I jumped into Colleen Chesebro’s Tanka Tuesday Weekly Poetry Challenge with a Reversed Mirror Double Etheree. This week’s challenge is a #Themeprompt – The Day After.
The Day After
The beginning of the new world order.
Breathe in the glorious gift of life.
We remain distanced, gloved and masked.
Behold, our new world awaits.
Taking in the outdoors,
People emerging,
Unshackled gates.
Aftermath.
The day
Came.
The
New gifts
Presented.
Our creator
Replenished the world.
Rivers and streams run clear,
Black sooty air has vanished.
Take a glimpse and taste of the world.
Savor it and drink it in, listen.
Take heed, yesterday is gone – welcome home.
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©DGKaye2020
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How amazing you are, Debby – this is fantastic. Toni x
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Wow, thanks so much Toni. I do like to jump in to these prompts when I’m inspired. Usually the story pops out to me, I draft the story then edit into poetry. ❤
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Debby, this is beautiful. ❤
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Thanks so much my Lovely ❤
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A beautiful and powerful poem, Debby! It’s amazing to see how the earth has flourished in our absence. I hope everyone has learned the lesson that we need nature, but it doesn’t need us.🥰
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Absolutely my friend. We must keep reminding! ❤
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There has been some speculation about what these lock downs are all about, Debby. A new world order with less harmful industries may well be on the cards. A lovely poem.
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Thank you Robbie, and thanks for your shares. We can only hope! ❤
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That is so how I feel. I don’t think humans are meant to be locked away. We don’t do well with that.
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Not usually, but lots of lessons to be learned from this. 🙂
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What a hopeful poem. I just read your interview with Judith, and now find you here. WOW!
Thanks for this splendid etheree, Debby! I dabble in haiku, but you inspire me to do more. 🙂
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Thanks so much Marian. You should hop on to some of Colleen’s fun weekly challenges 🙂
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Amazing piece, Debby. Amazing! xo
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Thanks so much Natalie ❤
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Deb, this is powerful and beautiful. Well done. Very inspiring. xx
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Thanks Lis. ❤
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Sis, this is a lovely poem reminding us of the good things this virus has given us. I still think the mother goddess created this situation to make us sit up and take notice. Let’s all pray that we learn something from our plight. When we beat down the evil, we will have a fair chance. ❤
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Absolutely, so mote it be! 🙂 Yes, that’s the message, to take a look around and inside. ❤
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Fabulous Debby and so powerful… nature has certainly taken full advantage of our exclusion and I hope that it manages to hold on to some its reclamation as humans reenter the world.. ♥♥
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The cards are in our hands Sal. Hopefully, the world will take heed. Thank you. ❤ ❤
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This is wonderful, Debby. I do hope we can learn from this and make some of these beneficial changes permanent.
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Amen to that Norah 🙂
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Quite right for the times and true too.
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No doubts! 🙂
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Beautiful poem, Debby! It reminded me of a video I recently watched. If you haven’t seen it, I bet you’ll like it as well: https://youtu.be/OQadHRfum28
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Wowwwwwwwwwwww, thank you for that amazing story! “The Great Realization: – We all preferred the world we found than the one we left behind.” ❤
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