Monday, July 15, 2013

Photograph of a Red Wood Stump -- in Sepia--By Suzanne Delaney--United States

Photograph of a Red Wood Stump -- in Sepia

“The Stump Hotel,” has made a natural beauty look inglorious.
Like an amputee whose prosthesis could never recapture the
living limb or a whisper of its vitality.

A metal balustrade now mocks the space
where its trunk once soared toward the moon,
and the long stairway, and a sign and a doorway,
are fashioned from – the remains of a brother tree.

There is no answer for this desecration, but to make lightly of it.

Someone will lampoon and build a monument, to what?
Man’s stupidity, or perhaps this final mockery.
Making use of it all

Suzanne Delaney is a retired Registered Nurse. A resident of Hawaii, USA she was born in Tasmania. She now has time to pursue her passion for writing poetry, creating collages and for traveling.

4 comments:

  1. Good visual - last stanza is full of truth. Nice reading...

    Rhoda Galgiani

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  2. Hi Suze -

    To desecrate a giant redwood sure gets my dander up.

    love,
    Kathy

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  3. How well you have caught the unfeeling corporate attitude of the modern world, Suze. When will we ever learn that Nature knows best.
    Jan x

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  4. Thank you all for you wonderful comments.
    The photograph that I based this on, can be seen here on my website.
    http://pixordia.pages.qpg.com/id4.html

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