A massacre of dreams | John Drinkwater

 

When you defile the pleasant streams

And the wild bird’s abiding place,

You massacre a million dreams

And cast your spittle in God’s face.

John Drinkwater (1882-1937)

 

This piece appeared in my 2017 New Year greetings post:

A host of twelve rhyming beauties green / For the months of two-thousand and seventeen 

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Poetry is among the fertile points of the Wave Hypothesis for SUSTAINABILITY Engagement across boundaries

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