Devolution

The devolution of the human species.

Devolution

 

Many creatures need their trees
it must be understood.
Chipmunks, birds, and honeybees
would perish but for wood.

 

Chirp,

tweet,

buzz, buzz

pollen on the fuzz.

 

Mastering sky, land, and seas,
we ditched our trees for good.
Now we live like rats and fleas
as gangsters in the hood.

 

Rat-a-tat-tat-tat,

rat-a-tat-tat-tat

bang, bang,

boom!

Reviews

[Tom]

Excellent, entertaining poem and the subject matter is a discerning one! Far to many trees felled to fuel man's incessant demand for more and more and in many cases, leaving baron, wasting land behind!

Is conservation even having an effect, I often ask myself ?

[Aethereal]

Thanks for your insightful arboreal review, Tom!

[Tom]

You are perennially welcome my friend!

[lee von cleef]

Ricky Ticky Tavy , what a good snake killer was he.and so is Aethereal !

[Aethereal]

Thanks for your creatve review, lee! A rat-a-tat-ssssss-sss could be interpreted as a snake.

[lee von cleef]

Kipling !!!!!!!!

[Aethereal]

Yes, the snakes charmers of India come to mind.

[SquinklaPsyOps]

Something like a skillful aim at target of the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one's conduct.

[Aethereal]

Thanks for your insightful review, Anika! It’s ironic that most of the violence on Earth is caused by a struggle to the death over the definition of Right & Wrong. Idiotic irreconcilable differences in ideology, and dogma mixed with small fanatical opposing factions in control of weapons of mass destruction tend to drive the peaceful majority towards extinction. The will of the majority needs to be taken seriously. Another problem is that one in five human beings shall have mental problems sometime in their lives and some of them end up as people in powerful positions where they may do catastrophic harm. We must also consider the problem of child abuse whereby young people under 25 who don’t yet have the brain development to make their own decisions are brainwashed into doing violent acts by their psychological controllers.

[Lydia Shutter]

Splendid onomatopoeia in this poem! Sometimes progress is not progress at all, is it? A poem that makes the reader think. Always a good thing! Lydi**

[Aethereal]

Thanks Lydia! Some of us have evolved into monsters.

[Angi]

I long for simpler times and getting back to the natural way of things. I really should have been born in the frontier days. I like this poem and the sounds it brings to my ear. Good work, Aethereal. Angi~

[Aethereal]

Thanks for your nostalgic review, Angi! My distant ancestors where frontiersmen, and they’d be shocked by our world as it is today. They came over from the Netherlands where there was very little land for farming to America where they built a beautiful self-sufficient farm where they lived their dream of being close to Nature. They were happy Dutchmen.

[icelandicblue]

We have moved away from our original gathering selves. I listened to a scientist yesterday who said the urge to gather is still very strong, and we still do it, just not to survive. We acquire "things" we don't need while depleting our resources, habitats and the beauty that surrounds us. If the temperature increases by 3.6 degrees as they expect by 2040 the ice caps are going to melt and the world just might look like Kevin Costner's Water World. We don't think globally and we don't think in advance despite our intelligence. The end is coming but it's not coming from the heavens. It's going to come from all our aberrant behavior. This is a wonderful poem for in its simplicity you have raised the alarm on a complex problem that we better start trying to solve.

[Aethereal]

Thanks for your understanding review, blue! We really don’t know how close we are to the end. If large amounts of methane are released all at once from the melting tundra regions of the Earth, we could be in for a run-a-way greenhouse catastrophe long before 2040. We are messing with forces that we know nothing about just as a mouse would mess with a loaded mouse trap.

[Girl Friday (Sarah W.)]

I like the concept of this piece. I think in many ways you are right on...societal evolution has forced us farther and farther from the roots of which we initially grew. We surround ourselves with plastic and concrete, and then dress up our yards with plants that would not be indigenous to our locations...why? Because we can. We steal from the world and we give little back to her; it is going to catch up with us one of these days. This is one of the reasons why I think art is so important...it is like the last stand of the Alamo, where we write/paint/film/dream about all of the things that are truly beautiful in this world before they are wiped away. Well done.

[Aethereal]

Thanks for this detailed review, Sarah! In spite of our intelligence we still don't get along with Nature as well as other animals do. We really don’t get along with each other as well as we should either as we walk a Weapons of Mass Destruction and Ecological tightrope over the real possibility of human self-extinction. We have always been at war with each other over definitions of Right and Wrong, without understanding that violence and cold indifference in all of its forms is the greatest wrong of all.

[Augustus]

Interesting! Pithy, whimsical write. I like the use of onomatopoeia too. Makes it sound like a playful nursery rhyme. There's a lament hidden here, but it is conveyed in a very casual offhand way. That's why the poem makes one laugh, and then think. Good work! :)

[Aethereal]

Thanks for your detailed review, Augustus! Playful poetry is the best kind.

[bobc]

A...made me smile this one. Playful and serious. Good poem...bobc

[Aethereal]

Thanks for your review, bobc! I happy that it made you smile.