Throwback Friday, We Are Not Worthy, Nor Grand, by Ivor Steven

During our present horrific warring times, here is an appropriate old poem that I wrote many years ago

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In my computer files, this poem was is recorded as being from June 2018, but the original piece was from years earlier, when my poems were stored in cardboard boxes on the bottom shelf of my bookcase.

We Are Not Worthy, Nor Grand

The Time-travellers have been and gone

Transcending the stars and beyond

Leaving us The message carved in stone

Obvious warnings, pointing the bone

“You are not worthy, nor grand

to care for Mother Earth’s beautiful land”

Decrying our humankind’s faults

Locking our world’s children in vaults

Poisoning our plants, rivers, and seas

Contaminating the air we breathe

Burning our forests

Vehicle fumes

Nuclear bombs

Rulers greed

Before we even feed

Our fellow-man

Slaughter upon slaughter

Like we’re lambs

Guns and bullets

Millions for every bloody stand

Like seeds in our hands

Not giving life, only death and sand

We are not worthy, nor grand

It’s time, to…

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G'day, and welcome to my blog site. My name is Ivor Steven, I live in Geelong, Australia. I'm an ex-industrial chemist, and a retired plumber, and a former Carer of my wife(Carole), for 30 years, who suffered from severe MS. I Write poetry about those personal thoughts, throughout and beyond my life as a Carer. I've been blogging for over 2 years, and writing poems for 19 years. Of course a lot of my poems are about my favourite subject Carole, but since I've been blogging my writings have become quite varied, humourous, mystical, observational, and even a few monster/horror poems.

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  5. And yet, we humans, are still, raping Mother Nature, taking from her, greedily, ruining the environment, and, maybe, that’s why, there are now, more natural disasters such as earthquakes and hurricanes, tornadoes, etc., etc., compared to, say, a decade ago…

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  7. I think the Maya glyph photo goes well with the poem. Astronomer Neil DeGrasse Tyson likes to say that the reason we haven’t been visited by people from other worlds and they look at earth and say, “there’s no intelligent life down there” and fly away. If we’re so smart as a species, why do we pollute our world and wage war? Glad to have met you through the share today. Thank you for following Fake Flamenco!

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