Sunday, December 20, 2015

838 - Stony Indifference


Three Word Wednesday requires participants
to use the three words of the week in a composition.
The words this week are: savage, vengeful and tense


Stony Indifference

The planet is most bountiful
And so sustains its riders.
As it has done, age to age,
A generous provider.

Diverse, its passengers
Pillage their most generous host;
Destroying what is beautiful
In a race to own the most.

And what will they have got?
Carnage, in the most tragic sense
If we do not act respectful,
The future is past tense.

And yet we must not forget,
Savage, though scrupulously fair,
A planet cannot be vengeful,
It doesn’t even care.
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© J Cosmo Newbery 2015
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20 comments:

  1. One of your best. Or perhaps I just feel that way because it speaks for me (more elegantly than I could manage). Thank you.

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  2. A great poem dear Cosmo. Our planet is not vengeful but she will react with tragic consequences for us all if we don't treat her with more care and respect.
    xoxoxo ♡

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  3. I actually think there is a point when the planet will take revenge.. Dark and true.

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  4. "The future is past tense." the day is not far...a good reminder...

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  5. It doesn't care because whatever evolves will either sink or swim. I have that picture in my mind of all the profiteers and exploiters being eliminated eventually by something quite small and unexpected.

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  6. beautifully compact in line and message - I like the indifference contrast with the passion of the message though Gaia might yet revenge!

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  7. Well..at the rate at which we try to destroy our planet..the violent consequences can't be far behind.,,the planet will have no choice..

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  8. Oh that last line superb - hats off to you - i think it may even be glad to see the back of us

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  9. Such a powerfully written piece!!

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  10. Yes, that is the sad truth of it all...

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  11. Wow! AS an incurable romantic, I disagree with the ending, but it shocked me into thinking and thus I LOVE love love this poem. I am sharing it on my wall in FB.

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  12. I agree...a very sad truth as our planet does not care...it will give up a bleak future if we continue to ravage it.

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  13. Simply but powerfully written in a clipped and effective style - great finish too:

    "And yet we must not forget,
    Savage, though scrupulously fair,
    A planet cannot be vengeful,
    It doesn’t even care." Romantic or otherwise and I am too, like Susan... you still hit on something fundamental here... Great write and I especially enjoy your confidence as a writer.. With Best Wishes Scott

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  14. "destroying what is beautiful in a race to own the most." Says it all, kiddo. The planet will have the last laugh. Sadly, only after a lot of suffering for its people.

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  15. Well said...well written...

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  16. I think our planet is just plain tired. I like the tone of this, the well stated reasoning, and the quiet plea for a change before it is too late.

    Elizabeth

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  17. how true; we are parasites to it. well put

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  18. cool piece! Love the idea of people being riders.

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  19. The title is saying all, stones can take all for long....excellent last verse!

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