Today's offering to the poetry gods for National Poetry Writing Month is an environmental entreaty to preserve one of the most lovely vacation areas of southern California.
THE BIG BEAR MOUNTAINS WEEP
The trees in the Big Bear Mountains were a source of peace, relaxation and centering for my soul. Looking at the trees would embody a sense of reverence and sacredness like a church within me instead of outside of me. Communing with God. Now those trees are sad, burnt, and angry with the smog encroaching upon their land, choking and strangling them. Causing their trunks to look ashy and fire worn. These trees are failing to thrive like neglected children in the polluted air rising up into the mountains where the air used to be so clean, you could taste the scent of the trees as you drove up the winding highways. the view from the mountains now desecrated by the smog from too many vehicles and factories in the nearby valley of San Bernardino. The land weeps in frustration with its nature lovers for the clean air its losing as nourishment.
Copyright Celena Diana Bumpus
The Big Bear Mountains Weep by Celena Diana Bumpus is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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