For dVerse Poets Pub where Melissa is our host.
Today we are being inspired by this selection.
Melissa asks us to choose one of the paintings and let it be our muse. Additionally, we should use the epitaph as a launch point to describe where the painting takes us.
Launch: light and truth of painting
Before the Smoke
The rabbit pauses,
nose lifted to scents carried on an unseen wind.
Carrots wait, their bright promise untouched.
Leaves still whisper beneath the tree.
Behind the wall, the world has not yet learned the language of fire.
No sirens.
No ash.
Only the fragile illusion that tomorrow will look like today.
I wonder how many wild hearts are running tonight,
searching not for food,
but for a place where the flames cannot follow.
The last numbers I heard today was 320.000 people is evacuated in France and Spain because of the fires.
How much of the wildlife has been killed these past days...?
it's heartbreaking.
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With love, coffee, poetry, and stardust,
— Maggie The Afterlove Voice 💫
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