Tag: climate change

Haiku & Other Poetry, History, Random Rants, tutto e niente

like sheep

Tina Stewart Brakebill

Like sheep we follow

Ignoring the other’s cries

Till they come for us

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After this past week, I fear (even more than I did before) for the survival of our democracy. When we allow the president to act outside the law, how can we claim to be a nation of laws. When we actively persecute people who are not “appropriately” straight, adequately white, and the “right” kind of Christian, then how can we claim to be exceptional? When we support (or ignore) an administration that consistently places profit over the health and safety of humanity and they very survival of our planet, how can we claim “greatness.”

I fear.

Thanks to  Ronovan Writes for the venue to vent. Our words this week are “sheep” and “weep” for which I substituted ‘cries.’

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Climate Storm v. Storm Windows

Tina Stewart Brakebill

She wondered whether the storm windows would hold. They were meant to keep out bad weather, not … well whatever was falling from the sky. It was funny she used to think the end of the world would come later. After she was gone. Not when her dreams were finally within her grasp.

It wasn’t fair. She had done everything right. And now. Now the sky was literally falling.

Lost in thought, her mind barely registered the hissing as the bubbles burst through the window pane.

As the drops burned through her flesh, her mind screamed “It’s not fair!”

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Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com

Thanks to Carrot Ranch for the inspiration for this 99 word story.

Climate change is real and it’s going to destroy us if we don’t change our path.

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Haiku & Other Poetry, Random Rants, tutto e niente

Deniers (One Year Later)

Tina Stewart Brakebill

Reposting in honor of Fandango’s Friday Flashback . Sadly, just as relevant today.

Deniers

imagine the world

not an abstract perception

melting as we klatch

Written for this week’s Photo Challenge from Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie. Photo credit: Art Universe @ Instagram.

And for today’s FOWC with Fandango

Haiku & Other Poetry, Random Rants, tutto e niente

raging in the light

Tina Stewart Brakebill

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burning with fever

sweet dreams spin into nightmares

raging in the light

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Today’s haiku was inspired by our current situation, the Global Climate Strike, and one of my favorites – Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge. Our words are fever and fierce (for which I subbed in raging).

Listen to the scientists and the kids!