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21. The Great Barrier Reef
Do you care
If the
Vitality of the
Earth is
Reduced by
Slow degradation of ecosystems?
It should
Tear at
Your soul,
Making you feel the loss
As if a part of you were
Taken,
Tossed,
Erased,
Removed,
Stolen.
©Mary Lee Hahn, 2014
Carol's Grand Canyon poems are as metaphorical as mine was, and deeply spiritual.
Kevin is pondering metaphors in his post and poem today.
Mine today:
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Kevin
Wow.
ReplyDeleteThis is an amazing poem, Mary Lee! Thank you so much for sharing it! = )
ReplyDeletePowerful poem. That last word grabs me. Stolen. Such beauty. I showed my students a video from Wonderopolis and they wrote poems about the reef. Awe inspiring.
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ReplyDeleteThirty species of whales
dolphins, porpoises-
dwarf meinke,
humpback and
fifteen hundred fish,
coral trout, red bass
striped sturgeon
clownfish and
six species of sea turtle—
green, leatherback,
hawksbill, loggerhead
olive ridley and
saltwater crocodiles
sharks, stingray, skates
nine species of seahorses,
seven kinds of frog and
four hundred coral—hard and soft
Five thousand mollusks
seventeen species of sea snake,
White bellied sea eagle, roseate tern
Twenty one hundred plants,
three endemic,
Fifteen species of seagrass…
How can we do nothing?
© Carol Wilcox, 2014
A great and direct piece of information. Hats off to the author for gathering so specific and spot on information.
ReplyDeletethe applause in the comments do the justice. Great piece of information.
What a lovely picture AND I like the acrostic.
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