Dark Sky in Daylight

30 Poems in 30 Days
Write a poem in which a similar or identical phrase 
is repeated three or more times throughout the poem.

Once upon a time
this was a lush continent
but that was long ago.
Now we have drought.

Our dry inland “outback”
dry like this for centuries
became that way long ago.
Now we have desert.

Today there’s a haze
thickening the whole eastern sky.
Wind and fire outback yesterday,
now we have dust.

We have it here
far from the red centre,
blown all that way yesterday.
Now we have darkness.


Written and posted as it's happening, 
Wed. 23rd, 12:37 in the afternoon.