
Playing with a word I learnt last year and thought might make a good poem title (& hopefully poem).
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solastalgia
The homesickness you have when you are still at home.
word & definition coined by Glenn Albrecht
Australian philosopher & Professor of Sustainability
that peculiar
form of distress
that envelopes us
in a misty kind
of claustrophobic
cling wrap
when we see our
homelands both
lived & idealised
lands which bring
peace simply by being
give us tranquility
remind us to breath
to hope to sit
quietly & still & just
when we feel those lands
callously destroyed
paddocks ploughed under
for another subdivision
megahardware store
or discount supermarket
or cut open for coal
or fracked set on fire covered in oil torn up by trucks
then
there is no solace
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