Camp Fires and Trees
Blogging U 101 – Blog from a new event. Today’s Author Just Keep Writing Prompt was the first two lines of this poem.
Camp Fires and Trees
They burned all the wood they had in the fire pit
And then started chopping down trees
Soon the forest was losing ground
Gone the home for the squirrels and bees
They moved their camp further in
Seeking shelter within the woodland
The trees they chopped left them exposed
Now safe again in this lush, good land
Time passed by and fires were made
Trees were chopped, their stumps displayed
Squirrels in trees no longer played
Birds searched branches, now entirely flayed
Soon the camp was not enough
They decided to build a wood home
Trees by the dozen were ripped of life
Gone the trees’ canopy dome
A city was built where trees once stood
Concrete towers instead of wood
Birds nest in soffits and wherever they could
The forest now gone, and all of its good
Soon people thought of the smog and dirt
Angry with all the pollution
Seeing the cost of erasing nature
Searching to find a solution
So many animals now forever gone
We try to save, but we carry on
From the smallest ant to the baby fawn
The lakes too filthy for the gleaming swan
From one little campfire to such harsh gloom
Building cities; so much construction
We now have our safety of shelter and home
But nature has suffered destruction
Easter Ellen 
You and I are of like mind. Our words differ but they seem to carry the same messages.
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I agree in your blog I have seen the same thing 🙂 It is always so special to bump into people with similar hearts.
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Yes it is.
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🙂
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I am not a big poetry reader but started to read your poem and was compelled to keep going. Beautifully laid out poem, well thought out and said so eloquently. Parfait!
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Thank you so very much. I struggled with having to partake in another event as I like the ones that I do. The first two lines of the poem were the prompt.. the rest just wrote itself (as usually happens for me).
I so appreciate that you kept going and that you commented on it. It means a lot to me.
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Very Nice, and so true in the words. We (humanity) destroy and then look surprised>
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Thank you so very much for taking the time to stop by and comment. Glad that you liked this 🙂
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A beautifully illustrating poem for a harsh truth. You explained well, the evolution vs the destruction.
Thanks for sharing this.
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Thank you for your encouragement and kind words. I found the story just wrote itself and I liked the result. 🙂
Have a great day,
Easter
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Very well said! And so very true!! I enjoyed reading it. 🙂
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Thank you so very much for taking the time to read this and comment on it. 🙂
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Well done! We did have very different approaches to the prompt, which is the wonderful thing about writing — we’re all different snowflakes. 🙂 I always marvel at the ability to write rhyming poetry. And you’ve done so in such a loving way.
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Thank you so very much for your kind words and encouragement. I love also to see how people see a few words so very differently. Yours carried me to a different place, which is such a wonderful talent (that I don’t at all have), and left me wanting to read more.
I so appreciate your kind compliments.
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You do have a talent for taking readers to another place — don’t sell yourself short! That’s what writing is all about. You do it just by putting words on the page.
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🙂 Thank you, I guess poetry is that as well.. my talent, I meant, is not in writing fiction as you can. I can only write fiction in a more lyrical, rhythmic way. But you are right, it is a story, just the same – thank you for pointing that out 🙂
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Hi easter ellen,
You are so talented. What a great poem. It rhymes well and the poem itself is good. I wish one day could live in the forest. Close to nature. We are lucky we have brains, imagine if we were animals and they were humans. We would know what it means to lose home. thanks for such a wonderful share of poetry 🙂
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Thank you so very, very much for the kind encouragement and the time to give me this wonderful (and very appreciated) compliment.
I, too wish that I could live closer to nature – not the forest, but perhaps the more rural areas of Ontario. I am too close to the city with endless pavement and box-shaped homes, towering apartments, etc.
Poor little animals. My heart really felt for them as I wrote that poem.
Thanks again and blessing,
Easter
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No worries 🙂
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🙂
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