by IRENE FOWLER, Correspondent

I’m delighted that Irene has a new poem to share, and asked me to include this greeting:

To read Irene’s poem “The World at Midnight” click:

The World at Midnight

by  Irene Fowler

Fearful to awaken to the rigours of the day, and fearful, of the ghosts, of midnight sleep
In a world of crises, growing, ever deep.

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Fearful for my sovereign, sacred, safe, nesting place in life
Amidst, unending angst, and scary, stress and strife.

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Fearful of Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gamma and Omicron
Absent, a supra-national, virus-defeating hero, like 007 – James Bond.

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Fearful of accelerating, life threatening, climate change
As double-minded leaders, are dangerously short-ranged, or totally estranged.

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Fearful of the Amazon rain forest, slash-and-burn, mayhem and wild destruction of trees
A bio-diversity hazard; depleting prized tiger-cats, dolphins, macaws and honey bees.

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Fearful of biting, gnawing, mass economic deprivations
Leading to perilous, conflict-prone, migration of desperate populations.

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Fearful of wars, and rumours of wars
As world stability flails, flops and drops; accompanied by thunder-clapping, roars.

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Fearful of earth’s upset, and nonplussed, by the escalating space talk
Are the powers that be, stepping out, for a colonizing space walk?

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Fearful of ethnic, religious and political hate-filled, murderous groups
Stoked, by autocratic; leaders, financiers, and deadly shock-troops.

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Fearful of the glorification of violence, racism and misogyny
As predatory white supremacy, targets women of colour, timber and substance: ‘Omar’ and ‘AOC.’

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Fearful of the vile war on history, facts, reality and morality
All hail Fox News! Owning the crown jewels, of reprobate, propagandist, media untruths, and depravity.

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Fearful, forsooth, no longer, of the gloom and iniquity, of the world at midnight
Looking towards the brightest light, for courage, to stand; for the just and right.

© 2021 by Irene Fowler

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