<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448647" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Progress?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was this struggling; <br>a knife-sharp shovel blade<br>dug deep in Earth's rib-cage. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">tall tree limbs severed<br>which dropp to the ground; <br>habit homes invaded<br>and brook arteries polluted; <br>by drugs and poisons.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The warming eye of sun-<br>blinded by carbon rain<br>and stinging neon gas<br>make sun-sets<br>and sun downs<br>red red red.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The animals<br>flee<br>to hovels<br>beneath<br>the shrinking ground<br>and pavements slather<br>on more and more concrete.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mountains recede<br>worn down; <br>the ocean waters<br>rise to heal the scars<br>to take back the<br>dusty dry lands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Smoke stacks <br>and coal pits; <br>Nuclear plants<br>and nuclear fission.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All this<br>as the Earth sheds<br>a near final tear, <br>weeping<br>asking: <br>is this <br>Progress?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448647" data-title="Progress? de Lonnie Hicks" data-description="There was this struggling; a knife-sharp shovel blade dug deep in Earth's rib-cage. tall tree limbs severed which dropp to the ground; habit homes invaded and brook arteries polluted; by drugs and poisons. The warming eye of sun- blinded by ..."></div> </div> </div>

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