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Ubiquitous networks of highways crisscross the face of Mother Earth–lines that age her fresh face. Pockmarks of potholes question their durability, whereas Earth lives on, in one form or another.
Dams crack and spill their water freshly across lake beds parched for centuries.
Bones of dinosaurs peek out from eroded banks of clay. Plants spread from potholes in gouged pavement. Somewhere in the arctic ice, the past lies thawing, ready to be reborn.
Who knows but that the
nightfall of mankind may be
a new world’s morning?
I don’t know what I did this week. I seem to have collected prompts from a different week for each prompt site. Perhaps I’ve been at it too long and should retire. The prompt words I somehow collected were highway, durable, ubiquitous and morning. The form is for dVerse Poets haibun challenge.
Darn! I now find even the comments and Mr. Linky for dVerse are closed, even though they say they are open all week. I guess this just isn’t my day, or I am as cracked as the pavement above…..Here are the “wrong” links I used:
https://fivedotoh.com/2018/09/01/fowc-with-fandango-highway/
https://dailyaddictions542855004.wordpress.com/2018/08/26/daily-addictions-2018-week-34/durable
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2018/09/01/ubiquitous/
https://dversepoets.com/2018/09/03/haibun-monday-good-morning/
Your prompts may have come from different weeks, but they were put together nicely!
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Thanks, sgeoil..I don’t know what I did. Crazy. Ironic that one of the correct prompts, once I found them, was “tipsy.” I swear, I wasn’t!!!
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Lol!!
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A grand collaboration of prompts! I like your imagery of Mother Earth’s face and your thought- provoking haiku. Hopefully earth will live on….
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Thanks, Mish. I admit it was a stretch to try to force those words into the same piece. And ironic that after all that, it wasn’t necessary. Ah well. A poem will find its way into your fingertips no matter by what means.
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This is a wonderful collage of the interactions between man and nature!
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