July 25, 2012: "Poets want to stop River Shannon 'plunder' with new collection" [Old River Shannon Research Group - Facebook]
BEYOND ALL MEASURE
By Carolyn Marra
Dedicated to all who are trying to save the River Shannon.
Threads dangling,
God's
river hanging
on the
words of a committee --
flimsy
plans, such a pity!
If
they'd only listen to the
men of
the river --
algal
blooms to make one shiver
will
spread with Nature's cry suppressed
as city
men of means, well-dressed,
seize
water from the country folk,
around
their necks place Dublin's yoke,
and
watch the Shannon bleed her treasure
beyond
all man-made, reckless measure.
Copyright 2012, 2013, 2014 Carolyn Marra.
Published in the booklet, Anthology for a River, edited by Teri Murray, 2012. See link above.
"Has Anyone Asked the Fish?" - by Carolyn (June 21, 2012)
"Who Needs Beauty?" - by Carolyn (July 14, 2012)
"Embracing the Endangered River Shannon" - by Carolyn (September 18, 2012)
"Attention: Environmentalists, Hydrologists, and All Who Love Things 'Green'" - by Carolyn (October 29, 2012)
"Lough Derg: A Bird's-Eye View of the River Shannon" - by Carolyn (December 18, 2012)
"Murmuration (!) on Lough Derg (on Ireland's River Shannon)" - by Carolyn (May 13, 2013)
"In the Millions: Wasted Litres, Wasted Euros" - by Carolyn (August 6, 2013)
"The Sanity of Beauty" - by Carolyn (March 18, 2014)
*******************************************************************
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
River Shannon Protection Alliance
River Shannon Protection Alliance: Why we say the Dublin Region Water Supply Project is a bad scheme
CURRENT NEWS (Beginning February 2014):
"Dublin to get water from River Shannon by 2020" - Fionnan Sheahan Group Political Editor – Published 12 May 2014, Independent.ie
"Fixing pipes could pull plug on Shannon plan," Herald.ie, February 17, 2014
ON-SITE:
River Shannon Protection Alliance - Derg Branch
**********************************************************
When I began this blog in 2011, I wrote under my real name, Carolyn. Then, I liked the sound of "Daisies" because it went so well with the blog title. I switched over to the pen name of "Daisies" for a while. But, all things considered, it seemed simpler and more commonsensical to use my own name.
So, here I am, the same Carolyn, the only author of this blog there has ever been. :)
No comments:
Post a Comment