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Chill Wind
by jude Saturday, Apr 16 2016, 10:47pm
international / poetry / post

a chill ideological wind blows
across the endless cultural plains
denuding them of diversity,
fertility, colour and abundant life,
which reality inevitably leads to
impoverishment

without abundant, diverse growth
the soil loses its ability to nourish
and today the plains yield only a stunted,
homogenous, ignorant and illiterate
grass stubble lacking any nutritive value,
which result threatens the continuation
of all life

and so today the world faces starvation
and famine
not of the belly but of the mind,
and as we know, a starved mind
leads to a starved, incapable body
which advertises its own demise

it has been well said that
its all been written in the wind