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W3 Prompt #190: Wea’ve Written Weekly: Back to Nature

W3 Prompt #190: Wea’ve Written Weekly
https://skepticskaddish.com/2025/12/17/w3-prompt-190-weave-written-weekly/

Back to Nature

At night I sit and stare at the moon
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
The stars don’t shine bright as they did before
So many lights they are hard to ignore
Noise is there too, from trains to big cars
Can’t put away noise, not that many jars
The rivers run brown with sludge and some silt
Trees will not grow and the flowers do wilt.
There once was a Lorax who spoke for the trees
We need that guy back, we can say please
Please help us get back the earth that we knew
With beauty and hope and skies of bright blue.
With plenty of trees for all of those bits
of animal life, won’t some call it quits?
Quit filling the air with junk we can’t breath
Stop filling the food that rots out our teeth
Lets go back to simple, to freshness, to life
Where the basic is plenty, ignoring the strife.

©2024 CBialczak

Sally’s prompt guidelines

William Wordsworth wrote “The world is too much with us,” and honestly… same. The holidays tend to sharpen that sense of disillusionment with materialism.

Below is Wordsworth’s sonnet. Choose one phrase from it and steal it—boldly and poetically. Weave the phrase into your own poem in any way you like; it should be recognizable, but the poem should be yours.

Your poem doesn’t need to be a sonnet, but in a nod to the form, limit yourself to 14 lines or fewer.

Old words (Wordsworth’s).
New poem (yours).

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