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· The Kite That Would Not Bow

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Wondering If...

by Odin odin@aflx.com — Read all 3,869 poems by Odin odin@aflx.com

Teachers of some of our most hard-fought unlearned lessons remain right under our noses---and feet. (Image by flickr)

Monday, April 13, 2020


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Wondering If…

 

As ice
Becomes oceans' worst enemy

Drought
Defies climate change dissenters

Famine
Knows not organic-rich earth

Animals
Wait to become endangered

Privileged humans
Gorge on entitlement hubris

 

Will the global rich
Perpetuate further ignorance

Will you and I
Act before it's too late

Will the disenfranchised
Have the will to rise up

 

Factoid alert

Survival takes tenacity and wisdom

 

The ant
The rat
The cockroach
Know well civilization's habits
Enabling their minuscule societies to remain intact

Still

Do we not wonder if
We can beat the odds

 

 

 

 

 

 



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Reviewed on April 14, 2020
Your words say it all, Odin! Perhaps they should study the enzymes or fluids of these "minuscule societies", eh? Great writ!!

Love ya!

Jane

Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on April 14, 2020
I think we have all been doing a lot of wondering lately as you have been wondering in this poem. Indeed, as you say, we have much to learn from nature, from the ant, the rat and the cockroach, and so much more. If we do, yes, we will beat the odds as they do.


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