Let's Start! Poem by Daniel Brick
Let's Start!
The evolution of plant life
is accelerating,
faster even than the botanists
can comprehend. Most of them
have theories, but they keep them
to themselves. They are afraid,
you understand, and the general public
are getting restless. More than one
has been overheard, saying, 'These green things,
and those brightly colored ones, too,
are going to take over. We've got to do
something. Let's start with the big ones -
the trees. They're blocking our view,
so it will be a double win for us.
Let's start cutting right now! '
Daniel- -I love this to pieces - - - well, maybe not pieces because it is magnificent in its whole. I just hope that no body will take you seriously and cut down a shady neighbor- - or perhaps I should say leafy neighbor- - who has hung by our sides through generations of springs, fall, winters, and summers. I love your life affirming poetry, Daniel, as well as that winsome sense of humor of yours! A 10 for this tree-hugging poem and its flag [or pen] waving defender of all things green! ! ! !
Thanks much, Susan! I'm definitely a tree hugger. My cousin in California tells me about trying to hug a Redwood! Yes, we who love green things have to defend them.
I've enjoyed the 2 new poems you've just posted: the first from the child's perspective - a poem filled with the exuberant fantasy and 'positivity' of childhood - , and this one, where such positivity is crushed by the 'negativity' of the ''common thought'' of men.. Maybe, we should remain children forever..
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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5/1/2024 12:59:16 PM # 1.0.0.1119
Ohhh...i hate to see the trees going down. But this is happening everywhere. I like the tone of light sarcasm in this poem. When nothing else works, we get down to cutting. A very thoughtful n thought-provoking write.