Happy Earth Day!

Our prompt today, inspired by Earth Day, is to write a georgic, or at least a georgic-like poem. Happy Earth Day! Let's all do our best to save our shared home!

There once were trees

There once were trees

Across the land,

As far as the eye could see

Some men came

And chopped them down

To build their homes, you see

Some more men came

And chopped more down

To learn and learned be

But though they learnt

And saw the bare land,

They did not care to see

That the animals and birds

Moved on 

And some were dead, not free

Soon, man could not breathe 

As well as he could before,

Soon, he too would not be

But it's not too late to fill that land

With more trees 

As far as we can see

Or would you like to tell your child,

As I tell you now,

"There once were trees here, 

but they're no more to be"?

Andrea Vermaak