Lough Neagh Has Gone Green

From agricultural waste and pesticides
seeping from the land into the water.

And also from local government no longer having
a dedicated department to look after all the waters,
all the loughs and rivers, in the modern N. Ireland. 

This lough was formed by the giant Fin McCool
supposedly scooping out the the earth and throwing it
at a rival Scots giant, and missing but creating
the Isle Of Man between Ireland and Scotland.
I wonder what angry green giant, what driven reformer,
can restore the waters to health and fitness for fish,
and for human swimming in? And when can they start?       

 

Thought For The Christmas Sales

Because whilst the shops fill with tat to buy
to 'celebrate', we still have to explain why
our planet is dying, before it explains
it's forthcoming exit, taking us with it,
with weather we can't deny is toxic.

Looking Forward to When We Won't Be Able To See Back

But then again a beneficiary of industry
with enough hindsight might point out
to an agriculturalist how 10,000 years
earlier their culture supplanted hunter
/gatherer societies which with their modest
numbers always left the world a rich place
and how much agriculture quenched that.