~ Waiting Out the Dry ~
My good friend Jan is posting a trilogy of photos about how the great Australian drought has effected land in her area when I saw this one about the worst of the drought I was shocked and this poem came forth.
If you want to know why Australia only has 20 odd million people – this is why! Most of the country looks like this of late! sure come on over and grab a plot of land – there is no water to truck in and none falls from the sky – Good Luck Mate!
We must stop wasting water WORLD WIDE or the earth will stay like this!
~ Waiting Out the Dry ~ belongs to the following groups:
Australian Bush ☼ (aspects of realistic Landscapes - ie N0 Abstracts or Macros please!), Live, Love, Dream: and WMGThe prayers for rain keep the trees alive
Tears of anguish are hard to hide
Kick the dust and wait for clouds to break
stop please stop – they pass by – such heartache
The tantalizing sweetness is smelt on the air
What happened to Australia Fair?
When the rains do come as they surely will
Will the feed return? Are the seeds good still?
But we’ll get stuck in like our forefathers did
Providing the banks will stay their pound of flesh bid
Boots and all we’ll turn it round
And again raise a living from the ground
deliriousgirl
I read an article about this in a news mag the other day. And truthfully, it’s been really dry and horrid here in the Southern US for the past few years too, with water shortages every summer. But nobody will listen to poor old Al.
adgray replied
My son at aged 7 told me where the water is – in bottles machines toilets swimming pools air conditioners cars …. and he’s right! It takes 7litres of water to make every 1 litre bottle to be filled with water based liquid! every car has 9 litres of water sitting in the radiator , every building has air cons – even evaporative ones are sucking the moisture out of the air every toilet every swimming pool … 30 years ago the world didn’t have all these per house per person! Look at all the cars in car yards look at all the bottles on a supermarket shelf and think of all the pallet fulls in the store room and warehouses all over the world! we haven’t lost water to the salt of old briny we’ve held it up in containers on the land!
we’ve hosed it down drive ways we’ve washed windows and cars watered out of place gardens and mostly just wasted good drinking water because 100 years ago when our plumbings went in there was plenty to go around! – the population has exploded astronomically as have our “Toys” Time we look at putting the water back!
TeriLee
Wonderfully stated….natural disasters seem to be getting more and more common place…droughts floods…tornados hurricanes earthquakes…they have always been around…but recently so much in such short amount of time around the world…..pretty scary really…this is a fantastic poignant piece….great job! :)
adgray replied
Thank you TeriLee
i don’t know if you are old enough to remember the tv shows of Nostradamus – this bloke lived in the 12th century or possibly earlier [cant remember] but he predicted the future of the world. he predicted all the wars to date with nasty accuracy he predicted all sorts of detailed stuff and for now days he predicted the black menace in the middle east creating war [OIL], the weather would become wild causing massive destruction with floods storms volcanoes and earth quakes etc he predicted the great southern land would become dry [now in those days Australia didn’t exist!] and that there would be great bombs destroying all the great capitol cities of the known world. He was so accurate that he knew his skeleton would be exhumed because legend would say 2 soldiers would find it and drink from his skull to also know all that he saw but the man would not live long enough to prove it. So determined to prove his predictions he was laid in his coffin holding a plaque and on it was carved the date he would be exhumed – and he was right!
scarily he is right all the way through – I don’t remember details but from the general knowledge I remember he’s been right! and I’ve noticed the TV shows have not been unearthed or updated.
already the North Pole is said to be melted over summer in as little as 10 years [or something] the great corporate powers immediately started mapping shipping routes through it!
Homo-Sapiens will not learn in time to just not do the damage in the first place! It is not in our nature to think ahead beyond our immediate needs and desires… Due to money. If I could go back in time I would eradicate money and warn everyone never to use the bloody idea! ha! as if!
Well I cant wait for the oil to run out! then let them power their machines and cars and war planes and see where they get to!
You may get the feeling I have no respect for mankind as a species on this planet – and you’d probably be right!
Thank you for your comments on my words :O) Keep Happy! :O)
adgray replied
Soz Teri – didn’t mean to overload on the comment box at you lol :O)
Thanks for reading my words :O) ♥
Kristina K
Nostradamus was so right in so many things its just scarry, and you have written this piece so well adgray, here hoping for rain and some open mindedness on the subject…:) k
adgray replied
Wasn’t he just! :$ I reckon he was a time traveller sent back to try and warn us! lol :O) Thank you Kristina and I hope for rain for you too :O) Chookas ♥
TeriLee
I am so sorry…I read your reply, and my husband and a friend of his came by…we started talking about it all…and …well…I’m a bit dingy…lol…had a long conversation about Nostradamus…..yes…I remember very well….was a fasination as a teen…and it is a bit scary how true so much of what he predicted has come around to be true….and to think….a new “world power” is electing a new leader this year….among all the other similarities in his predictions….yeah…gives my a bit of an empty feeling in my gut….sorry I forgot to tell you I got your reply…it started a huge family disussion over here…thanks :) xo
adgray
WOW that makes me feel good that my words sparked something like that :O) you gotta love the bubble! :O) Chookas all of you! ♥
Jan Stead JEMp...
I can’t say thank you enough Alyssa!!!!
YOu have more than written a poem to accompany yet another bubbler’s image, but have engendered an important topical discussion on a vitally important matter ~ that of water, our oh so precious, undervalued and grossly wasted life sustaining resource!!!
While passionate feelings about the injustice of the disastrous drought and tragic lack of water were certainly in my mind, and there was method in the madness when this shot was taken, I never imagined it would engender a beautiful poem by you nor this incredible and emotive exchange of views and concerns.
I cannot thank you enough…...this is so important and the response here sooooo much more than I ever ever even vaguely wished for!!!!!!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you thank you!
I nearly forgot to say it is a beautiful piece of writing...strong, passionate, insightful, deep, full of vision and masses of meaning….a powerful message!
: )
Miri
good stuff alyssa, it’s so interesting for me coming from the UK where there is upset if there is a hosepipe bad for a couple of weeks! what used to make me mad was seeing the leaky water pipes in the streets! what a waste!