Writing workshop September 2022.
A selection of the poems written during the workshop are shown below. Thank you to everyone who has agreed to have their work published here.
Extreme heat
Man made
Energy excess
Ruined lives
Global crisis
Endless stress
Nowhere safe
Catastrophic consumerism
Yawning gap
…….
Commit
Live differently
Inspire others
Make change happen
Act now
Tell the story
Embody hope
Life on the edge anyway.
Climate pushed them over the edge
Noise;pressure; no time to think.
Outside experience
Poor – not many options/flexibility
Inherited experiences not useful any more. Re-education?
Reduced carrying capacity
World needs to tip. Avoid hopelessness
What to do? Too late to stop it happening.
PLAN – Cities?
ORGANISE
Agriculture – plant in gabions quick grow/harvest
Survey land ara
GOVERNMENT
UNITY, EXPERTISE, SHARE.
Intermediate Technology
FLOOD WATER
A filthy deluge overwhelming all
Undoing the bricks
Levering up the trees
Dampening hope
This arid land is not cleansed
And the struggle is biblical
Yet on they wade through the mud
Praying for a wave of change
Fiona Hilton