Tag: climate change deniers

Haiku & Other Poetry, Random Rants, tutto e niente

Spinning Chaos

Tina Stewart Brakebill

Rising wall of blue

Chaos spins from his still eye

Exodus denied

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Thanks to Susi at I Write Her for a great photo challenge.

I live in Florida, so obviously Dorian has been on my mind for the last week. Feel free to interpret this piece as a statement on that bitch! Thankfully, we got off pretty lucky here, but the Bahamas were hit HARD. If you can, think about helping. They will need it. You can find links to some legit efforts at Bahama Relief .

But I also live in Trump’s America, so (for me at least) my words have another layer of meaning. Feel free to reinterpret them or guess my thoughts, if you’d like. That’s the beauty of poetry.

Plus, never forget he’s either just an idiot or a thin-skinned shallow narcissistic purposefully-uninformed idiot. #Dorian #nevergonnahitAlabama #doctoredphoto #nicesharpiejob

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Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

bones of our past

Tina Stewart Brakebill

to defy ennui

a message in a bottle

washed ashore today

bearing the bones of our past

as starkly bleached harbingers

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This bleak message was written as a response to the image by S. Hermann & F. Richter from Pixabay courtesy of the wonderful Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday Poetry Photo Challenge. Click for details and other contributions.

For some reason, this week’s photo reminded of this old movie!  I think it’s more likely she’ll be covered in rising oceans not sand, but still ….

“Damn you all to hell…”

Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

Burning in Plain Sight

Tina Stewart Brakebill

as we spin a tale   

the beauty of youth turns foul

burning in plain sight

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Thanks to Colleen’s Poetry Challenge for the opportunity to shout into the wind about climate change!!

Today’s challenge was to write a poem using synonyms for the two challenge words. I used “beauty” for pretty and and “foul” for ugly.

Haiku & Other Poetry, Random Rants, tutto e niente

So Much Winning

Tina Stewart Brakebill

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engines went silent

the time to fly was over

mother nature won  

I loved the peaceful feel of this photo by David Kovalenko but it also made me think of the orange one and his minion’s hysterical (and completely untrue) claim (let’s call it what it is—a lie) that the Green New Deal would abolish flying. This weird little haiku came out of that head space.

Thanks Susi. Read more and see the details for the haiku challenge at I Write Her.

Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

Mother Earth: Nevertheless She Persisted

Tina Stewart Brakebill

cracked

Dark seeps through the rift.  

The creator of days persists

Still, the shadows grow. 

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Not feeling particularly hopeful or cheery tonight, but thanks for the inspiration go to Putting My Feet in the Dirt and Sue’s #WritePhoto Prompt

Check out their sites for other great writing.

And as an FYI, the super gloomy shadow shot is mine.