on the dotted line
All of you, none unnoticed by me, ultimately pay the fine
For All my tears cannot put out your firestorm
You must take my wrath when it comes along
Don’t stand there idly crying feeling aggrieved
You have no leg to stand on, no air left to breathe
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