Image: Elephant Skeleton ~ Mike Richardson When I close my eyes I dream of deepest Africa The Motherland Our ancestral home Where the orange sun rises Over the plantation lands And the hot winds blow Across the Serengeti plains Deep in the wilderness Vultures hover over an elephant graveyard Swooping to pick at the flesh [...]
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The Elephant Graveyard
Posted by cjlevinson on October 17, 2009
http://cjlevinson.com/2009/10/17/the-elephant-graveyard/
One Week Later
Image: Fire in Upper Ferntree Gully ~ jsarcadia This is a follow up to the poem I posted earlier about Black Saturday and the bushfires in Victoria. I wrote the poem as a way of trying to move through the horror I felt in the days following the tragedy. There were so many images, so [...]
Posted by cjlevinson on February 14, 2009
http://cjlevinson.com/2009/02/14/one-week-later/
Hell on Earth
Image: Smoke Clouds ~ Jety Red sunrise burning Wind howling among the trees: Nature is unleashed The beauty of fire: An unstoppable fury Dancing on the wind Eucalypt forest: Ancient trees of memory Scorched by angry flames Smoke clouding the sky: Embers falling like raindrops In the darkest light Twenty years of life Reduced to [...]
Posted by cjlevinson on February 14, 2009
http://cjlevinson.com/2009/02/14/hell-on-earth/
Stand up for what you believe in
Today is Blogging Against Abuse Day. It’s an initiative created by BlogCatalog asking bloggers on Thursday, September 27th to write about putting an end to an abuse they feel passionately about. The goal is to try to form the largest group of bloggers to write about an important cause on the same day, and by [...]
Posted by cjlevinson on September 27, 2007
http://cjlevinson.com/2007/09/27/stand-up-for-what-you-believe-in/
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