30 Days of Haiga 2022: Honey and Peace

 

For greedy corporations and corrupt governments, it will be business as usual until it’s business no more because the sea has risen too high and all the bees are dead.

I would like the world to switch from fossil fuels to green energy.

Let the sun and wind heat our homes and recharge electrical batteries for our vehicles.

Let us make trains a viable means of transportation again so there is less reliance on automobiles.

Before I depart this world, I’d like to see the watermelon snow.

I’d like to insure the safety of the seed vault in Svalbard.

I’d like to save the sea ice, preserving the life of polar bears and penguins.

I’d like, too, to plant the sweet alyssum that smells like honey and peace.

we guard what we love

why do we not love the world?

it's our only home.

144 Words

notes

I created the Haiga with Pixlr.com using a free image by Peter Fischer on Pixabay. 

https://pixabay.com/photos/icebear-penguin-arctic-antarctic-3277930/

You are welcome to use the Haiga, but please credit Cara Hartley/Ornery Owl and provide a link back to this blog.

I used the following prompts in creating the Haibun.

https://dversepoets.com/2022/09/12/prosery-when-it-comes-to-katherine-riegel/

Write a piece of flash fiction or other prose of up to or exactly 144 words, including the given line from the poem.

“I’d like, too, to plant the sweet alyssum that smells like honey and peace,” from the poem What I would like to grow in my Garden.

https://earthweal.com/2022/09/12/earthweal-weekly-challenge-a-celebration-of-life-for-ice/

For this week’s challenge, contribute to a celebration of life for ice. 

https://girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com/2022/09/11/sundays-six-sentence-story-word-prompt-229/

Prompt word: Guard

I hope my Haibun measures up to the challenges presented, more or less.

~Ornery Owl Has Spoken~

Free use image from Open Clipart Vectors