In this year of the horse I want to see a new system of decision making. I want everyone in our country having the opportunity to design the future they see for Ireland.
Now that I have done the shedding for the year of the snake, I am happy to move on to the year of the Horse with a new lease of life – the year that brings “good things”. I spent a lot of 2013 writing poetry capturing some of my anger, worries and fears, my anxiety for the future – for my children’s future.
So what good things lie ahead I wonder? I know Irelands energy will be a major focus for me and I do hope good things emerge. Another change will be in local government and hopefully an environmental focus to development.
In the meantime here are a selection of my skins from last year 🙂 Expect to be depressed if you do read them but they are the clutter that must be cleared to make way for the “good things”. Warning – may contain anger, worry, fear and anxiety!
Evolution
Why don’t we listen? “Slow down” they say
Keep the oil for another day
We drill and drill, burn even more
Bringing destruction to our very own door
We’ve heated our planet, nearing a boil
Putting more stress upon our washed out soil
The rains, they come much stronger now
The fields are mud, harder to plough
The ice it is melting, going away
The forests are dying, death and decay
Species are lost, ne’er to be found
Plants are extinct, dead on the ground
What of man, what is our fate
Shall we survive this climatic state?
Will we evolve at the required pace
Or is it an ending that we must face
Why should we differ? Why should we live?
This plight on our planet, we did give
Yes, it would happen in many’s a year
But we have pushed it and now it is here
Life on earth without a chance to evolve
We sped up this warming, we cannot solve
Slow and steady had been the pace
Evolving to match it, each and every race
We are mere blight on this planet so green
How could this warming have been foreseen
How could we know what “progress” would do
We went with the flow, we grew and we grew
Is extinction where we head on this trip
Have we the courage to put the skids on the ship
Let Mother Earth repair and renew
The fate of our species is up to you
Theresa Carter March 2013
Fighting Dandelion
Laying a path, cement on the ground
Roads and laneways all around
Earth we suppress, cover and hide
Pushing it further, away from mans side
Another tree fallen as the bulldozers roar
Buildings appear ever more and more
Structures replace, once were the woods
Now we have houses, whole neighbourhoods
Yes, we must learn to live side by side
A place for all species, no one should hide
But we are growing at such a fast rate
Destruction of earth must abate
There on the pavement, it peeps through the crack
A solitary dandelion is fighting back
It has fought to reach for the sky
Seeds in the wind, determined to fly
When man moves on, or turns away
Another piece taken, natures bid to stay
Bit by bit it is reclaiming it’s patch
A fight for survival every day it must match
Theresa Carter March 2013
Frack
Drilling down to break the core
Pump the water and some more
Break the rock, release the gas
Allow the fuel along the pass
All this water down a hole
On earth and rock it takes it’s toll
Spread throughout to burrow deep
Through the layers it will seep
Drowned in chemicals despite what they say
Pumped at speed to clear the way
Arsenic, toxins, gas and radon
A cocktail of poisons has been laid on
What of the future, generations unborn
What of their welfare, is it forlorn
Where in this plan do our children stand
Left with no water and a vast waste land
Theresa Carter April 2013
Dead Earth
The tracks are new, the earth is turned
Spring is here and the land is churned
Deep brown muck, clods of clay
Become the base to grow the hay
Somethings missing from this land
Earth and worm used go hand in hand
Not anymore, as the birds will tell
The worms have turned, the lands not well
They should not leave, I wish they’d stay
However they don’t like the spray
It kills the microbes that keep them fed
Without this food they too are dead
Not one bird to be seen
As not one worm has there been
Theresa Carter March 2013
The start of the shedding https://theresaleaf.wordpress.com/2014/01/02/clearing-out-clutter-why/ as I wrote to my lovely children for whom I worry.
Guest blog on It’s a Political World – Why I’ve Stopped Arguing Climate Change http://itsapoliticalworld.wordpress.com/2013/09/29/why-ive-stopped-arguing-about-climate-change/
TheresaOD.com 
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