Four & Twenty Blackbirds +, A Thousand Or Two {*Part 1}

After New Years, it was reported that several thousand black birds had fallen dead from the sky in Arkansas. It was also reported that several hundred miles away, also in Arkansas, several thousand fish had also died without known cause. A day or so after this was reported in the state of Kansas another several thousand black birds were found dead. The causes of these blights upon nature have not been given a definitive cause.

So, pray tell, what was in the atmosphere to cause such massive devastation of wildlife? Will the truth ever be revealed? I, as many have yet, to come to terms with this catastrophic event. How can we? How is it that the earth, quietly, yet violently cries out, for humankind to stop. To stop it's destruction on it's self, & humankind continues to sleepwalk? This can't be real, yet it is the reality of the world we live in. For as always, more questions than answers....

Four & Twenty Blackbirds, Plus A Thousand Or Two

When quite comes

be

still

listen

to

your

heart

When sounds return

heed,

the

call

of

wild

Winds come

winds

go

winds

do

abide,

and

winds,

are

slow,

winds

are

hard

when

winds

do

blow

listen,

Gaia

hear

her

speak

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It has saddened me deeply to compose & then have to share this poem with you. Truly, the collective aching hearts of our beautiful world, are incapable of returning this planet to good form. We can draw a line though, & collectively all, all of us say, & never stop saying- stop, no more, no more, no more. We are being told time & time again by "all of our mothers", Mother Earth, that this way, is not the way.

So concludes this evening's sharing of Poetry A Muse In Motion. When next we visit I will include Part II, of Four & Twenty Blackbirds +, A Thousand Or Two.

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