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Stop Mountaintop Removal or: Cease the **** of Mother Nature

To the limits!

And the heaves are harmed, in our lungs

and arms. Tendons flexed on their utmost,

and breath at play in the drowned coast.

 

To the shores!

And the leaves are left as specks of colour,

from the moors.

and vacations left the hinterlands

of the decayed, breathless holler.

 

For the greater good we stood as imagined heroes,

Yet for happenstance to lend a chance in our woes,

required a great many motifs

to clamour and climb

In glamourous time

to the raised butte

of a finishing sublime.

 

Modulate the past and harmonize the future.

Together tapestry'd, akin to patchwork suture.

 

We weren't raised this way.

To remain forever at play, workhorses neigh.

And sawing brilliance and sawdust eyes,

rapier wit with no equal.

But together a two-parter,

to the shores to see the sea quell.

 

Wildfire lick like lit flame.

Burn it all down and give me the blame.

It's a carried burden worth the worry.

 

In mountains some exist as prideful barons.

Barring the loss of their barren,

their smiles turn smirks of heathen carrions.

Which is fine, and the motif licks again.

And the motive is sublime; it's only sin.

 

Cherish the children and their rue of thresher-born,

Thomas Ligotti and his party of philosophy,

but I'm too caught in histrionics to allow the matter

to matter.

Beyond the kicking feet of the mirthful pitter-patter,

pitted against the coming solstice of time saving;

forward and back and ouroboros we may.

Hold on tight to this singular day.

Ignorant of the causes of our own decay.

Lost during summers covered in spittle and seaspray.

Only to mount a return, a loss,

to the area most unaccepting of the cost.

 

To the mountaintops!

**** what you see, and reap what you sow.

Push the mountains down into the crow,

and call out for the all the denizens below,

"Here's another landslide." As you call; Heave, and **

Pile them neat and plant a seed,

of a tree that hasn't belonged or had a chirped song

in a placidity.

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Written by
jm_him
M / Appalachian born
Published
Aug 5, 2018
Lines·Words
52·341
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Awareness for a dying region

https://i.imgur.com/qUkjevo.jpg

Tags
#west#virginia#wv#appalachia#mountain#mountaintop#removal#coal
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