With all of the talk and/or legislation involving restrictions on coal, oil drilling, fracking and other types of mining, on oil and natural gas pipelines, while offering environmental protection for every conceivable plant, animal and insect, we have become heavily invested in “foreign” energy sources that are produced in the very same ways that we have banned here at home. But at the same time we are now relying more and more on nuclear power plants. So I offer this poem for your “consumption” and consideration.
Have a happy ‘hump’ day,
Jake.
How green is your valley?
Two Shades Of Green
“We must go green”
I hear them say.
Yes, it’s the thing
to do today.
“Save the planet!
Save the trees!
Use less carbon
energies!”
“Forsake the coal
and crude oil too,
to lessen the footprint
left by you!”
But, then I imagine
quite a different scene,
also shaded
in the color green.
In which the earth
does not fare well
and we would welcome
that coal-oil smell!
Then all of those slogans
we’d recant,
as the sky glows green
at the nuclear plant!
Jack Downing
Jan. 2014
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I wondered where you were going to go with that title. 🙂
I usually write the poem and then figure out a title for it, so I’m always wondering where I’m going with it too.. lol
Well it seems to work for you so that is a good process!