tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149217012399643733.post2938956103844839820..comments2023-12-06T00:48:23.734-08:00Comments on Daily Writing Practice: Thursday September 19th, 2013Marchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14952331166517430843noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149217012399643733.post-35138867564662863452013-10-02T23:43:02.505-07:002013-10-02T23:43:02.505-07:00Greg - nah, I prefer the challenge of catching up ...Greg - nah, I prefer the challenge of catching up while you guys keep commenting. Plus it would be lonely here without you lot making things difficult for me :P<br /><br />Love this one. The final stanza is particularly excellent, but the whole thing really works so well together. Nicely done!Marchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14952331166517430843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149217012399643733.post-20520396050180816212013-09-20T01:11:57.146-07:002013-09-20T01:11:57.146-07:00Well done on starting catching up the comments aga...Well done on starting catching up the comments again. Perhaps we should all leave you alone for a week to give you a proper chance? :)<br />The harvest sounds like a good one, and the mini-vacation sounds like a fantastic idea! I'd quite like one myself... maybe I'll hide under my desk for ten minutes and pretend I can hear the sea.<br />That's an interesting tale of growing up: well defined boundaries, although it sounds like it wasn't the easiest thing in the world to cope with! I'd probably have tried what Neil did too!<br /><br /><b>Zero hour</b><br />A sudden chill –<br />Is it just cold air or has<br />the long winter fallen at last?<br />The news was three days ago,<br />there's been no signal since.<br />Only endless static,<br />Electromagnetic<br />fallout.<br /><br />Aimee's sick<br />with worry that the plants<br />won't grow. She stands and rants,<br />her fists clenched, her face red.<br />Trying to hide the dread<br />of endless static.<br />Electromagnetic<br />fallout.<br /><br />Historians,<br />with the luxury and the power<br />to look back, will call it Zero Hour.<br />When angry men ignored their fears<br />And set us back a thousand years.<br />And in the endless static<br />find Electromagnetic<br />fallout.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com