Tag: Flood

Winter chill

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The north wind cuts hard

on the waterlogged landscape

in this warmest year

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by Scooj

  • The weather has always been an English preoccupation, but with the climatic impacts we are now experiencing, there is a perverse excitement of doomsday ecstasy peppering our media and conversations. Climate change – the gift to ourselves that just keeps on giving.

Unrelenting

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Heavy rain all day

streams either side of the road

the stuff of flooding

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by Scooj

Extremes

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From flooding to drought

extreme weather more often

from drought to flooding

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by Scooj

Catastrophe

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It’s raining indoors

cold water elbow joint slipped

flat below flooded

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by Scooj

Flood

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A long time ago

back in 1882

the Frome burst its banks

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by Scooj

 

Read about Bristol Floods

Dynamic age

Age of droughts and floods

age of rising sea levels

age of migration.

by Scooj

  • I added two seven syllable lines to convert this into a Tanka, but I felt it just a little too sanctimonious. They were:

unless we do something now

this will be our legacy

Flood

 

All hands to the pumps!

This Winter’s rallying cry;

more records broken.

 

by Scooj

Climate change

 

More extreme weather

more frequently is what the

experts predicted.

 

by Scooj

Upstream thinking

 

Upland tree planting

arrests runoff and flooding

of unfortunates.

 

by Scooj