Your fields are empty now.
Only your ghosts dance
while cranes of another kind
dance cities into being.
All that remain of you are
a fading crackle of your energy
and some grainy video footage
that people in the new cities
will watch to marvel
at the wonders the world
once held.
The International Crane Foundation works to protect crane species across the world.
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18 comments:
good one Juliet--I saw two storks along the road in some collected rain water in a low spot this past week. Just passing through I suppose. I never have seen that here--felt honored.
How sad this is happening to so many of nature's creatures.
Touching poem about this increasing problem.
apoignant account of stark reality... the cranes of that other kind appear to multiply exponentially here...
:D
Oh, Juliet, this is so sad. So many beautiful species are now a distant memory, with many more joining them. What kind of a world will it be without them?
Development - is it really progress?
Scot - thanks, I'd love to see storks and yes if I did I'd feel honoured...
Janice - thanks and yes it happens more and more
Polona - we've got a lot of the other cranes here too, we can see several from our flat...
Noah - thanks
Selma - a vastly denuded world, I'm sure, its tragic
Stan - development isn't always progress, you're right
There is one Crane species that is doing well and that is the Sandhill Crane. They are very numerous in Florida from wild areas to city parks. I've even seen them raising young in business parking lots and golf courses.
The comparison between the birds and the construction cranes is very well done. I like the image.
Very sad - hard to live with.
this gave me shivers.
This poem has its own crackle of energy flowing with an irresistible
rhythm to its sad conclusion
Sometimes we dwell on the negatives too much. In many ways we are responsible for destruction of nature. However, I feel that not lways. Nature too does not do badly to harm itself.
Maybe it is a start of a new world? Who knows..
tunneled view
Gautami - I think humans are responsible for damaging nature far more than nature herself is responsible for the damage - certainly in terms of large scale destruction.
I try to balance positive with negative in an overall sense in this blog. Yes some posts are negative but others are positive.
i love the symbolism here. we have way to many cranes of the other kind where i live; wherever there's a tree, a crane comes by and takes it out to build a strip-mall or something...very, very nice, but sad poem:)
I like this poem best
I like this poem best
Hello Juliet,
It was just an accident to read your poem `The Lost Dances of Cranes´Few lines yet powerful with naive truth! As a teacher to my students,I know how much I have to be responsible to them to render the poem.Piercing the heart into many! Let us be the protectors not the protesters of the Nature!
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