Get Your Premium Membership

Summer Solstice 2019 Part 2

approximating 7.5 x 1018, or seven quintillion, five hundred quadrillion grains. This estimation courtesy of Gwendolyn Powell, High School from Presentation of Mary Academy (2018 graduating class) responding to an inquiry posted on website https://www.quora.com/How-many- grains-of-sand-are-there-on-Earth-and-how-many- stars-are-there-in-the-universe Answered April 15, 2018. Such minutiae less significant within the realm of present day *****sapiens, whose lives less linkedin with phenomena affecting life on this oblate spheroid, (which could come to a crashing halt predicated on burgeoning human population jeopardizing sustainable planet presuming industrial paradigm prevails, thence man/ woman kind will unwittingly trumpet, and or sound claxon (ex post facto), while warming temperatures melt glaciers, asper huge popsicles drowning multitudinous habitats courtesy of violent meteorologic cataclysms, where Noah ark will be big enough to save majority of creatures, and (wherein no art of the deal) savvy enough to wall off sky high tidal Katrina and the waves, then nature will (make a killing) relishing tidying Atlas sized tureen if necessary applying pledged finishing touches repurposing third rock for another species slated to inherit pseudo tabula rasa after Campbells, and broth hers detox polluted primordial soup i.e. once cleansed of poisons, thus...I condense my Green New Deal spiel!

Copyright © | Year Posted 2019




Post Comments

Poetrysoup is an environment of encouragement and growth so only provide specific positive comments that indicate what you appreciate about the poem.

Please Login to post a comment

A comment has not been posted for this poem. Encourage a poet by being the first to comment.


Book: Reflection on the Important Things