National Poetry Writing Month: Day 2
Like I said, April is a hella busy month. I didn't realise that April was also National Poetry Month ... so, starting from Day 2, there will be a poem a day on the blog, as well. It's a good thing I'm writing a poetry collection, at the moment. You'll get a month's worth of free extracts (albeit in first draft). Here's the first poem of the month: A Debt to Terra Written on April 2, 2018, for the February 8 entry of Another 365 Days of Poetry , this piece is a contemplation on the effects of global warming and how someone from the future might view things as they seek to repair the damage mankind has done to his world. It is set in the same era and universe as the stories from Lunar One. When the north wind blows, it brings the heat and damp, the fingers of another clime, tangling our hair the whispers of another world, the promise rain will come. It makes us lift our heads to seek the first clouds beneath the sun. When the wind shifts ...