Tears of the Ancients
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, photo, wisdom
Tears of the Ancients
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the bones
of nature’s rivers
borne away
on strands
stained
with the ghosts
of salmon
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rob kistner © 2008
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photo above entitled: “Drawing Lines in the Sky” — by: Martin Kingsley
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…inspired by the hydro-electric dams choking the mighty Pacific Northwest rivers
and by read write image #3, found at “readwritepoem”.
November 20th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
haunting and lovely
November 20th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
This is completely different thinking. How did you manage to correlate this to the picture. Amazing one!
November 21st, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Jeeves -
As I live in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, I am exposed to the ongoing controversy here, regarding the deadly damage that hydro-electric dams are doing to the population of native salmon — and other wild fish of the region.
The dams are a huge deterrent to the salmon’s natural spawning cycle. Each generation of salmon grows smaller and smaller in number…
They are a fish very important to the native tribes, as well as the commercial and sport fishing industry here in the Pacific Northwest.
When you drive near these dams you see field after field of overhead electric lines, like the ones in the image featured in this week’s read write image prompt. That image inspired my poetic lament.
…rob
November 21st, 2008 at 3:25 pm
T&T -
Thank you for your kind words…
November 24th, 2008 at 8:37 am
turtledoves and tofu is right–haunting and lovely are the exact words to describe this.
December 4th, 2008 at 3:44 am
What a tragedy. This is a moving lament, Rob.