WFSC Creative Writing Facilitators, Mike Deregowski and Kelsey Hoople, challenge you to participate in national poetry month. 1 poem per day for 30 days with no working ahead. 😉
Overall theme 'When Life Changes'.
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Day 18 | April 18th | Encroachment
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Encroachment
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Who are you, and why have you come
To bother me with your words and blathering tongue?
I care not for the things you have to say,
Your encroachment on this, my day!
Don't think you have the right to say how it is your way,
For in amongst these wilds and woods
Your words will only lead you astray;
Down a bough-tickled path towards no good -
I would say sorry, but such words mean nothing and more,
For they were the words last uttered, as I say,
Show me the love that once welcomed me through your door -
Ah, but you can't, for time has come-and-gone from that day.
I ask again, who are you,…
April 18th – Encroachment
Cities creep, their boundaries spreading outward
To encompass surrounding areas.
Homes, once farms, now urban.
Forests, once full, now cut down
To make those homes, rebuilt
Upon land where they once grew.
Ironic.
Natured flattened, leveled, driven out of its own home
As humankind, not so kind, takes over.
Companies touting progress and success
Dig mountain tops away – millions of years
In the making, gone in no time – flat.
Ignorant.
The world continues to support its burgeoning population
On a planet with limited and unrenewable resources.
Depleted.
Extinction.
Advancement.
Encroachment.
© Linda J. Pedley April 2021
DAY 18- ENCROACHMENT
Entering
Neighbors’
Compounds
Rankles
Officials
And
Creates
Harrowing
Misunderstandings,
Enmity &
Needless
Trouble
WRITTEN BY LANA O’NEILL APRIL, 2021
Encroachment
Construction next door
New garage and fence
Must be nice not to be poor
Hate I’m jealous over dollars and cents
New structure erected
It all looks fine
Not the design I would have selected
Could really use some wine
Looking at my yard
Smaller than it used to be
My property has been marred
Sure he would disagree
Thought about letting it be
Find common ground
But he found issue with my tree
Made me chop it down
This means war
What else could I do?
Encroachment is going too far
For that I will sue