Haze

• Bluesky_Liz

  16 Sep 06, 18:01

  Haze
  
  The smell of ash:
  molecules freed
  from a burning
  rainforest
  somewhere south,
  assail our noses,
  claw at our throats
  and dry our eyes.
  
  Somewhere,
  a farmer holds
  a flaming torch
  ...............to set
  more trees on fire.
  
  HeÂ’ll have a smoking
  patch of fertile soil
  and for the rest of us,
  a choking aerosphere.
  
  
• dsnake1

  17 Sep 06, 22:21

  an environmentalist poem!
  every year around this time, it always happens.
  
  like your use of "aerosphere" instead of atmosphere.
• blue_blue_bedsheet

  18 Sep 06, 23:12

  Nice one Liz!
• Bluesky_Liz

  19 Sep 06, 17:10

  Thanks guys.
  
  I am currently having a nose infection that wouldn't go away and I think it was started by the haze. It doesn't make me feel sick (I don't have a fever or anything) but I have a bad sore throat and a stuffed nose every morning. Been given medicine, but I don't feel better or worse with it.
• LinYu

  19 Sep 06, 17:11

  haze is back?
  
• Bluesky_Liz

  19 Sep 06, 19:48

  It was back for a while. But all the rain lately sort of cleared the air.
• expiringpoet

  20 Sep 06, 00:51

  Originally posted by Bluesky_Liz:

  Thanks guys.
  
  I am currently having a nose infection that wouldn't go away and I think it was started by the haze. It doesn't make me feel sick (I don't have a fever or anything) but I have a bad sore throat and a stuffed nose every morning. Been given medicine, but I don't feel better or worse with it.

  Ouch! Sounds awful! Try taking cold ginger-lemon drink for the sore throat. You can get those sachets for the ginger drink, and just squeeze lemon/honey. It worked for my stubborn sore-throats/coughs. They taste great too!
• Bluesky_Liz

  20 Sep 06, 08:58

  I will try that. Thanks EP!