Life Beware!
Steel mills belching smoke into the lifeless horizon
orange cotton candy clouds offering no smiles
through the evening soup, the shorebirds flew
black specs flung against the colorful stained canvas
the unfeeling glorious sunset silhouetting
a sky painted into a death grin.
Life beware!
© Rebecca Sanchez 2017
Although we’ve all had our share of bad news I took the dark artistic route. I had this animation of mine and wanted to use it. This vision is only cautionary.
Written with Poets United.
Capricious Poet 
Cautionary indeed! Brilliant animation.
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Thank you, Rosemary. I’m sorry I’ve been absent lately I’m trying to make time to read and write. Hugs!
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Beware indeed! Loved your take on the prompt!
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Thank you, Sanaa! I’ll be around to catch up on your poetry last week got out of hand for me so I didn’t get to read much. Hugs!
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Those orange cotton clouds are unsettling and yet hold a beauty – a sense of changing bad into good
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I hear you, Jae! Last week I didn’t get to read much so I apologize. I’ve been trying to make more time for writing it’s been difficult lately. Hugs!
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‘death grin’ is chilling but true…good cautionary words for the years ahead…
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Things are being improved every day so let’s hope so, Sumana! I didn’t get to read much the last week, I’m sorry I didn’t make it to your poems I’ll do better. Hugs!
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Love the animation! Looks like we both took the dark, cautious route.
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I’m afraid last week I didn’t get to read much. I will have to check it out. I took some time off from writing when life got busy and am trying to get back to it. Hugs!
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Humans in general are so stupid as to be incaplable of looking beyond the near future hoping their own rich life can be maintained whilst forgetting the consequnces of their actions. It is so strange that they think nothing of their childrens futures where climate, population, food and may well be compromised thinking that dollars in the bank will suffice for their own. We plan for everything except the future existence of life on Earth.
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So true, Old Egg! Why have children to pass things on to when the world around them is crumbling down? I never had children and for me, it was a choice I never regretted. I don’t dislike children, but at this stage of life I could never have a child trying to live with me I can barely support myself! Lol! Kidding aside, I would be very upset if I did have a child, handing this world over to them. Big hug!
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A cool animation which works so well with the poem. It is cautionary, but actually happening as well. When I drove into town this morning, pulp mill smoke was billowing up against the blue sky…………
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I hear you there! I wrote this about the steel mills in Indiana on Lake Michigan.
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The question is: Are we smart enough, determined enough—and humble enough—to heed the warning?
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Will it happen in time?
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A timely caution. We will have to be able to imagine brighter futures. Perhaps this powerful warning will help!
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Thank you, Susan!
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