A Poem About The Environment

WILDERNESS IS ANYTHING BUT WILD


Wilderness is anything but wild.
It is an artifact of modern life.
Longing for innocence, we are beguiled,
Determined to re-virginize our wife.
Eons of humanity were there,
Resident in each ecology.
Nor can we go back further, for nowhere
Exist the plants and creatures we would see.
So we create what never was, a place
Set aside as a reserve for grace.

By: Nicholas Gordon

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Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. The poem appears on the Web site Poems for Free (www.poemsforfree.com) under "Environment" (www.poemsforfree.com/environmentalpoems.html) at www.poemsforfree.com/wilder.html