I am (and always have been) with you on this one, Jasmin. Love and peace, mon ami,

Regis

Yes we ravage the Earth, miserable stewards, mankind. Thank you for your big and caring heart and the poetry that expresses so much Jasmin.

i defer to Odin's commentary and concur;
once again, my thinking caring friend,
you make us evaluate what and who we really are
and where our values (if we've any left) lie

bless you every day, Jasmin

john

Yes, humans can be very thoughtless and uncaring about all the beauty that surrounds us.

Donna

You've penned a meditation on the global mentality of "violence" for which there is no other attachment or definition needed. Rape of man, rape of nature, rape of self (too few people even know what the hell it means to perpetrate passionate violence on the self and what it entails in hubristic gall). As to the current debate with man, anyone that subscribes to the extreme right views, where a constitutional amendment is about to be in the works to outlaw abortion completely: "... Republicans approved platform language on Tuesday calling for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion with no explicit exceptions for cases of rape or incest." Apropos of your poem, how many out there think that the rape and pillage of nature will also meet the standard of extremists, rendering all environmental considerations subservient to the power, the greed and the violent nature of the profit barons. Sad. Very sad. BTW, very well worded.

Yes, we have raped Mother Earth too much already and she is reeling in pain. Seen one time to start thinking seriously about what we are doing and carefully chart our course the 21st-century, rather than fall back to earlier mistakes.

Ron

yep current humans are a blight

We ravage, like locusts, billions now,
All she’s given us, beneath we plough,
Death, destruction, we bring her harm,
And ravage all that is(was)her charm.

So powerfully sad, and it's so sadly true.