Greg Gaul Poet Couplet

Don't Dare Ask

We had no hand in this rape of nature
Yet we will bear its full weight and measure
Can climate be sentenced to certain doom
Is there time to resolve its gruesome gloom

Don't dare ask us to deny climate change

We've dug a hole that we can't get out of
At the "climate mercy" from high above
Self-interest trumps the collective good
Tell the top players to do now what they should

Don't dare ask us to think or act short-term

Our little spades try digging us all out
As designer-suit dudes plow dirt round about
We dutifully sift through our own trash
So we make these moguls even more cash

Don't dare ask us to bow to huge profits

Those prominent peers, posers, pols and priests
They had their fair say and done their least
Fighting useless battles over oil sites
While we differ on clear-cut human rights

Don't dare ask us to reject world order

Elites hold the power and that is true
Puny results from what we folks can do
As much as we'd like to see it all stop
To fix this we must begin at the top

Don't dare ask us to back broken brokers

Seeing in stores all that shiny plastic
Vast plastic globs float in the Pacific
We drive plastic cars that are half the weight
With which green fuel is still under debate

Don't dare ask us to save our frail planet

Each ecosystem is interconnected
Rising like tides that are all effected
Now fires and storms rage behind a curtain
Weather is volatile and uncertain

Don't dare ask us to endanger species

Air, lands, waters hope for a better day
Some of earth's environs have lost their way
Without half our insects we must move on
The planet's trees are forever half gone

Don't dare ask us to fix this mega mess






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Sam Kauffman November 15, 2023 at 9:51 AM Amazing, Greg. So happy to see this on the winners list. Your lines flow like water in a stream and your rhyme scheme is very innovative, very original. You have the wonderful ability to express timely and important topics in a style that hits the mark every time giving me pause! Congratulations. So wonderful to see you in the soup again. Blessings to you! Greg Gaul November 16, 2023 at 9:09 AM Sam, I so appreciate your kind encouragement. I know it comes from within with a strong religious core. This issue plays on my mind that so many have been duped by the elites. It sadness me to see the general public take on this misdirected guilt. Blessings right back at ya.

Sara Kendrick November 14, 2023 at 1:08 PM Congratulations on this winning work in Robert's contest. Way to go. Thanks for sharing it with us, Sara K Greg Gaul November 16, 2023 at 9:18 AM Sara, I know and appreciate your work and commentary. But "Then" too, I know you get many compliments on your poetry. They comfort us during our private "winters".

Connie Marcum Wong April 26, 2022 at 3:06 AM Your words ring true on all levels Greg. Plastics, the bane of our future generations existence. We need to take our power back from the greedy and unscrupulous at the top. Blessings xxoo Greg Gaul April 27, 2022 at 12:46 PM Connie, it is so supportive to have you comment on this advocacy style poem. It's unusual structure and ranting voice makes me cautious as to its effectiveness. Your commentary helps a lot. Thank you.

David Kavanagh April 11, 2022 at 2:05 AM Don’t dare ask indeed Greg, it starts at the top and only goes up from there, it really is a big con job, but every king needs his scapegoats, after all that’s what we’re here for, brilliant thought provoking brutally honest poem, No conspiracy theory here, a Fave cheers David Greg Gaul April 11, 2022 at 3:56 AM Thanks David for your clear thinking. This is a global outrage.