"My father says we only inherit debt./I say we inherit/the pollen carried by bees...the chorus of cicadas rattling the air/as if grief could be sung into joy."
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Read ๐๐๐ ๐ฝ๐๐๐ช๐ฉ๐ฎ ๐ค๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ฉ๐๐ข๐๐จ๐ข: https://t.co/LKT7VhhSZM
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#tmrissue15#ecojournal#ecopoetry#optimism
โDoes the eagle worry that someday/its nest would be destroyed?/Or does it focus on the salmonโs fin,/oscillating through the stream?โ
Read ๐๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ง๐ ๐ฟ๐ค๐๐จ๐ฃ'๐ฉ ๐พ๐๐ง๐ ๐ผ๐๐ค๐ช๐ฉ ๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐ง๐ช๐จ๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐ค๐ช๐๐๐ฉ๐จ by @JordanProchnow: https://t.co/psH9yCuD7i
#ecopoetry
Of the myriad flora in the world, ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฎ ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ฎ muses that she would be a moss.
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"I listen deeply to what it has to share. Unlearning is what I seek...so that I can listen with greater attention."
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Read ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช ๐ฌ๐๐ง๐ ๐ ๐ฅ๐ก๐๐ฃ๐ฉ: https://t.co/92uFFKJcZi
"How much grass do we need for greening our conscience?" ๐๐๐ต๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ ๐๐๐บ๐ฎ๐ฟ inquires, as environmental awareness is cautioned as only effective if people have enough to eat.
Read ๐๐ง๐๐จ๐จ ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ฎ๐ฌ๐๐๐ง๐: https://t.co/viLDDJGtNo
#ecojournal#grass#ecopoetry
๐ฆ๐ผ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฎ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ต ๐ ๐ฎ's stunning eco fiction of post-apocalyptic survivors making sense of environmental upheaval is imaginative and rich in world-building ๐
Read ๐ฝ๐ช๐ง๐ฃ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐: https://t.co/rdnKcRvyuW
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#thetigermothreview#tmrissue15#ecojournal#ecofiction
๐ฆ๐ฎ๐น๐๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ's poem is a response to how disaster has unfortunately become normalised in his community: "The roofs should not know/the weight of our mud-caked soles."
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Read ๐๐๐ ๐ง๐ค๐ค๐๐จ, ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฎ ๐ ๐ฃ๐ค๐ฌ: https://t.co/sNqciV531R
#ecopoetry#flood
"A flash flood came roaring down the mountain, wiping away their little house...the sight finally broke the grief that had been burying Althea's mother. Their life in the village was no more."
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Read ๐๐๐ ๐๐ก๐ค๐ค๐๐จ: https://t.co/Z7V4beJFg5
#tmrissue15#flood#loss
@xoakumbu's poem invokes African beliefs like Mami Wata (Queen of the Coast). It roils like the sea's discontent with mankind's intrusions, yet teems with nautical imagery that froths in the readers' minds ๐๐
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Read ๐ฟ๐๐ช๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ง๐จ ๐ค๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐๐: https://t.co/ZEHOLYo0LT
"Now a thousand children/are fleeing through my veins...If only Humanity/were by my side,/we could climb, step by step,/toward being a mountain."
Read ๐๐ฌ๐ค ๐ฅ๐ค๐๐ข๐จ ๐๐ฎ ๐๐๐ฏ๐๐๐ง ๐๐๐ง๐๐ข: https://t.co/FVMOMjazEj
#thetigermothreview#tmrissue15#ecojournal#war
๐ ๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ท๐ฑ๐ผ๐บ's eco-fiction explores the tenuous relationship between environmental truth and manufactured romanticism that is rampant in tourism.
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Read ๐ฝ๐ง๐ค๐ ๐๐ฃ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐ก๐จ: https://t.co/VQobhZW2Fp
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To grow is to scour, to purify, to hurt and to scar. The trunk of a papaya tree illuminates this truth of life in @3333sambhuram's poem: "scars on the lower trunk/where fruits and leaves once were."
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Read ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ฎ๐: https://t.co/IhwbzwUljE
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#ecojournal#ecopoetry#papaya
We love ๐๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ฎ ๐ข๐ป๐ธ๐ฎ๐ฟ's emotive piece about how the presence of plants bring solace, comfort, and a quiet dignity to aging.
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Read ๐๐ฎ ๐๐๐ฉ๐๐๐ง, ๐๐ค๐จ๐ฉ-๐จ๐ช๐ง๐๐๐ง๐ฎ: https://t.co/pgTNNMLviH
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#tmrissue15#ecojournal#ecopoetry#flora#ecofeminism
In ๐๐ฃ-๐๐๐ง๐, ๐.๐ฌ. ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ป๐ป urges compassion for urban birds: "we... impose on them/our best-practiced magic trick: vanishment...all just to save us the crushing, excruciating/cost of an inconvenient carwash."
https://t.co/fuNd9qOfbH
#tmrissue15#ecopoetry#urbanbirds
Echoing the Iban people's reverence for the rhinoceros hornbill, @vinita65 effuses "What is love but to see and not hold" her subject's "sun blade-beak/piano-keys wingspan".
Read ๐๐ค๐ซ๐ ๐๐ค๐๐ข ๐๐ค๐ง ๐ ๐๐ค๐ง๐ฃ๐๐๐ก๐ก: https://t.co/UL4uFguMeK
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#tmrissue15#hornbill
๐ก๐ฎ๐๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ผ ๐ ๐ฒ๐ถ-๐ฌ๐ถ's body of work carries a feminine, chthonic, spirit that is one-of-a-kind, and we are delighted for the artwork to grace the cover of Issue 15.
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Read ๐๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐ฉ ๐๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ค๐ง๐ฎ's prose poem: https://t.co/0HqRbLxAEJ
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#ecofeminism
Filmmaker ๐๐ฟ๐๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ฎ๐ด๐ฎ๐ป๐ผ๐ณ examines interconnectedness in the digital age "The microbes still believe/in symbiotic forms beyond the byte."
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Read ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ก๐๐ช๐ข ๐ฟ๐ง๐๐๐ข๐จ ๐ฝ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ฉ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐พ๐ก๐๐๐ ๐จ๐ฉ๐ง๐๐๐ข: https://t.co/CK2XD3Adhx
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#tigermothreview#web
Tending to nature binds the giver and the receiver in a sacred act; one that transcends loss and blithe landscaping.
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Read ๐๐๐๐ฃ ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช ๐๐ช๐ฉ ๐๐ค๐ฌ๐ฃ ๐ ๐ฉ๐ง๐๐, ๐๐ฉ ๐๐ง๐ค๐ฌ๐จ ๐๐๐๐๐ฃ: https://t.co/tdVG5znpgP
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#thetigermothreview#tmrissue15#ecojournal#urbanspaces
๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐ผ๐ธ๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐๐๐ผ๐ฐ๐ธ-๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐ผ๐ป fills our senses with the pastoral scenes of meadows and cornfields. Inviting and nurturing, "I dream of rooting/myself in this fertile ground".
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Read ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฃ ๐๐๐ก๐ก ๐๐๐ง๐ข: https://t.co/RbQiIfqPlj
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#tmrissue15#ecojournal
The shore along Changi Beach is a "threshold between worlds", a fragile and beautiful ecosystem that ripples and sways to its own rhythm but is threatened by land reclamation:
Read ๐ผ ๐๐ง๐ค๐ข๐๐จ๐ ๐๐ค ๐๐ง๐ค๐ฉ๐๐๐ฉ ๐๐๐๐ฉ ๐พ๐๐ฃ๐ฃ๐ค๐ฉ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ : https://t.co/LZVmD95oJh