Once I was a Fisher - Marking the 9th of September 2023

[Redbeck]

Once I was a Fisher

Once I was a fisher, plied my trade on a swelling sea,
rode the flood tide above shifting sand,
skimming the breakers, let my hollowed boat run free
My catch fed my family on this island

Once I was a fisher, now my sea dies I feel great grief,
losing a livelihood and the food in my hands.
Seven hundred tonnes of oil spilled upon Rennell reef,
killed the fish around these Solomon Islands

Once I was a fisher, in a paradise lost to contamination,
only adding to ecological problems on the land.
Mass logging, bauxite mining ruined this island nation;
destroyed our forests, not as god had planned.

Once I was a fisher, with trees to build a canoe or boat,
now just soil erosion and polluted streams.
Nowhere left to turn for help to keep us fishers afloat,
Nothing but the ghosts of shattered dreams.

A.McTiernan


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[tempocharm]

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[Redbeck]

Dear tempocharm, welcome to the Oracle Forum community, we look forward to many interesting contributions from you, so enjoy your journey into our 973-eht-namuh-973 inner data sanctum created by David Denison, there is a wealth of interesting ground to cover.

Kind Regards Redbeck & D4Dave




Plastic waste overload swamping the Solomon Islands.

[BeN1]

I never knew Dave D is actually a NINE,
pretty interesting,
never thought about that explicitly before.

those pictures of dirty and garbage polluted waters always hit me somewhere deep,
how can anyone see pictures of that and not feel saddened?
all those animals who end up trapped in this and die miserably, cause of humans mistreating nature.
I think as long as we continue to see this in future,
nature will more and more react on it in some way and the homo sapiens should live in harmony with the planet and the nature and not against it.

greetings
BeN1