Birth Rights

A look at our certain future!

Granddaughter Payton

Wheat fields wave across the meadow

bright yellow 'neath a sky of blue

Beautiful swaths of sun bleached straw

cut down long before their due

So like the children of our city

colored yellow, red, brown and gold

Living out their lives in dog years

struck down long before they're old

This sickness flows through our land

leaving the helpless and despaired

Where all are made to be thrown out

none are saved or even repaired

When the silent spring finally comes

and all the birds are in a museum

We'll sell our birthright for a song

so children can pay to see them

Then all the beauty will be gone

as our grandchildren run out to play

Not under blue or 'cross the green

but in the trash from yesterday

Written August 13, 2009

All rights reserved

Author's Note

At the rate we are going we are sadly destined as a race for a dry, dusty, polluted, future. Devoid of beauty, music, children or hope!.

Reviews

[AprilRN1210]

you are by far, one of the most talented writers I have had the pleasure to meet.. I absolutely love this.. I love the picture, the font, color, the message, the flow, the rhythm, the imagery, each carefully selected word.. It feels light and hopeful and yet at the same time like a harsh wake up call.. nice job as always..

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you April I smiled upon reading that and felt I had accomplished what I set out to do.I am humbled and honored.

[AprilRN1210]

I am glad I could make you smile.. Your poetry always makes me FEEL.. I love the depth of emotion in which you write your meaningful pieces.. you always walk away feeling like you learned something or experienced something worthwhile... I would say it was a home run with this one sir.. You are more than welcome, my friend.. It is I, who is honored.. :)

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you my friend.

[AprilRN1210]

anytime.. I love reading your work... It is my pleasure..

[Dark Empress]

I do love this and it is so true

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you I wish it werent

[613]

This was such a pleasure to read. (Not necessarily the content, but the way in which it was written).

- Brittney

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you brittney I know it is an unpleasant subject and a reality we all face

[613]

I agree. & you're welcome! I look forward to reading more from you.

[Tate Morgan]

thank you brit

[♔ CrownedDevil &#..]

Brilliant write, Tate. Beautifully written. :)

[Tate Morgan]

thank you madkat

[♔ CrownedDevil ☾]

Your very welcome.

[Jerome F Knox III pseud..]

What an amazing piece of writing this was. Each end stanza connected you and gave your different views looking at the same theme. The ending was brilliant.

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you Rico It is sad to think we will realize this but only after then fact.When I was a child it was not unusual for blackbirds to take off from a cut down corn field and blacken the sky . They and the song birds are all but gone as are the whippoorwills and woodpeckers that dotted our landscape when I was young.just quietly listen for the songbirds on a summers day they are gone . The silent spring is upon us i fear

[Devanshu Rajput]

What you have done in this poetry is that, you have portrayed the truth. We are moving towards a world, which will be a victim of our present. We, are in a state of denial. We, know our future, but we still commit crimes against nature.

I have seen, many people who deliver rhetorics, that, they will never use plastic, will not litter, but aftermath they just do the contrary (Including myself).

This beautifully crafted poem by you, is reflecting our ugly truth. If we still do not change, the doom will consume all of us. It will snatch away the priceless future of our future citizens.

I hope that, people become aware of this and help save the nature.

Devanshu

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you like war these things are hard won and hard learned We as humans will probably ruin it before we realize what we have done thank you

[Devanshu Rajput]

Ya, I am also sure about it. You are welcome.

Devanshu

[Tate Morgan]

thak you dev

[Jerome F Knox III pseud..]

Amazing piece. The opening was strong and the transitions were spot in.

Not under blue or across the green
but in the trash from yesterday....love these lines

[Tate Morgan]

Rico sorry this took so long I have been working a bit was up in michigan thank you sir We will have front row seats to the end of the world as we know it

[Penny]

You should come to India.. and tgen I think you will find this poem more fitting. You see crowd everywhere. People from small towns running to big cities and ones from bigger ones running to a smaller country, all dreaming to earn too much money and live in small apartments. Because we know we are not lucky enough like our forefathers who got big bungalows made in city centres. Cities are expanding, at a rate when outskirts of one will merge with the neighbouring other.. and then there will be no place, no place left for a man to conquer. No lands to be reclaimed from sea, no forests to cut down, only a concrete jungle. You sir, by this poem have rekindled our fears and put a question.. is this future worth living for? Are we sacrificing oir present for this?

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you I know exactly what you mean you would like it here though plenty of open space

[Penny]

My pleasure, though the locality I live in is quite open. Could you believe I live in city and I have cows.

[Tate Morgan]

lol that is sure a strange combination

[Tate Morgan]

You can't keep the human spirit down. A young liberiano blind man who lives in the capital of the country, Monrovia, surprises everyone with his ability to sing reggae with a guitar that he himself built with a stick, a couple of strings and a can of oil. I stand applaud and tip my hat in deference to his ability and character.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQUnoCBZkXY

[Zahra]

Wonderful write. Beautifully penned.

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you zahra thank you very much

[Bright Ocean Star]

Tate, I hate to do it, but I have to completely agree with April. You are such a talented writer. You are such a joy to read. You put a lot of thought into each and every line, color, picture, song. You put the whole page together like the work of art it is....and we are the better for it, because we get to sit back and soak it all in. Beautiful job, Tate. I love it. 100/100

[Tate Morgan]

You truly make me smile thank you perhaps i will persevere to write a new book.What are any of us if no one likes our works? I humbly thank you from the depths of my soul
Tate

[Bright Ocean Star]

You are welcome....:)

generations my dear... didn't catch the mistake till... I hit submit..