Rivers no longer flow into
Oceanic caldera boiling reduced to
Simmer steam open sea evaporation
Lid pried off plug yank
Seeping moisture slowly dried up
Still life seascapes drained mercilessly
Wave swells lay dying on
Distant shores naked refuse exposed
No longer fit for habitation
Swimming scuba diving breathless drowning
Moving with vanishing ebb drift
Windswept continents kept off balance
Detritus rained down upon decomposed
Sunken graveyards spent cockleshells clutter
Bittersweet rusty oasis eaten away
Embedded clay fossils left behind
No creature as deadly as
Spitfire raging sun’s relentless scorch
Medieval alchemy cockeyed maritime portent
Unfathomable geological omen empty forevermore
This Thaidings of Joy PoeArtry visualization was rendered in black & white by Dr. Charles Frederickson, with computer-generated coloration by Saknarin Chinayote. Their website features more than 500 original images and impressions, sketched and scribbled during travels to 206 countries on our fave planet.