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Feb- 23- 2026
Cosmic Death Poetry Contest
Sponsor- Seth Pina
~ Placed Fifth in the Premiere Poetry Contest~
Is Death So Near
From the far end of the cosmos
I looked down searching for my home,
the earth, once a magical land,
against my expectations,
was telescoped into view
as an arid land, sterile and desiccated,
with no flowing blue waters.
Trees were felled down like torn pages
Some stood with yellowing leaves
Not dew, but tears dripped down from their tips,
as if struggling through the last lap of autumn.
Some stayed naked devoid of foliage
as if just made it through the winter.
Songbirds no more sang.
Dusty soot filled the air.
Sun- stood a flaming inferno
Day scorched in its violent fury
Despair greeted me as a prologue to the day
and ended with an epilogue of the night
All I saw was the comatose of life
All I heard was the faint whisper of a dying earth!
The signs are written everywhere;
in the melting icecaps, in polluted water bodies
in the exhausted breath of woodlands
and in the toxic air one is fated to breathe.
If we are careful, we can still preserve our earth.
Guard it, not as masters, but as guests,
who stay here as sojourners
with a thought that we have to vacate it soon
for posterity to give enough room.
It should never become a bane for them
but a boon, tended with love and care.
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