Slash and Burn

sonnet in Iambic tetrameter

 

 

 

Slash and burn.

 

Devastation, desolation

 uncontrolled deforestation.

 A policy of slash and burn.

 What men destroy cannot return.

What man despoils he can’t replace.

Though where he’s been he leaves a trace

Vast tracts of semi desert ground

where very little life is found.

Undoes the work of centuries

 Creates a wound that will not heal

 When he cuts down the forest trees

There is no way he can appeal

Dame nature has the final say

 he has sinned and he must pay.

 

9-Aug-08

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Reviews

[Lee E. Powell]

It is so true. I don't really know anything about poetry except that i know when I like something and I liked this.

[Tomás Ó C..]

Nature will survive when mankind is long gone...