Sonnet 18 New Landscapes Poem by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares

Tides of fish bearing their accusing looks
Periodically sadden our landscape
Because human venoms crueler than hooks
To their essential flood often escape.

Floating their way toward uncertain sea
They contaminate birds with their poison
Which in those not yet dead is hard to see
Further spreading this death withour reason.

The turbid waters make it to the main
To join more sewage and also crude oil
Coming from spills that claim these days domain
And with ugly rainbows their glimpses foil.

No more romantic, the beach welcomes those
With tarry feet who their disgust disclose.
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