Just because it's askin' for responses!



the word possesses s-l-o-w-e-d me down, maybe because I'm slow, but maybe because it's an awkward word. I like the end rhyming. And of course the consumeristic content it thought provocative.

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Replying to:

The Making of the Desert




In these last blistering days


before the growing desert possesses


what is left of green,




we wonder at what we have made,


we reflect on what we


have inadvertently built from our greed.




So this barren plain ridden raw by the sun


is where our quest for more and more now leads.


Now we see what endless appetite breeds.

I think your right! There are a lot of better words out these. hmmm... maybe "devours" or "evicts" hmm.....

Thanks Irma,

M.D.

I really thought your poem was great,very different.