The Silence That Screams
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In primeval forest, earth’s secrets deep lie,
wind whispers soft midst trees hundreds of years old,
as together they praise ancient Gods on high.
With dawn’s first light, avian chorus unfolds
till fractured by din of a chainsaw’s shrill whine
announcing the pillage of nature’s last hold.
From dawn of time, did man and nature entwine
in ageless dance to maintain a fragile balance
yet with man ascendant must nature decline?
Tear not the fabric of earth’s fragile valance
to loose a future of fire, flood and bust
ending with nothing but entropy’s silence.
As round us consecrated soil turns to dust
and machines once mighty waste away to rust.
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2/6/2021
2/16/2021 - mea culpa In my "Tera Rima sonnet" the second line of the fourth couplet did not rhyme with the couplet which followed giving a rhyme scheme of aba bcb cdc ded ff rather than aba bcb cdc ded ee. This has been corrected in the last edit.
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