Image by Susan Cipriano from Pixabay
Each year it’s higher
The distant river invades
The sea eats my house
Someday from a higher spot
I will see where my home was
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Written for Colleen’s Poetry Challenge. This week is her monthly Photo=Prompt. The photo at the top of the page, a row of trees, sunk in the middle of a vast plain of water, is an Image by Susan Cipriano from Pixabay. I wrote a tanka for the challenge.
Trent's World (the Blog) 
A most prophetic tanka, sadly, but am glad to hear your home is safe. Mine is, too, from water at least, as it’s on a hill overlooking the sea, but if they start doing any fracking nearby, it might end up slipping down the hill! Humans…who’d have them? Why are people so short-sighted?
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I’m not sure why people are so short sighted. A few dollars in the hand today is worth so much more than thinking about the future. Glad you are on a hill and don’t have to worry about it.
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Oh! This is a sad poem!
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It is. I hope we do something to make sure the sad reality doesn’t come to pass….
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Excellent, Trent. The seas are rising… I wonder how long before this becomes a normal occurrence?
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The seas are rising. And there has been more flooding all over the world, even away from the seas, which is why I mentioned rivers. Luckily my house by the sea isn’t going to be flooded by any current models until well beyond my lifetime ;)
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Whew! That’s good to hear. Glad your home will be safe!
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Of course if a Cat 5 hurricane hits Cape Cod, no ;) Can’t count those out with how wild the weather’s been!
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No kidding. No one knows what the storms will do either. Scary stuff!
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