Oh! Beautiful land so bountiful green
Why have you turned ugly, dirty and mean?
Is it due to the bullets, bombs and grenades
Scarring your cloak of so many shades?
Oh! Beautiful tree once so tall and so proud
With tentacled bough and shady leaf shroud
No longer majestic, imposing or regal
You now lay stunted, broken by evil
Oh! Beautiful flower where can you be?
Your wonderful colours I'm longing to see
Have you been buried in the dirt and decay
Your beauty removed by the wet, clinging clay?
Oh! Beautiful crop, whether wheat, corn or hay
You can no longer grow in land butchered this way
Craters and mines that lay all in a row
Will never allow your sweet seeds to grow
Oh! Beautiful Mother your nature has perished
Gone are your children you so carefully nourished
Have you the strength one more time to regain
Your beautiful landscapes and vibrant terrain?
Oh! Sinister man forever deaf, dumb and blind
To old Mother Nature you have never been kind
Why do you destroy using the follies of war
When peace, love and kindness are better by far?
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Well Lawrie, I didn't know you were a poet too!! This is a really, really excellent bit of writing, not that I'm an expert at poetry, but I know what I like and I just LOVE this! And, I get it ....
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I liked this poem, and I usually hate hippies (jk).
"whether wheat" great alliteration.
Good job using syllables to keep it symmetrical.
Some food for thought, you broke from your rhyme scheme on these lines:
"Oh! Beautiful Mother your nature has perished
Gone are your children you so carefully nourished"
and
"Why do you destroy using the follies of war
When peace, love and kindness are better by far?"
Probably not a big deal, still a good poem.
cheers.
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This something to which I can relate, for I have the same or similar feelings. I cannot answer your questions but sympathise with Mother Nature. She has suffered so much and yet still tries to give the human race all the beauty and bounty she can. It is indeed a great shame we do not take heed of the ways of Nature and amend our own.
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