Pollution Poems | Examples

forget not king warning

forget not king warning demonic 
danger incremental gradual liberal
nor genocide joey precedent 
nor dispensation donny cleansing
oligarchy authority false choice
g ford greater more effective evil
empire merrikka people subjects 
rejects will well being ignore
dream fruition arriving never more
guard commons free speech farmed
private sector extract boiled ready frog
politic elect thesbian culture war
tonies grammies oscars divide conquer
chopping chomsky consent manufacture
wealth income earth labor rare birth
despair lament pay rent higher 
proper response race both blatant
subtle kinder gentler totalitarian 
all planet people planted excluded
possible power economic politic
remote hemmed chemical psycho
social escape routes addict dead ends
abundant narrate nook craney cross
every color four bid three finger all pro
nouns nun since seeing poking stabbing
lids bins laden all gore beat rhyme
tapdancing tintinabulation embedded
robot tune ruin seesaw sooth soul life
sleep endless bow dark nestle loud
selah

Premium Member I like to swim, but how'd I get here?

For replacement election maps
Texas jumps when Don’s finger snaps
If he keeps control
Trump’s gold toilet bowl
Is where we'll all swim when he craps
Form: Limerick


Premium Member The Final Steps

Rear the Axe
Drop the Blade
Chop the Tree
Clear the Glade

Dry the Tears
Hide the Blade
Stab the Sky
Fry the Shade

Mute the Sun 
Burn the Sand
Spurn the Moon
Shoot the Band

Scrape the Grass
Oil the Sand
Soil the Seas
Rape the Land
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Origin



The Origin - Oloibiri

We all poise 
ushering in 
our plots, stage and play 
ushering in the birth of a phase 
Where all 
have become fazed 
A place of fame 
now erased 
a lurking abode 
marrying a mirage into reality 
smeared with a tainted face 
faux words 
and dangling puppets 
rotating with the stale wind
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Earth

Earth, a planet under siege,
Longing to be freed.

She was once free as the wind.
That is, until in came sin.

Earth is not  realing and deteriating
Merely because of man's abuse.

And she's not crying from overuse;
But rather, she longs to be redeemed;

To be restored, revived and renewed.
Indeed, her time for such is overdue.

Environmental reveiws will not restore.
Decellerating commerce will not cleanse

The earth of its polution and toxins
Any more that the blowing winds.

Earth patiently waits to be made new.
But the restoration must first come

From its many  waywardly inhabitants.
Like mortals, earth longs for change.

Until then, we wait with prayer, patience,
And live our best with love and purity.
Form: Couplet


July 4th

Reusable coffee cup with a metal straw
My small pathetic efforts
Are covered by filth 
As fumes of rich suited bastards
cover our longings in excrement 
Snatch the medicaid from your dying Grandmother's mangled hand
To fill another yacht 
With fake breasts and Botox filled martini glasses 
The masses are happy it's July 4th
But I can only hope for change 
As Our rights are taken away 
Our only crime was being born
Without a silver spoon to pave the way

Premium Member The World is Bleeding

The world is bleeding, from the inside out,
with a punctured heart ready to burst.
Call Universal O- blood donors. 
They may be able to save the most first.

A rain of tears cleanses streets from the red-
stained, dripping sheet-shrouds oozing children's blood.
While flesh is shredded from human bone by-
natural forces of wind, earth, and flood.

The world lies, wounded, bleeding in our E.R.
being diligently worked on for life.
Are we the Universal O- blood donors?
Or murderers armed with a deadly knife?

Father, we pray your kind Mercy draws nigh.
As many each day will bleed out and die.


Type O Negative	O negative is the most common blood type used for transfusions when the blood type is unknown.  This is why it is used most often in cases of trauma, emergency, surgery and any situation where blood type is unknown.
Form: Sonnet

Premium Member WARMING WARNING

Our climate is warming
The speed is alarming
Could this be a warning
 
Our greenhouse gases rise
Polluting worldwide skies
Now comes a surprise

The planet is heating
From our carbon burning
And we’re still not learning

We aim for personal gain
And simply show no shame
As we play selfish game

But now we get the flack
Nature’s on the attack
The pendulum swings back
 
We’d enough for our need
But then we turned to greed
And made our planet bleed

We didn’t care tuppence
Ignoring common sense
Now we face consequence

Our climate is warming
The speed is alarming
Could this be a warning
Form: Rhyme

We Dont Deserve

We Don’t Deserve

I read the stories
see blood in the margins,
names etched in shame.
Man’s hand, steady with the knife,
shaking only when called to kindness.

History isn't history.
It's breath on the mirror.
It fogs up, then clears,
only to show us
the same haunted face.

We burn what we didn’t build.
Crush lives under flags
we barely understand.
Skin becomes a reason.
Love becomes a crime.
And faith,
once meant to lift,
becomes the rope and the fire.

Tell me
how did difference become danger?
How did colour, creed,
or simply being
become enough
to justify a bullet,
a cage,
a silence?

There are godless things
done in God's name.
Things that make the ground
want to close its mouth
and never speak of us again.
We are a blot,
a bruise on this planet,
spreading still.

The trees ask nothing.
The rivers give everything.
The sky forgives daily.
But we
we do not deserve
a single leaf,
a drop of rain,
a shaft of sun.

We are a cruelty
that dressed itself in kingship
and called it civilization.

Premium Member Sea Trash Begone

                                 Sea trash begone, as youth shall surge
                                 with their passion and devotion
                                 Debris where land and water merge
                                 Sea trash begone!

                                 Breakthrough solutions in motion
                                 ending plastic pollution purge
                                 Serene is a blue-green ocean
                               
                                 Unafraid to swim and submerge
                                 inheritors, high echelon
                                 Fallen baton cease and emerge
                                 Sea trash begone!
Form: Roundel

Planet in pluvial fluvial flux

Planet in flux…it sucks

No refuge..Scrooge rules..

Stooges subterfuge deluge..

Fossil fuel fools..

Poleaxes..then relaxes…

As the earth burns..

As it turns..on its axis..

***************
Us schmucks battling....

Puzzling...prattling clucks...

Aloof to proof....daft defiance..

Shucks the sleuth of science..

**************
Glower at their ivory tower..

Cruise ship trip fillip..

Dour baby boomer power..

******

Absurd herd..cans compliance

Uncouth trampling truth..

Nip & tucks alliance..

Mottled rucks…throttled petro bucks...

Plucks for retro reliance..

*******

Muzzling…weasel hatchets meddling...

Diesel guzzling trucks..

Saluting high falutin polluting

Pander to propaganda pedaling..

Ratchets up our dander…

Open the ruddy window!

Have a bloody gander!

FIRE

River makes its final clunk
Between
Hills
Rolling boulders like turtle shells
Empty of their mouths and hearts

River bent
Flailing legs and neck
No longer reflects
The sun and moon
From water’s absence down its back.

Turns her terrible brittle head
From me
Teeth gnashing on the spools of willow

To her memory
When mud was forest
Footsteps
Croaking with frogs and dazzled with dragonflies
Ringed in a halo of cold fog.

We are dying
Together
Not angels nor even demons

But conquering visitors from a desert
Who brought nothing but the leech of desert
With us
Covering the entire Earth with insatiable thirst
And hunger

Kings and Queens for a day
Destroyers
Of those ceremony drums
Of gods and plants animals and language

When we lived as One
Gift
Strummed through the harp of gratitude.

Now, I seek a forgiving signal
From perhaps a divine wave
Coming from the dying Mother

This way
You poor skinless fool

The fire shall burn behind you
The entire Earth and its people
Which is all the things that flutter

Crawl walk and sing

"An empty bowl
With a spoon beside you."

You'll get Yours -- Tooth for Tooth

12 when I wrote this, from the perspective of a mushroom.

My gills grasping at air, but the grass is not too far;
My scales glimmering stupidly to shine through watered tar.
And in the gaseous tarmac world, I shine here far too bright,
And oh, the air, too stale if for my gills to get it right.

I long to build a house and make a living off of sticks,
Press flowers to make bookmarks. Feather ink dips.
And for one day, to hear ... a knocking or a rattle
Of rats and pigeons at my door. To me, should they grapple

I wished to fly away with birds, claws ripping flesh and all
To find my new roots in the sky: frail, delicate, tall.
I wished to burrow in the ground when I must collapse.
I wish to hide me from the world. I wish for a relapse.

A tingle down my stem, my gills no longer pulchrify
My dirtied shine, my residue: I tell you, "eye for eye."
This vivid tarmac world around me, perfectly reflecting
How little you appreciated when we were worth defending.
Form: Couplet

Environmental Concerns

Ponder the old pestles and mortars
used at times in apothecaries,
older drug emporium quarters.

Some of the porous surface was shared
by grinding both mortar and pestle
ending up in medicines prepared.

Do today's microplastics alarm you?
Minute particles endanger us all;
microwavable repercussions? Whew!
Form: Tristich

Premium Member Doom's Date - Mar 5

Doomsday’s dismal dawn, in the deep distance, 
Is our dusk, the diadem of decadence;
Daunting and depthless, a dark and doleful dirge 
Deems this dungeon of demons due for death

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