Oh, Fences

There, beyond the fence lines
amid the birch and firs
I find my breath

Does graze, and fawns skip
as if they are children
chasing butterflies

An abundance of harmony,
ego leads me to believe,
but it is only denial

The bulldozer snorts
and rumbles into view,
deer and I lifting heads

Tails raised, the four-legged scatter,
hide themselves within the brush –
Is such shelter adequate? I wonder

Human demand eroding the green –
We talk about living minimally –
fail to consider God’s creatures

Whose very existence shrinks
within the confines
of expanding fences.

(Image my own)

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VJ

Permission to write, paint, and imagine are the gifts I gave myself when chronic illness hit - a fair exchange: being for doing. Relevance is an attitude. Humour essential.

42 thoughts on “Oh, Fences”

  3. Perfect image, VJ, of this so very important reminder that we live with our non-human friends and should extend kindness and friendship to them as we make decisions with our own movements.

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      1. Yes. I agree. We definitely don’t have lots of old or abandoned, but I love your idea of repurposing. I saw a post, cant remember where. The city took to the trash dumps and created amazing Parkes and botanical garden spaces.

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  6. Every house, every street, every manmade thing is a fence or worse to wildlife. You’ve expressed it so well. And we’re fencing ourselves in, as if we’re not part of nature, too. So silly and short-sighted.

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  13. It is an unfortunate truth that humans do not consider the other creatures sharing this globe, in fact they don’t even consider other HUMANS sharing their land.

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