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Swarming For Global Warming

In the middle of the Universe, I stand 
Geared up to continue our deed
And since from our native planet, we have been banned
The two of us carry on at light speed

Zirck and I traveled afar from an orb called, Quoll
Where our planet has turned cold as ice
See, we couldn’t burn any more wood, oil, or coal
Due to our leader’s fake science advice

We looked over new galaxies for what it’s worth
For a planet that could share some spare heat
That’s when we were told about planet earth
That’s not as cold as our big old ice sheet

We traveled ten light years to the Milky Way
And saw earth had lots of spaceships swarming
We had no other choice than to join the fray
To absorb some of earth’s global warming

While at once I noticed that I stopped shivering
Zirck the sharp genius, hacked a satellite
Thus we observed the news they were delivering
And heard CNN state: earth just isn’t right

We learned that the U.S. wanted to stop burning
So that I said, “Great, here we go again.”
One more planet worried about comfy warming
And we knew what they’d propose, but when?

The next thing that we heard was an urgent report
Which we figured lacked all common sense
It was: since humans ate too much beef and pork
Their ozone was failing due to flatulence

Zirck thought we should tell the naïve people on earth
That global warming is just a huge scam
Made by greedy leaders who want to tax your worth
For carbon dues, while they buy jets and scram

Remember when gazing up at the starry sky
There may be aliens in mourning
For they’ve already endured that pilfering lie
Made by their leaders about global warming. 


For In the middle of the Universe, I stand contest

Copyright © | Year Posted 2015




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Date: 1/24/2016 5:52:00 PM
Nice! (Given the chance, Al Gore would burn your poem and tax you on the emissions.)
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Date: 12/11/2015 9:09:00 AM
Awesome write David, I enjoy your point of view.
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Date: 11/13/2015 1:22:00 AM
After the debacle of the Iraqi war, one would be need to be a fool to be led by the nose by government. This poem is a funny take on the subject.
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Date: 2/15/2015 11:12:00 AM
DAVID, Congratulations on your awesome win. ~Skat~
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Date: 2/9/2015 5:58:00 PM
G'day David... I think governments have run out of things to tax, so why not tax the air. If thirty years ago somebody said what was going to be taxed in the future, they would have been shot into outer space. Good message David - Lindsay
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Date: 2/9/2015 12:30:00 PM
I love how you made your universe poem a full on story! So very creative!
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Date: 2/9/2015 8:59:00 AM
David, a deep and profound write that truly makes one ponder, well done and thanks so much for visiting my poetry ~~
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