1907 - Fallow

 

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The Sunday Whirl presented these twelve words for us to use in a creative writing piece. 

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Fallow

The sky was clear,

A gentle wind blew—

Strumming the trees,

Rustling the grasses.

Bees, ants, and butterflies

Went about their business.

Birds flitted from tree to tree.

Animals grazed at ease—

The occasional disagreement

Over mates or territory

But calmly and normally.

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Man, as was his wont, denied

that the world, his home,

Was at risk of collapse.

Pleas for him to be aware

Went unacknowledged

And were quickly forgotten.

Eventually, man faded away.

The planet gave no sigh of regret.

He became the folklore of the herds,

Of the flocks and of the schools—

The inheritors of the wonders

That he could not see.

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