Edgy

Posted on Categories Uncategorized 
Edginess
wanting to be free
of detailed
drudgery
A melting river rising
sweeps away debris.

                                                      
                                 ©2017 Ontheland

River is the theme word for Tuesday Poetics at dVerse Poets Pub.  My tiny offering is a Shadorma (3-5-3-3-7-5). 

Published by Janice

My name is Janice.  I started blogging as Ontheland when I moved from Toronto to a rural area near Kingston, Ontario in Canada.  Over time I have found myself writing poetry, mostly in Japanese forms, such as haiku and haibun.  One of my deepest interests is the natural world: the joy of it and how we can look after it better.

23 thoughts on “Edgy”

    1. I love your read of this … hard to believe perhaps but I wasn’t consciously thinking the environmental angle…waterbanks and roadways can be bleak sites of human debris especially after snowmelt.

      Like

      Reply

      1. It’s true, most of the stuff stays on the bank, but if there are storms as well as high tides, you get all sorts of rubbish floating down the river. A sort of parading of dirty linen in public.

        Liked by 1 person

      3. All the major waterways are polluted to an extent, we just don’t always see it. Look for what lives in them. All the stuff that farmers spray on their crops ends up in the water system, and the Roundup that people spread willy nilly over every little weed in their gardens;

        Liked by 1 person

Leave a comment