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Extinction Poems - Poems about Extinction

Extinction Poems - Examples of all types of poems about extinction to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for extinction.
Hope is Dope
...I don't know if God is Dead or Alive. But I do know that I'm not yet. And if you're reading this Neither are you. I don't know if I can change your mind Or enrich your heart. But I do know ......Read the rest...
Categories: extinction, hope,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member NO RED LIGHT DO WE SEE
...What reckless joyride we humans are on, For we know not what greets us at the end. With brain-washed minds we need not comprehend. So in ignorance we just speed along. We tell ourselves all’s wel......Read the rest...
Categories: extinction, destiny,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member That Was Then, This Is Now
... "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" George Santayana. The American Revolutionary War was The 13 colonies' war for independence. Their beliefs and resolve were so ......Read the rest...
Categories: extinction, america, time,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Aurora Dances
... by c.geeplay By the time I caught my breath and understood the significance of what I had just witnessed, it felt as though my alarm was an insignificant fear carried by the surging......Read the rest...
Categories: extinction, earth, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member FAMILY LOVE EQUILIBRIUM
...FAMILY. LOVE. EQUILIBRIUM A pivotal point In this transformational journey Life is all about family and love. Art of seeing both s......Read the rest...
Categories: extinction, family, home, identity, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Wounded Sigh
...Under flaming intimate heartbeat Rhythm of the descent moon's sight Velvet twilight grayness vision of night. Still-life far away from the nearest street Under the limbs of a tall hollow reject......Read the rest...
Categories: extinction, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
king oskar sardiner
...A Brisling (King Oscar sardines) I opened a tin of sardines in olive oil for supper Headless and nicely packed, except for one that had a head and was alive. I put the live one in a glass jar; ......Read the rest...
Categories: extinction, america, animal, arabic, beach,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member A Bird's-eye View
...I watch the world and the maddening crowd As I float by on a cumulus cloud High on my perch, all this sadness I see I dream of the things, the things that should be A bright pinnacle of all of ......Read the rest...
Categories: extinction, earth, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Journey To Reality
...The world we let die not just of ourselves Personal devotion to existence being Trees fall, extinction of life once was Like a plague, our making our own destruction Life of new generation we fo......Read the rest...
Categories: extinction, character, identity, image, perspective,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member SAVE THE MORIBUND LUNGS OF THE EARTH
... Biosphere's tropical respiratory rainforests are on the verge of extinction, the exclusive reservoir of biodiversity, the Congo Basin is shrinking rapidly. Deforestation dehydrates the c......Read the rest...
Categories: extinction, earth, environment, pain, planet,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Change One Thing
... Written: March 04, 2024 For Tom Woody Contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If there was one thing I could rearrange, In this vast and mysterious range. I woul......Read the rest...
Categories: extinction, change,
Form: Rhyme
S P A C E AND ME
...S P A C E AND ME In the seas of seas swirling in my mind I find myself alone in an ocean of space Nothing but void surrounds me As far as my soul can see Can our life’s breath be the soul ......Read the rest...
Categories: extinction, light, me, space,
Form: Free verse
Etty's Pen
...My heart failed a few times again today, but each time it came back to life. This is no time for poets and philosophers. *** It is strange that in such a short time a person can come to feel as mu......Read the rest...
Categories: extinction, courage, dedication, eulogy, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You Know It's Bad
...you know it's bad when your guardian angel runs I often wonder how quiet is it right before the end that brief pause just before extinction the universe takes a double-take in disb......Read the rest...
Categories: extinction, deep, imagery, psychological, scary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Earth Eulogy
... Earth Eulogy By Mark D. Stucky She was a good planet, put to death in her prime by a pandemic of people. Homo-sapiens was a disease with mutating and metastasizing ......Read the rest...
Categories: extinction, death, earth, environment, planet,
Form: Free verse

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