Glacier Visitation!

Vaud alpine glacier loses grip

As fate decreed that it should hit

A sleepy haven quite deserted:

Thus, human death toll is averted.

Nine million tons of rocks and snow

Engulf a village far below!

 Grim disaster* caught on screen

Turns muddy brown Swiss valley green…

 

One person unaccounted for…

Swelling lake on valley floor…

With debris its river dammed …

Global warming threat to hand!

 

Blatten – most of it destroyed;

Act of God? Insurance void?

Such avalanches shadows cast

Authorities must now act fast!

 

New homeless left to count the cost

As Mother Nature wins the toss;

A metaphor both apt and harsh

On tragedy in mountain pass …

(c) Poet in the woods 2025

* on 28th May, 2025

Aerial view of Blatten after the landslide

showing flooded Lonza river ...