Emile Pinet Poet Quatrain

We Feign Surprise

Look around; Gaia is crying,
for whales and elephants dying.
Honeybee numbers are way down:
Gaia is crying; look around.

Plastic pollutes our world's oceans:
creating poisonous potions.
Despite organic substitutes,
our world's oceans; plastic pollutes.

Climate change, our future forecast,
was wrought by greed, present and past.
Today, global warming sounds strange;
our future forecast, climate change.

We've overfilled all our landfills
and cut down trees for our sawmills.
City garbage dumps are backfilled
all our landfills: we've overfilled.

We feign surprise while glaciers melt
at speeds not previously felt.
Because we choose to believe lies
while glaciers melt: we feign surprise.

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L Milton Hankins October 9, 2022 at 10:09 AM Thank you, thank you, Emile, for another reminder of what we are doing to our planet. So true. We have been hearing about it for over ten years, but all the sudden changes surprise us. I really appreciate your dedication and doing what you can to call attention to it repeatedly. It is so important. Keep up the good work! L Milton Hankins October 9, 2022 at 1:23 PM Oh, I wholeheartedly agree with you, and I suspect they'll be wondering why we did so little about it in time to make a difference. Emile Pinet October 9, 2022 at 11:05 AM Thanks, Milt, I fear the next generation is due for a reality check and a rude awakening, my friend, Emile.