Such a powerful statement for the environment which spells out death for everything including us! The central position of us in the poem reveals man trapped between saving the earth and dying. He is capital to the survival of our planet. Thanks for these terse lines that I hope would set those who do not think of our role in our planet to start thinking and taking seriously what we should be doing to save our planet and consequently "US"
This came first from my obesrvation that I've been writing about us (humans - senryu) rather than Earth nature (haiku) lately - hence "ignoring the Earth / focused on us".
The death bit is in part something I've been going through lately, with a depressive episode, whereby I've been realy sad about the very concept of life/death. Even without us, the Earth as we know it will die as the Sun evolves.
It is, also, as you say, an environmental comment, that by being focused on us humans so much, we ignore the earth and bring about the demise of the earth that we know and love in an attempt to escape our own death. To quote a song lyric from The Clouds "escaping our extinction has brought it on early."
I'm very much interested at the moment how living to our full potential in the here and now, in a capitalist consumer economy, has come to mean living unsustainably. We talk green, but live something else. It's a fundamental flaw we all seem expected to share.
Such a powerful statement for the environment which spells out death for everything including us! The central position of us in the poem reveals man trapped between saving the earth and dying. He is capital to the survival of our planet. Thanks for these terse lines that I hope would set those who do not think of our role in our planet to start thinking and taking seriously what we should be doing to save our planet and consequently "US"
ReplyDeleteThankyoy for your coment.
ReplyDeleteThis came first from my obesrvation that I've been writing about us (humans - senryu) rather than Earth nature (haiku) lately - hence "ignoring the Earth / focused on us".
The death bit is in part something I've been going through lately, with a depressive episode, whereby I've been realy sad about the very concept of life/death. Even without us, the Earth as we know it will die as the Sun evolves.
It is, also, as you say, an environmental comment, that by being focused on us humans so much, we ignore the earth and bring about the demise of the earth that we know and love in an attempt to escape our own death. To quote a song lyric from The Clouds "escaping our extinction has brought it on early."
I'm very much interested at the moment how living to our full potential in the here and now, in a capitalist consumer economy, has come to mean living unsustainably. We talk green, but live something else. It's a fundamental flaw we all seem expected to share.